The true-crime machine

Crime Junkie is the true-crime podcast as a factory. A case, a host who sounds concerned, a sponsor, another case. The research is real enough. The feeling is that you are being walked through someone else's worst day so a commute goes faster.

I used to listen. I stopped. Not because the hosts are uniquely bad. Because the whole category started to feel like a snack made of other people's funerals. That is the review.

If you already live here, you do not need me. If you do not, do not start.