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veen  ·  2796 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Anyone listening to S-Town?

Finished it today. While I definitely enjoyed it, I can just as easily imagine people hating it. I liked that it showed the raw emotions and complexity of the people involved. It felt way more like a meandering character study than a murder mystery to me. It was definitely moving, but I'm pretty sure that that mileage may vary.

Some things I didn't like were the parts he (Brian, not John) chose to talk or not talk at length about - I, for one, would have loved more on the clock maker friends and their relations to him, or even about the clocks themselves. I thought it lacked structure, if it weren't for the twist I would have stopped after the second episode. And I could not unhear the narrators tendency to talk like he could cry at every second? Each sentence he ended a bit shrill and higher pitched. It was a bit annoying.