‘Serial’ Season Finale Recap: That’s Bergdahl, Folks
“Present for Duty,” the 11th and final episode of Serial’s second season, begins with the day Bergdahl flamed out of Coast Guard boot camp.
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‘Serial’ Recap 2×07: Know Bowe
Interviewing a host of Bergdahl’s old friends and army colleagues alike, Sarah Koenig assembles a damning portrait of a deluded wannabe hero.
‘Serial’ Recap 2×06: Every Col.’s Crazy ‘Bout a Sharp Dressed Man
“So, it’s come at last. At last, it’s come. The day I knew would come at last has come, at last.” After a windup lasting five episodes stretched out across two months, Serial host Sarah Koenig has finally elected to reveal what Serial Season Two is actually about: the ill treatment Sgt. Bow Bergdahl observed and received from his superiors. Treatment so poor it made him afraid for his life and the lives of his fellow soldiers. Treatment so poor he elected to run from his base and trigger an all-out manhunt just to call attention to it because he felt he had no other choice. What was this grievous abuse, this shocking neglect, this malign disregard for the safety of the American fighting man?
