‘Serial’ Season 2 Opens With Bowe Bergdahl Channeling Jason Bourne – Sort Of

Over the course of between eight and 10 episodes, the show will examine the story of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a US soldier who left his post in Afghanistan and was subsequently captured by the Taliban, who imprisoned him for five years. Suddenly, it starts to sink in that I really did something bad.

“I felt that I would rather be in [Fort] Leavenworth [military prison in Kansas] than standing over the bodies of guys in my platoon”, said Bergdahl, who conceded his actions were “stupid”.

Bergdahl said he walked away from Observation Post Mest in June 2009, leaving behind his gear and weapon, with the idea of making it 20 miles to Forward Operating Base Sharana in southeastern Paktika province, where he would tell superiors of wrongdoing and problems in his unit. “In this room, in this blackened dirt room, it’s tiny”, Bergdahl said in the first episode in National Public Radio’s “Serial” podcast, which will focus on his case. I’ll take questions on where the criminal case stands, how the investigation got to where it is now and why Bergdahl is considered such a controversial figure.

Republicans in the House of Representatives armed forces committee on Wednesday released a report that said US President Barack Obama had not informed Congress about the prisoner exchange in a timely manner.

Bergdahl of Hailey, Idaho, was charged in March with desertion and misbehavior before the enemy, a charge that carries up to life in prison.

Sgt. Bergdahl’s phone conversations with filmmaker Mark Boal are featured in the new season of the wildly popular podcast “Serial”. To which Bergdahl replied, “Yeah, capable of being what I appeared to be”. In some sense he wanted to emulate someone like Jason Bourne, the espionage movie character Bergdahl added. He was held captive, abused and tortured for almost five years, before being freed in the prisoner exchange May 31, 2014.

Serial host Sarah Koenig and her team turn their attention to the case of Bowe Bergdahl in season two.

In September, Maxim magazine reported that Koenig attended a hearing for Bergdahl in San Antonio, prompting speculation that the podcast’s second season would follow his story.

However, the report disproved an earlier accusation by a U.S. Green Beret who said the U.S. government had tried, and failed, to pay ransom to secure Bergdahl’s release.

In a significant departure from the Peabody Award-winning first season, which examined a little-known 1999 murder case, Bergdahl’s case has already garnered extensive coverage in the past few years-so good luck avoiding (or forgetting) spoilers for this one. Unlike the first season of Serial’s (formerly) little-known Baltimore backstory, Bergdahl’s is a high-profile topic.