let me count the useless tangents...
first this isnt true. a boy murdered his mother, that much is true, but thats about where the "true" in this "true crime" ends. its all fictional. i had been listening to this mostly as background while crafting so i wasnt really pay very much attention past episode 1 which hooked me, then i kept forgetting what the point was, and it was episode 5 i believe when i heard all of 4 sentences (i counted, there 4 distinct sentences) explicitly about Tommy, the apparent subject of this podcast. instead, i heard about ben franklin, almanacs, the jersey devil, death during childbirth that may or may not be real, the history of the town library, an analysis of a robert frost poem, the roman practices around the winter solstice, some musings about paganism, and...where was i again? anyway, we glaze right over his sports team all but encouraging disordered eating behaviors, in an episode focused entirely on school wrestling theres no talk of head injuries or how sports related injuries can impact adolescents whos brains are still developing. it MUST be demon possession. a priest said it was possible one time i think so its fact, right? the depiction, however i cannot vouch for his realism since this podcast just throws facts and fiction in together, of Tommy hurting the boy wrestling then becoming very distraught and upset, seemed like the perfect time to consider how his mental health played into this. but no. we just talk about fictional nightmares with no idea how those assumptions are made or where those ideas came from. i only tuned back in this week as i thought 7 was the end and i was excited that possibly 8 would redeem this and discount all the possession nonsense but it just leaned further into it all going so far as the confirm that this 14 yr old boy who (supposedly? maybe? is there a citation for this?) stole some spooky books from a library sucessfully performed some demon summoning ritual. this is disgusting. it's disrespectful to the family of the murder victim, its disrespectful to the child suffering from pain he cannot explain to any of us who took his own life.Read full review »
brolene413 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 07/23/21
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