Ordinarily, I love Skip Hollandsworth, but I was disappointed in the podcast for Tom Brown's Body. (I haven't tried reading it, but I probably won't, unless some major updates occur.) I don't like when the characters in the aftermath of a crime seem more important than the victim. Too much time was devoted to assessing the personalities of the yokel sheriff, bumptious private investigator, and Tom's mother. Less important, but one of my podcast pet peeves is when the advertisements are done by someone who is on the production staff but isn't the host of the podcast. I think they should be done by the host(s), or else just normal commercials. Why do I care what this rando thinks about Hello Fresh? I don't even know who they are. And most of all, I bristled at the kink-shaming and multiple people's assumptions that if Tom has this alleged kink, he's also gay... what? And how does this have anything to do with his disappearance, even if any of those things were true? I thought it was handled badly. It was irrelevant and felt a lot like victim-blaming. I am not saying Mr. Hollandsworth made these connections, but he also didn't editorialize against it, and that bothered me.
Ordinarily, I love Skip Hollandsworth, but I was disappointed in the podcast for Tom Brown's Body. (I haven't tried reading it, but I probably won't, unless some major updates occur.) I don't like when the characters in the aftermath of a crime seem more important than the victim. Too much time was devoted to assessing the personalities of the yokel sheriff, bumptious private investigator, and Tom's mother. Less important, but one of my podcast pet peeves is when the advertisements are done by someone who is on the production staff but isn't the host of the podcast. I think they should be done by the host(s), or else just normal commercials. Why do I care what this rando thinks about Hello Fresh? I don't even know who they are. And most of all, I bristled at the kink-shaming and multiple people's assumptions that if Tom has this alleged kink, he's also gay... what? And how does this have anything to do with his disappearance, even if any of those things were true? I thought it was handled badly. It was irrelevant and felt a lot like victim-blaming. I am not saying Mr. Hollandsworth made these connections, but he also didn't editorialize against it, and that bothered me.