Serial podcast launches second season

Some believe Syed was wrongly convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend in 1999, and the podcast is credited with helping him win another hearing that will allow him to present new evidence.

Meanwhile, Bergdahl’s case will be the subject for the second season of the popular podcast Serial.

Koenig is looking into U.S. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s story, who was held prisoner by a Taliban-allied guerilla group in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2014.

In May 2014, the Obama administration traded five Taliban detainees at Guantanamo Bay for Bergdahl.

Eugene Fidell, Bergdahl’s attorney, told NBC News that the podcast will help explain Bergdahl’s motives for leaving his post.

Bergdahl was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 501st Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, based at Fort Richardson, Alaska.

Last year, The A.V. Club launched a podcast, The Serial Serial, where we talked about another podcast, Serial. In Bergdahl, it finds a deeply politicized story, and one wrapped in the complex nuance of both military culture and the military’s autonomous code of military justice. And the consequences of that decision, they spin out, wider and wider.

On leaving the base after midnight, he worries about the reception he’ll get once he reappears, and decides to try to get information on who was planting bombs in the area.

By agreeing to let “Serial” use his interviews with Boal, who was conducting research for a movie he plans to make, Bergdahl will have a chance to make his case to a wide audience. “There were times that I would wake up and it was just so dark, I would wake up not even remembering what I was”, Bergdahl recalls.

He claimed he fled his unit in order to “create a DUSTWUN – a radio signal that stands for “Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown” – to highlight poor leadership within his unit”. And Will Koenig’s second tale have as big of an impact as her first? “Everything after that, they were still missions that were in search of Bergdahl”.

“Gutsy, but still stupid”, Bergdahl responded.

It’s unclear how much of Bergdahl’s recounting is believable, something Koenig pledged to address in later episodes.

Bergdahl’s case is still active, and his lawyer released a statement to The Washington Post about Serial. Bergdahl now faces two charges after an Army investigation. He also likens himself to the fictional character Jason Bourne at one point.

Bergdahl also said he wanted to prove he was a super soldier, like Jason Bourne. “I was trying to prove to myself, I was trying to prove to the world, to anybody who used to know me…

Bergdahl’s voice is not the only one heard in episode one. In Afghanistan, he spent more time with locals than his platoon.

Bergdahl’s captivity is mentioned only briefly as the podcast begins. “And you break them all down, and you’re like, ‘Oh, they’re all made up of just people.’ And it’s really interesting to start seeing it through the eyes of people”, Snyder told The New Yorker.