Ok, I read the old thread. Nice conversation, everybody.
It annoyed me that they spent so little time entertaining other killers
But dinner parties for killers are so hard to organize.
The thing about other killers is that there really is no plausible alternative, except for some random serial killer, and then you'd need to figure out why Jay made absolutely everything up if he wasn't trying to cover up his own involvement in one way or another (unless Jay was in league with the random serial killer, randomly). As I recall, they did chase down some leads about an alternative possible killer but it didn't pan out or the trail went cold, right?
You have to forgive SK the sort-of meh finish; she had a unique opportunity to do some long-form journalism but she had to produce a season of podcasts within a year or so. I'm sure she wasn't happy about it. But it isn't as if had she waited three months the whole case would have blown wide open.
3.1 is exactly what I said in 12.1 of the original thread. Oh well.
They didn't really entertain narratives of how Adnan and Jay could have done the murder later in the day. She spends so much time obliterating the 2:36 phone call, which fine. Done. So maybe they did it at 6 pm? Or the next day? (unlikely, but still)
I don't think the final episode had aired yet, in the last thread, but there is a semi-plausible serial killer mentioned in the last ten minutes when they finally bring The Innocence Project back in.
I mean, the killer sounds like a great fit, it's just a long shot as life goes.
Oh, right, so it's not so much the trail went cold as the production schedule ran out. It's weird to me that Serial seems totally uninterested in following-up on the case, via updates or a sequel season or whatever, when there are so many unanswered questions and so much continuing interest (e.g., the sub-Reddit, which is cuckoo-bananas, and Radhia's podcast).
And SK was explicitly not interested in a tidy narrative - in the old thread there's a link to an interview where she's condescending towards us sheeple who want our murder-mysteries to come with a bow on them. But whatever, it's a freaking murder-mystery, where's my bow?