The Case Against Adnan Syed - Season 1

Berg's other great asset is how deftly she gets interviewees to open up to her on camera.

Comprehensive yet still incomplete, "The Case" gets entangled in the underbrush and can't quite seem to find its way to either a conclusion or the truth.

The four-part series proves a powerful mystery documentary in its own right while providing tremendous service to further ascertaining culpability of Syed.

Despite a questionable use of Hae Min Lee's diaries, this Serial follow-up is a worthwhile investigation into the perils of a biased justice system.

If you're a fan of Serial, brace yourself - you're about to get sucked back into the unfolding story.

The four-part series most notable contribution to the saga is how it reckons with so many of the ethical questions that most true-crime media avoids in order to keep feeding our insatiable appetites for more real-life horror.

This docuseries has a sprawling cast of people, each providing further shading of the emotional and personal truths they carry due to the devastation of this case.

The Case Against Adnan Syed suffers from a lack of specificity. Pick an argument and thoroughly make it - as it is, it's just retelling the story briefly and catching us up to the appeal.

The docuseries's investigative work is top-notch: more nuts and bolts than Serial, but also able to profit off of the wide-ranging fact-finding the podcast inspired.

That lack of definitive verification is emblematic of an inquiry that's much better at raising troubling questions than forwarding actual answers...