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Excellent listen; important report

Revisado: 10-22-23

How outrageous that it must take so much luck and so much work by so many, over so much time, to stop a single bad actor? This in-depth, informative limited series is just excellent in every respect. It's left me feeling satisfied and / but also filled with indignation and anger. Thank you and congrats to the entire team.

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Important content, uniquely listenable

Revisado: 09-17-23

Environmental concerns have long been my primary civic concerns, but too often I, as a pretty well informed activist layperson, find environmental reporting unlistenable. From news to podcasts to books, too often my environmental anxiety is counterproductively triggered when writers / editors / producers dig data holes of gloom and doom that I cannot bear to consider for any length of time, or they close with a fakely / manipulatively positive note, or they ring a false note of dispassion, or are egregiously superficial, or what have you. This HELL OR HIGH WATER series, however, with its combination of important content and great presentation (writing, production, narration), provides a uniquely listenable experience that for me was the opposite of triggering. It directly engages extremely serious and important content, but the focus on survivors' experiences is like a hand extended through the dark, showing that we are (I am) not alone. Great as this series is, I would love a companion series to it that flips the focus more to the systemic and individual roadblocks to would-be environmental cures. Some calling out onto the carpet, holding feet to the fire, perhaps. Talk to the people who won't talk to you (yes... I know... those pesky laws protecting their privacy and mine... for starters). Pull answers from public agencies: why do they not answer to public demand for answers, and how do they get away with it? Not to mention individual greed, fear, sloth, and sometimes plain old evil. Investigate it. Get into it. Really call out the roadblocks to curing environmental malfeasance. You could use all these anecdotes from Hawaii to California to the East Coast all over again, pivoting the perspective. But anyway this series is just great as it is. Thanks and congrats to its creators.

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important content, tight presentation, compelling

Revisado: 09-12-23

The story, a true one, is compelling without being manipulative, thorough without unduly stretching out or repeating content, informational without being didactic, and satisfying without leaving this listener feeling complacent about the important subjects this series covers. Brava and thanks to producer / reporter / narrator Joanne Faryon.

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Worst / best such account I've ever come across.

Revisado: 04-02-23

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profound, compelling, gorgeously told

Revisado: 11-12-22

As per my headline: I found this episode to be profound and compelling. And the story is gorgeously told.

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excellent -- scorchingly funny!

Revisado: 01-06-22

This really hits my funny bone. I inhaled all episodes, adoring so much of it, admiring the whole. About to re-listen to favorite bits. Wow, I needed this. Thank you so much!

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