A little background if you've never listened to the podcast: Serial investigated a murder case from 1999. The show proposed that Adnan Syed, the man convicted of the murder, did not in fact kill his girlfriend Hae Min Lee. As a result of the podcast, Syed was granted another trial . After Serial, true crime podcasts proliferated, so much so that we have a growing list of the best ones . Serial gave way to true crime television series like Making a Murderer and The Keepers, or even Errol Morris's Wormwood. Now, there's a television show about a fictional true crime podcast. The podcast has eaten the TV series, or the TV has eaten the podcast. Either way, the true crime ouroboros is complete.