After the obsessive internet sleuthing that followed Serial Season 1, the prospect of re-examining Adnan Syed’s conviction for the murder of Hae Min Lee sounded exhausting.
And yet, roughly five years later, The Case Against Adnan Syed, which premieres Sunday night on HBO, delivers shocking new revelations on a story many true-crime fans know better than the back of their hands. Hae was found murdered in her car in 1999, leading to the conviction of her boyfriend Adnan a year later. In 2014, the Serial podcast raised some serious questions about his guilt.
But the four-part series most notable contribution to the saga is how it reckons with so many of the ethical questions that most true-crime media avoids in order to keep feeding our insatiable appetites for more real-life horror. It paints a gut-wrenching portrait of the immeasurable pain a single murder conviction has, rippling through those even only tangentially involved in the trial decades later. Read more…
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