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Serial: A Narrative Analysis

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When I first sat down to watch this last episode of Serial, I was somewhere between “I honestly don’t know” and “Adnan killed Hae Min Lee”. The finale served as a recap of the events documented throughout the series in which new facts were presented, new perspectives were shown, and new opinions formed. Adnan's guilt finally emerged from the interview with a coworker of Jay's, named Josh. There was no reason for Josh to lie. He was not affiliated with the case in any way, and what he said made sense with the context of Jay's story. This evidence is more reliable than Adnan's or Jay's because there’s nothing at stake for Josh. He recalls Jay being fearful of Adnan, and Jay suggesting that Adnan had threatened that his family would hurt

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