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24 alternatives to Serial - S2E6: 5 O’Clock Shadow

Why did Bowe Bergdahl walk off?

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Serial - S2E6: 5 O’Clock Shadow launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Serial - S2E1: DUSTWUN▲230

   Season 2 follows Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl

   2015 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Serial - S2E5 Meanwhile in Tampa▲79

   No handbook for getting Bergdahl back

   2016 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Serial - S02 Episode 11: Present for Duty▲72

   [Season 2 finale 🙀] What’s Bowe's fault, and what isn’t?

   2016 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Serial - Hindsight, Part 1▲71

   It makes sense if you’re Bowe Bergdahl.

   2016 · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Serial S2E7 - Hindsight Part 1▲5

   It makes sense if you’re Bowe Bergdahl.

   2016 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Serial - S2E2: The Golden Chicken▲98

   What is Bergdahl worth to us?

   2015 · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Reply All - 24: Exit & Return, Part II▲64

   Concluding Shulem Deen’s story

   2016 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Slate's Serial Spoiler Specials - S2E1▲64

   Spoiling the first episode of the new season with a war vet

   2015 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Serial - S2E4: The Captors▲82

   What's happening on the other side of the door?

   2016 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    The Adventure Zone: The Eleventh Hour - Chapter Six▲68

    Time for a bank heist.

    2016 · its alternatives →

11. 11
    I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds▲312

    Sup HN, So I got tired of bouncing between Flightradar, MarineTraffic, and Twitter every time something kicked off globally, so I wrote a dashboard to aggregate it all locally. It’s called Shadowbroker. I’ll admit I leaned way too hard into the "movie hacker" aesthetic for the UI, but the actual pipeline underneath is real. It pulls commercial/military ADS-B, the AIS WebSocket stream (about 25,000+ ships), N2YO satellite telemetry, and GDELT conflict data into a single MapLibre instance. Getting this to run without melting my browser was the hardest part. I'm running this on a laptop…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Reply All - 65: On the Inside, Part II▲60

    "A murder he claims that he didn't commit"

    2016 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Reply All #69: Disappeared▲72

    A man decides to sabotage the entire internet

    2016 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Archive 81 - 5▲67

    A security guard and revelations.

    2016 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Serial - Hindsight, Part 2▲71

    Woulda, coulda, shoulda...

    2016 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    This American Life - 570: The night in question▲86

    The assassination of Israeli's Prime Minister and ...

    2015 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Serial - Extra: The Gold Hammer▲73

    Jason Dempsey on counterinsurgency & end game in Afghanistan

    2016 · its alternatives →

18. 18AN
    AssassinationFiles.net – JFK Declassified Document Search▲122

    2017 · assassinationfiles.net · its alternatives →

19. 19
    none*2▲87

    A mysterious game of riddles, episode2

    2015 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Criminal - It Looked Like Fire▲67

    An episode about a famous photograph

    2016 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Reply All - 70: Stolen Valor▲67

    PJ dives into the world of military impostors

    2016 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Hunt the Truth — S1E1: A hairline fracture▲88

    The intro to Microsoft's "Serial"-style Halo podcast

    2015 · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Serial Podcast▲177

    From This American Life, follow 1 story over a whole season

    2014 · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Reply All - 66: On The Inside, Part III▲70

    The one person who witnessed the murder

    2016 · its alternatives →

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