Hi everyone. I'm Rincey and this is Rincey Reads.
Today I'm going to be
talking about S-town. This is a podcast
that was recently put out by the same
people who put together like This
American Life and serial. I'll have a link
to it down below in case you guys are
interested. I listened to it a couple of
weeks ago and I've been thinking about
it basically ever since. I have a lot of
thoughts and a lot of feelings and they
are complicated. So let's just get into it.
Oh before I get started, I'm just
going to say that if you haven't
listened to s town in its entirety,
there will be spoilers for the entire
thing here because I think a lot of what
I want to talk about also happens in
like the last couple of episodes. So if
you don't want to be spoiled on S-town,
I recommend like turning this off, coming
back to it when you have finished. Or if
you don't plan on finishing or you don't
care if you get spoiled, you can continue watching.
So like I said, my thoughts on S-Town are
really complicated. It's one of those
podcasts that by the time I was done
with it made me feel really uncomfortable.
And I've been thinking
about this a lot in terms of the
podcasts that have been coming out
recently. Let me just say I listened to
both seasons of Serial and the first
season of Serial made me slightly
uncomfortable as well. I think it was
less the podcast though and more the way
people were talking about the podcast.
The first season of Serial dealt with
the death of a young woman and someone
who is currently in jail for that
crime and the way people talked about it
was just so like dismissive of it.
And the way that we talk about these
podcasts, we talk about them as forms of
entertainment but because these are
actual people with actual situations,
it's not just entertainment. I feel the
same way about like the news and I feel
the same way about like reality
television. Like we create these things
that are meant to be entertaining on a
certain level but they involve real
people and real situations and their real
lives and we turn these people into like
caricatures almost and we take away all
of the complexities and the nuances that
might belong in them and we make them
into stereotypes and we sort of like
gawk at them from a distance. and it makes, again,
it just makes me really uncomfortable.
So I started listening to this podcast
because they pitched it as a true-crime
podcast in the beginning. They talked
about how this guy contacted them from
the small town in Alabama and there was
some like corruption and crime that was
happening in there. And so I was
interested in that because that's a idea
and story that I'm always really
interested in. This ideas like corruption
happening amongst officials and police
officers and things like that and trying
to uncover the truth and bring some
justice about. By the end of the eight
episodes, it was seven or eight episodes
I can't remember now. I think it was seven.
It turns into something completely
different. And in the beginning I was ok
with it because I like sort of character
driven stories in my books and in my
television shows and all this stuff.
I like stuff that focuses on the
complexity of people and it seemed like
S town was going to make that turn after
the major death happens and after they
realized that like this murder wasn't
really a murder and things like that.
I thought that they were going to talk
about the complexities of just
small-town life and the people that live
in this town. But it turned into
something else. The fact that this
journalist Brian felt comfortable
delving into the sexual orientation of a
man who had recently passed away and
hadn't necessarily provided
information about that aspect of his
life was really uncomfortable for me.
The fact that they set up a lot of questions
that didn't provide a lot of answers but
I think left room for the listener to
make judgments on them. I also think it's
really uncomfortable to look at people
who live in these sort of small southern
American towns and especially if someone
who like lives in Chicago, I live in the
north, I live in literally like the exact
opposite of what those towns are, it felt
very easy for it to turn into like
making those small towns into a zoo and
making those people into like the
animals at a zoo who are meant to
entertain me and provide me with some giddiness
before moving on with my life and I
can sort of like cast my judgment upon
them because they aren't alike to me and
they think a different way and act a
different way. And yeah it was weird. um
but I also couldn't stop listening to it
which i think is probably mostly on me.
But it was a really compelling podcast.
But i think what made me the most
disappointed was the fact that they
created like these seven episodes in
total and just drop them all at once.
So they didn't have to deal with the
real-time aspect or the real-time
reactions while making the podcast like
Serial had to deal with especially in
their first season. You know there was
real information that was coming out
while they were creating all of these
episodes and they had to adjust episodes
in order to accommodate for that new
information and all of this stuff.
This was clearly different in that they just
dropped the episodes so they knew
exactly what they were putting out and
they knew what the full arc was going to e
And so the fact that they chose this
arc to tell felt a little bit weird
because there are so many like gray
areas that they go into. And they
acknowledge it at a certain point and
they come up with their own
justifications but I don't think their
justifications are right or I just don't
agree with them at all. There was a
really great article on Vox that someone
shared with me and so I'm going to link
it down below and they talk about this
really well as well. It basically says
like s town is a great podcast but that
doesn't mean that it should have been made.
I've been think about this a lot
because there's this podcast, I had
uncomfortable feelings about Serial and
then there was like what I think is the
pinnacle of uncomfortable podcast which
is the missing richard simmons podcast.
Where this guy without any prompting,
without any sort of encouragement for
Richard Simmons, just goes looking for
him. And I think that in this age that
we're living in, we believe that anyone's
lives are somehow belong to us. Like we
don't have any right to delve into
anyone's private life without their
consent or their rights and so things
like missing Richard Simmons where he's
trying to search out for this man who
doesn't want to be found or purposely
like removed himself from the public
life for a reason, made me really, really
uncomfortable. And I think that this s town
podcast kind of did the same thing where
they started delving into parts of
John's private life that he didn't
necessarily want or we don't know if he
wanted out there. And because he's passed
away there's no way to really reconcile
with that and i think that i don't know
maybe i just give too much reverence to
people who passed away but at a certain point
I'm just like, they're not alive anymore
to give their wishes so how are we
supposed to handle that. I would
always edge as a side of caution. But
anyways those are by just complicated
thoughts on s town. It was great
storytelling but I also kind of don't
know if it should have been made just
like the Vox I article said. So let me
know what you guys think down below.
I know a lot of people really enjoyed it
because again like I said it's really,
really well done. It's really compelling
but doesn't make it right. So it's one of
those things I've been like literally
wrestling with and thinking about
constantly since I've listened to it.
I also listened to it all in one day so I
think that was part of the problem for
me at least as well. Like I just dove in
and listened to all seven episodes almost
straight and at the end of it I was just
like ah man I don't know that was
something I should have done. I think
that if there was more space between the
podcast episodes like if I had to wait a
week, I think there would have been a
point where I stopped listening. But
I didn't and this is where we are now. So
Again let me know down below with you
guys out of Serial, and I will -- not serial,
s town -- and I will talk to you guys next time. Bye.
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