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    HBO doc 'The Case Against Adnan Syed' picks up where the heralded 'Serial' podcast left off

    by Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times Mar 11, 2019 4 minutes

    "Serial," the addictive real-life murder-mystery podcast, was already riding its wave as a pop cultural phenomenon by the time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg hopped on the bandwagon.

    Released in October 2014 and anchored by reporter Sarah Koenig, the first season of the weekly investigative yarn revisited the 1999 murder of a Baltimore high school student, Hae Min Lee, and the person convicted of killing her, her ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed.

    Its questioning of whether Syed was actually guilty of the crime gripped listeners (it became the fastest podcast to reach 5 million downloads and streams in iTunes history), spawned a brigade of armchair detectives and Reddit threads, and made podcasts mainstream in

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