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“This could have been interesting and the first episode was good but I couldn’t finish the second one- it got increasingly graphic. That was overkill.”
Oracle of Wassup via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/21/24
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“So but potential; the storytelling, narration, and terrible acting ruined this one :(”
KierstenFaith via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/10/24
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“Super boring presentation. The audio is annoying. It sounds like every couple of minutes she is far away from the microphone like she’s moving around”
Tracey Hawthorne via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/24/24
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“Bit too perverse for my taste, didn’t finish”
Erinmky via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/06/24
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“Can y’all get Ashley flowers to narrate and tell this story. The narrator’s voice is awful, makes the story really hard to get through episodes. The person that voices Claudia sounds so scripted, fake and not a good reenactment. They’ll play real audio evidence but won’t clarify what was said....”Read full review »
asklewoqskhf via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/17/24
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“The cheese of the voice actors making things unintentionally funny was too high to hurdle. Couldn’t finish. Seemed like interesting subject matter so pretty bummed.”
Bgisurja via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
05/08/24
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“Good grief. Such an important story to be told and you’ve turned off yet another listener. I suppose I could save this for the nights I can’t fall asleep - I’m sure the monotonous, drab voice of the narrator would help quite a lot. I have to wonder if this was written by AI?”
MOBCBA via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
04/27/24
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“The story isn’t that riveting to warrant an exclusive. The person’s voice is very…Elizabeth Holmes….”
NBSB2020 via Apple Podcasts ·
Australia ·
04/26/24
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“Interested in the subject matter but I can’t get past the super monotone narrator and repetitiveness- it sounds like it was written by AI.”
Kgzigxitsogxoyd via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
04/12/24
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“Good subject but podcast is un-exciting. Repeated same storyline over and over. Dragged on and felt abusive. I finally skipped all episodes after 3 to get to ‘Justice’ and I didn’t even finish that. Why? Bcz it was repetitive and boring and anti climactic.”
jil hipsley via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
04/07/24
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“How does someone present this information and it’s boring? Boring, boring, boring”
amandaja via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/30/24
“The storytelling is really poor. Reading transcripts with actors is not storytelling. And the inclusion of the audio of someone self harming in order to torture and manipulate a family member was gross and gratuitous. At least for how long they let it carry on. There’s no need to listen to that...”Read full review »
AnonERM89 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/21/24
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“too many actors it’s confusing . difficult to understand context !”
jeffcooz1239 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
03/11/24
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“Bet it’s a good story but you can’t tell”
Slammer73956 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
03/04/24
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“Nice work, loved it!”
catemcaran via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
02/20/24
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“Great presentation of this podcast. Keep doing what you’re doing,”
Mullyman2 via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
02/09/24
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“I tried listening to this, but it’s terribly boring, monotone narrator, and bad actors.”
AmandaClo73 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
01/25/24
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“This could be a very interesting story but it is boring to listen to.”
HCM29 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
01/11/24
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“I made it through 1.5 episodes before having the pull the plug. The production quality is poor, the script boring and painful to listen to, and the volume of the advertisements is ridiculous. Not sure how these poor kids were enticed to behave like this, but this depiction just re-victimizes them...”Read full review »
nelundberg via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
12/31/23
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“So interested in this, however I am so bored. So monotone. Not great”
gonefishcaking via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/21/23
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Not even into vid games! via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
11/04/23
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“This podcast is awful. So incredibly boring and poorly edited.”
JTay8126 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/30/23
“Reading this story in the story “ The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence” is more informative and more professional telling of the story of Larry Ray and the cult he developed at Sarah Lawrence College. This podcast production is terrible from start to finish, on virtually every level.
Technical...”Read full review »
Hunterhikes via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/25/23
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“Having already watched the documentary “Stolen Youth”, I was loosely familiar with this story. Listening to this podcast has me asking the same question, “how?””
Insane Trainer via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/23/23
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“How did they manage to make this literally unlistenable? The actors were painful to listen to. Idk if they thought a lot of screaming would make it more dramatic but it just makes it harder to listen to. This is such good material, but this podcast butchered it.”
jebdoe via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/20/23
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“I have empathy for the victims in this case, but having their testimonies read by actors made them unsympathetic. Also it sounds like the narrator on this series is trying really hard to impersonate what a Serious Journalist might sound like. I couldn’t listen past episode 4.
What a shame...”Read full review »
Eli W. via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/18/23
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“Interesting content but the narration and “acting” were terrible. Did a search and found better content on this story.”
embersz via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/12/23
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“Had to turn it off after 10 minutes. Terrible narration and acting.”
Rueby25 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/10/23
“This was so unbelievable and while I realize this is a true story, this is just stupid. I feel no empathy for the complete stupidity and lack of reasoning every one of these college kids demonstrated to get here. I’m no world would I have even entertained the thought of a parent moving in while...”Read full review »
jordds___ via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/10/23
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“I don’t know if this is the whole podcast, but the first part is one woman speaking in monotone non stop. I listen to podcasts to go to sleep, but the sound was too disturbing.”
Mediahog via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
10/07/23
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“Best host, best voice actors. Lol moments such as “He made us get up real early … like 9 or 10!” 😂 The woman playing the insufferable pickme should get a Podcast 🏆for Best Milennial Vocal Fry (she’d beat out the Morbid women!)
This story is just incredible. It’s hard to believe people could be...”Read full review »
genxorcist via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
09/04/23
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“This sounded like an interesting story, but the narration is monotonous and irritating and the acting is ridiculous. It’s hard to believe a group of people could be so dense. If a college roommate had said to me, “hey, my dad is moving into our dorm for awhile”, I would have moved out...”Read full review »
Marlowe94 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
08/12/23
“Interesting story and it’s well-told. However, it contains actual audio of the victims screaming as they are being psychologically and physically tormented. The story is compelling, but the audio was disturbing and unnecessarily anxiety-provoking (triggering, even, and I don’t use that word...”Read full review »
AnonymousFemaleReviewer via Apple Podcasts ·
Canada ·
08/05/23
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“I recommend watching the docuseries on Hulu. Unfortunately this podcast coverage of it is done super cheesy and sounds amature.”
Sweeteaaa via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/28/23
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“I can’t handle listening to the male voice actor. It’s ridiculous. How stupid are these kids and their parents!”
Katiej7 via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/28/23
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“The voices. Oi. Lots of vocal fry and bad voice acting. This could’ve been great. Feels cheap and gimmicky to decide to dramatize this instead of a deep dive with psychologist or just ask the victims. I thought at first they were protecting the victims but turns out the victims have been telling...”Read full review »
serenasylvester via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/26/23
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“I really wanted to hear this story because it sounds so fascinating. Unfortunately it will not be with this podcast. Why the bad acting? Just tell the story! Once the girl started screaming at the top of her lungs in episode 2, I decided that was enough for me. Too bad because Wondery podcasts...”Read full review »
Niki_TR via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/26/23
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“I’m left with all questions and no answers… How on earth did this middle-age clown get privileged college elites under his “coercive control” without possessing any of the usual characteristics of cult leaders (e.g., charming, persuasive, visionary, attractive, magnetic, intelligent, etc). As...”Read full review »
Xinaeve via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/23/23
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“Don’t mind her voice like other reviewers but she uses inappropriate analogies. The innocence project? Mexican cartel drug trafficking? Not trying to minimize the trauma but she’s got no self awareness and the bad analogies make sympathy more difficult. These were not children being shipped on...”Read full review »
sarahandpiper via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/19/23
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“Interesting story kept me engaged, but the narrator’s voice is grating! Story not fully fleshed out, and acting is meh.”
poeticedda via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
07/10/23
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“The narrators voice is loud and grating while voice actors and clips vary from whispers to low volume to vocal fry, then bounce back to loud and grating.”
riotgirlj via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
06/26/23
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“I’m cannot get through this first ep…her voice😳”
Rach L.G. via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
06/21/23
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“Didn’t find the narrators voice a barrier at all, like a lot of the other reviews say (I’m British for context, in case that makes a difference!)”
Shiv1190 via Apple Podcasts ·
Great Britain ·
06/18/23
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“So insane I can’t listen . The narrator has an annoying voice just can’t listen past episode two .”
Velvetjml via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
06/18/23
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“I couldn’t get through the first episode. The acting and narration are horrible. Fortunately, I found a documentary streaming about this case. The story is crazy. A traditional true-crime podcast would have been great.”
.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,. via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
06/18/23
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“I am so glad I didn’t pay the subscription to listen to this. I was looking forward to learning more about this story, but after the second episode, I can’t listen any longer.”
DGCPat via Apple Podcasts ·
United States of America ·
06/17/23
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