Not much was actually wrong with Wondery’s Something Was Wrong podcast. I binged Season 1 in 2 days.
I’ve gotten onto this bandwagon pretty late as well. It first dropped in 2019. This is the case with all my podcasts, as I have to (unimaginatively) google up “best podcasts to listen to”. I really need more recommendations.
It’s sick that a very Christian girl’s narrow escape from an emotionally abusive relationship with a psychopath she met on a dating app was 6 hours of entertainment to me but there we are. We all have guilty pleasures.
So these were the 2 things that didn’t feel quite right.
- They play this weird background music loop that seriously evokes the feeling of someone being manipulated really often. At first I was like “This is amazing. So creative. Such a good way to build the tension!” but now I am just like “No! No! No! Not again!” when the loop starts playing. Especially cause they play it when they read almost every question during the Q&A episode.
- I was also kinda disturbed by how often Sara’s parents kept saying it was OK for them to meet their own daughter one-on-one without the psycho because they weren’t married yet?! After they got married, there’d be some covenant, and Sara’s parents expressed that they would only have met them as a couple. So, if the psycho had better pacing, and only showed his nastiness after marriage as opposed to after engagement, Sara’s parents would not have been able to save her.