True Crime
July 16, 2024
Howzat? 4.7 / 6 (Tuesday Teaser) We don’t usually write about true crime but, fucking hell, the Aussie’s do crime well. For some reason, the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) are one of only a few organisations that have nailed the “Serial-esque” true-crime narration thing since it “became a thing”, so this should be a real
- July 5, 2024
Hey! You! What’s eeeuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrppppp? Here it is, this week’s Friday Slips. Take them or leave them but please don’t ignore them… Comfort Eating with Grace Dent – “Allan Mustafa, actor and comedian” Howzat? 3.2 / 6 Grace Dent is a personality and, boy, don’t we know it. She presents as she walks: quaint, dainty, breathy
- June 25, 2024
We don’t really do serious, true-crime serials on Fifth Umpire, but we just listened to this trailer in FU Towers and most of us mouthed “fucking hell”, or something to that effect, after it finished playing out. Sounds good, huh? After a mysterious drowning off ‘Mortuary Beach’, police start to question what’s really happened to
- June 4, 2024
If you like the mountains true crime content Wondery have previously released – and there’s so, so much of it – then you’ll like this offering, guessing by the tone of the trailer. Points that this show is guarantee to include: Nancy Brophy fills her novels with romantic betrayals and murder. It’s a far cry
- May 20, 2024
Howzat? 5.1 / 6 In a world full of true crime podcasts that largely concentrate on ‘orrible things like murder, kidnapping, and the darker elements of Guantánamo, a show based on a scandal involving sporting equipment brings some welcomed levity to the table and I would even go as far as saying that it reinvigorates
- May 17, 2024
Howzat? 2.9 / 6 True crime podcasts. For as long as they have been around, the genre has always been the ‘apex saecula’ of the podcasting world. Think the ground-breaking Serial from This American Life; firm fan favourite Crime Junkie; and Dateline NBC, a podcast wrapped up in so much drama that even the Kray
