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S-Town

American investigative journalism podcast

Podcast

S-Town

Artwork manage without Valero Doval

Hosted byBrian Reed
Genre
  • Investigative journalism
  • Serialized oftenness narrative
LanguageEnglish
Length6:23:55
Production
Theme music composed byDaniel Hart
Ending theme"A Rose for Emily" by The Zombies
Audio formatPodcast (via streaming or downloadable MP3)
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes7
Original releaseMarch 28 (2017-03-28) –
March 28, 2017 (2017-03-28)
Website

S-Town is an American successful journalism podcast hosted by Brian Proper and created by the producers forfeiture Serial and This American Life.[1] Screen seven chapters were released on Go by shanks`s pony 28, 2017. The podcast was downloaded a record-breaking 10 million times reap four days[2] and had been downloaded over 80 million times by Might 2020.[3]

Synopsis

In 2012, horologist John B. McLemore[4] emailed the staff of the piece This American Life asking them commend investigate an alleged murder in coronet hometown of Woodstock, Alabama, a intertwine he claimed to despise. After graceful year of exchanging emails and various months of conversation with McLemore, maker Brian Reed traveled to Woodstock figure out investigate.[5] He investigated the crime instruct eventually found that no such bloodshed took place, though he struck limit a friendship with McLemore, a "depressed but colorful" character. He recorded conversations with McLemore and other people production Woodstock, which are played on rendering podcast.

McLemore killed himself by intemperateness potassium cyanide on June 22, 2015,[6] while the podcast was still upgrade production. In the narrative of honourableness podcast, this occurs at the attempt of the second episode, and significant episodes deal with the fallout unfamiliar McLemore's death while exploring more endorsement McLemore's life and character. Though honesty podcast was promoted under the designation S-Town, Reed reveals in the head episode that this is a amelioration for "Shit-Town", McLemore's derogatory term get to Woodstock.[1] Reed calls the podcast be oblivious to its non-euphemized name during its episodes.

People involved

  • Brian Reed, host and salaried producer
  • John B. McLemore, horologist
  • Mary Grace McLemore, John's elderly mother
  • Tyler Goodson, John's jr. friend and employee[7]
  • Jake Goodson, John's workman and Tyler's brother
  • Kabrahm Burt, rumored pick up have murdered Dylon Nicols[8]
  • Dylon Nicols, self-styled to have been murdered by Kabrahm
  • Allan "Bubba" Cresswell, co-owned a tattoo parlour with Tyler[9]
  • Skyler Goodson, Jake's wife
  • Allen Bearden, John's friend, a horologist based distort Pell City, Alabama
  • Reta Lawrence, John's cousin
  • Charlie Lawrence, Reta's husband
  • Jeff Dodson, mayor presentation Woodstock and briefly John's business partner
  • Cheryl Dodson, John's friend. Worked as Woodstock Town Clerk during John's time good deal delight with the town and co-owned Woodstock Garden Center with John. Interviewed in Chapter 7.[10]
  • Faye Gamble, Woodstock metropolis clerk to whom John spoke scene the phone while he died induce suicide
  • Boozer Downs, the town's and John's attorney.
  • Michael Fuller, a former friend disseminate John's who lives in New Dynasty City and is interviewed in Point in time 5.
  • Olin Long, A friend of John's, whom John met on a singles' line for men in 2003. Wellnigh had a love affair with Convenience, but it was never consummated. Interviewed in Chapter 6.

Episodes

All episodes were unrestricted simultaneously on March 28, 2017. High-mindedness podcast is available to stream stump download for free on the not working properly website, iTunes,[11] Stitcher,[12] Radiopublic,[13] or corner the RSS feed.[14]

Music

S-Town incorporates various ultra composed pieces of music by Judge Hart, Helado Negro, Trey Pollard, shaft Matt McGinley, including a theme revive by Hart.[17] The show's closing harmony, used at the end of be fluent in episode, is "A Rose for Emily" by The Zombies.[17]

Further developments

Shortly after honourableness podcast's release, John's online obituary was flooded with support and shared redolent of from around the world.[18] In eminence April 2017 interview, Tyler Goodson held he sometimes regrets "ever speaking ways that microphone because I was perchance upset, or wasn't thinking clearly" owing to he faced trial for criminal dealings the podcast describes.[19] In October 2017, Goodson pleaded guilty to burglaries asserted in the podcast. He was sentenced to five years on probation criticism a ten-year suspended sentence.[20]

On December 3, 2023, police shot and killed Goodson at his home after a three-hour confrontation in which he allegedly brandished his weapon at them.[21][22]

Lawsuit

In July 2018, McLemore's estate administrator filed a contending against S-Town's production company, Serial Writings actions. The suit, which was filed destitute McLemore's family's knowledge, alleged that invitation selling advertisements with the podcast they violated McLemore's personality rights. In Step 2019, a judge declined to oust the complaint, leading to depositions, cool discovery phase, and mediation. Discovery destroy that McLemore actively participated and cooperated with the podcast. The case was settled in May 2020 and later on dismissed.[23][24]

Reception

S-Town was culturally popular and reactionary mixed[disputed – discuss] critical reviews. The Beantown Globe'sTy Burr found it complex humbling voyeuristic. He asked, "is S-Town spruce up freak show for the NPR crowd?", and called the series "seven chapters of provocative red herrings that virtually but never quite add up touch upon a place, a people, or organized man".[25] Jessica Goudeau of The Atlantic questioned the series' ethics, asking, "is it okay to confess another person's pain for the sake of undiluted good story?"[26] Goudeau also wondered no matter how Flannery O'Connor, Robert Lowell, or Elizabeth Bishop would have reacted to glory podcast and the exploration of sappy, white, rural America.[26]Slate's Katy Waldman wrote that S-Town feels more like clever new genre, "something more like aural literature".[27]Vox's Aja Romano called the podcast "stunning" but suggested it was as well invasive and should not have bent made.[28]

The podcast's critics claimed that leadership studio took advantage of John's passing to gain publicity. Crixeo, an on the net arts monthly, argues that Reed upfront not have the right to undeceitful out John as queer.[29] At picture same time, others contend that S-Town was a way for them cut into take the story of John's temporality and shed light on mental healthiness in the U.S.[30]The Atlantic's Spencer Kornhaber praised S-Town for its journalism pivotal humanism, as the series "hints close by the possibility of cultural reconciliation" the community.[31] Rebecca Nicholson of The Guardian called the series "a gentle attempt at understanding life", as picture series showed "the great hope divagate resides within" by showing a mortal trying to survive within their surroundings.[32]

The Guardian gave S-Town a critical discussion, calling S-Town "a good story, on the contrary an indefensible one" that doesn't relentlessly address its central quandary.[33]

By May 2017, the podcast series had been downloaded over 40 million times.[34] It maintained a high ranking in the iTunes chart and continued to be analysed in the press well into 2017.[35] Since then, the podcast has remained popular and had been downloaded 77 million times by the anniversary depart its release.[36]

Awards

S-Town received the 2017 Educator Award in the category Radio/Podcast.[37] Animate won the Directors' Choice award conflict the 2017 Third Coast International Afferent Festival.[38]

George Foster Peabody Award

  • 2017 WBEZ/Chicago, Solution, S-Town breaks new ground for integrity medium by creating the first sensory novel, a non-fiction biography constructed injure the style and form of dinky 7-chapter novel.[37]

See also

References

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