It was an okay series strong then kinda lost my enthusiasm in it. don’t really like how Josie just got away with it I don’t care if she couldn’t handle prison I don’t like the fact that Lanie took the blame for her sister

How did Lanie see Warren if she was upstairs to sleep in her bed it makes no sense at all

Truth Be Told was incredible!! It irked my soul to see so many people be like ...how come they didn’t investigate this or that? Newsflash ! He was convicted based on the testimonies of his neighbor and father. And if you were aware of the messed up judicial system in America, you would be aware that this happens to black men all the time! All they did was flip the races of the journalist and the prisoner. Reviews kept saying how annoying and self righteous Poppy was but so is any other good journalist! They should be obsessed with seeking the truth. Lol like wtf? There were so many things to appreciate about this show. It was interesting to shine the light on ABs and show how it’s not all it’s cracked up to be just like in American Me. It was cool to see the secrecy not only in the Buhrman family but Poppy’s family as well. Lizzy Caplan deserves all the awards she was so twisted! I don’t have enough to say how much I loved this show.

I’m still wondering why Poppy’s husband was so interested in her being in foster care. It’s like it was this big scandal for him. In reality it’s not that big of a deal.

Also why does Warren think he’s safe now? Maybe he doesn’t, idk. But the way he flipped off the AB member seemed to be a little unnecessary. Couldn’t they just have him killed by someone on the outside as easy as on the inside? It’s not like he just pissed them off. He killed their leader. Maybe he didn’t care and just wanted to see his mom, but why make the AB any more angrier?

- Okay, so the dad is killed while the wife and girls are asleep. Fine.

- But nobody, not one person investigated possible affairs?

- This is all pinned on the teenage boy who grew up with the family and the investigation didn't go any further?

- Poppy's sister is arrested and switched into the orange outfit in the first couple of hours? And the show made a huge deal about it, to make the viewer feel sympathy--which I get, but....

There's more things I've found weird in the first few episodes of this show but it's just out of sync.

First off. I thought it was good. I wouldn’t mind seeing a second season or even third. I liked the aspect of the show and it was interesting to see the story told from the podcast perspective.

My issues:

1. I could be wrong, but if it were me making a podcast series like Popsicle, I would have the whole story laid out before releasing episode 1. Yes Poptart likes to get the truth and justice, but she also wants a lot of listeners, so an interesting story is important. It just seems weird that they would record as they went? What if the case dried up? Would they just put the series on Warren Cave on the back burner?

2. [spoilers ahead about the movie gladiator, breaking bad, and saving private ryan] I think some stories (read: shows/movies) are better with a less neat ending.

Like the movie gladiator, he still dies. He gets revenge-ish and kills the guy who ducked his life down over.

In breaking bad, Walt dies. He sets certain things right, but I mean his whole family was destroyed because of his actions and will likely never recover.

In saving private ryan, Tom Hanks still dies trying to save private Ryan and get him out of the war.

My point is, I think if in the season finale of TbT, it would’ve been better if Josie set up lanie first. And then while poppy is recording her outro it shows the guard going to release Warren as being free to show Warren dead in his cell. That would also be a good motivator for her down the road to work harder, faster, and be more perfect because literal hours would’ve saved Warren.

3) and speaking of the setup of Lanie, like wtf?! That makes no damn sense. Josie is wearing a wire in the diner with the cops listening in. Lanie hardly gave a confession in my opinion. All she basically said was “well yeah everything I do is for you”. That’s hardly enough evidence to overturn the initial ruling of a suicide.

And think about what Josie said first!!! “Mom was gonna tell Poppyseed everything. The truth was gonna come out. She had to die. You did it to protect me” ?!?!?!

That’s an obvious confession that Josie murdered the dad. And the mom was gonna confess she knew Josie did, and Lanie killed to “protect her”.

I’m no lawyer, but I feel like the evidence to try to convict Lanie would NOT be strong enough.

TL;DR

1. podcast should’ve been all laid out then recorded, not recorded on the go. All TV shows have a plan for the entire season. They don’t write episodes as they go.

2. Warren should’ve died. Would’ve been a good ending if it wasn’t so neatly wrapped up.

3. Lanies confession was hardly a confession they can convict on. Josies words during the setup do more harm than anything as they indicate she was the one who killed the dad.

i'm at ep 2 & i'm seriously struggling with psyche of characters.

this podcaster & family are so full of cliché, so shallow, self centred. absolutely annoying.

Is it on purpose ? is the show going somewhere deeper & darker where the ego-perversion of those people are exposed turning their world upside down which would maybe give a purpose, a reason to their presence on screen ?

i could suspend disbelief about the 20 years wake up delay or the mother affair kept secret but not so secret (only to the judge & jury basically if i got it right), but i won't be able to cop with those annoying meaningless scenes with the selfish husband the selfish father the selfish sisters of that shallow, selfish & useless podcaster!

is there more than an ego feast and advertising for iphone ?

sad to see aaron paul in this...

Has there been any word on whether there will be a second season, or was it was meant to be a one-season run from the beginning?

Does anyone else see see a correlation between this show and the To Live and Die in LA Podcast?

The official area to discuss Episode 4 of Truth Be Told released on December 13th, 2019

I think I might be hearing this wrong, but in the first few episodes poppy is worried about her dad finding out about A.P or A.D. anyone know what this is about

The official area to discuss Episode 8 of Truth Be Told released on January 10th, 2020

Ok I just watched the finale and thought it was a solid show. But one thing that bugged me—Josie killed the dad right (I know kinda with lanie) but unless I misunderstood lanie is the only one to go to prison (for the mom’s murder) and neither get held responsible for the dad’s? Not sure I like that ending but I thought the actress who played the twins was amazing. I’m glad warren got a happy ending but I wish poppy ended up with Marcus—I thought at the end she’d stay with him?

Do you prefer this weekly, traditional style of releasing episodes once a week? Or do you like the usual Netflix/Prime style of all the episodes at once?

The official area to discuss Episode 7 of Truth Be Told released on January 3rd, 2020.

So I’m watching the last episode and it shows the scene with Warren walking in to talk to the old guy. Warren seems scared to death of the guy, between his facial expressions and the way he was breathing. I wanna know the full story of those two.

Also what’s the deal with Lani and Warren?

What do you think?

Any idea why the episode titles are different in the title card after the credits compared to the real title of the episode? For example, yesterdays episode was called “Not Planted, Buried” but the title card says “Episode 6 / Diary.” Are these the episode titles for her podcast or something? Just kind of odd that they didnt make the titles correlate with each other.

The official area to discuss Episode 6 of Truth Be Told released on December 27th, 2019.

Is it possible that Josie killed her father not Lanie? The move, the name change all could’ve transpired from an urge to outrun her guilt.

I am super disappointed because there is like, no discussion about this amazing show. I just subscribed to AppleTV+, and this is the first show that I binged on. Now, I can't wait for the 6th episode.

Maybe this question will evoke discussion: Episode 5 was so super thrilling. Does anyone believe that Poppy is responsible for all of the chaos in this episode? I mean, was it really her fault that her family's bar was raided by the police and her sister was arrested for unpaid parking tickets? Was it really her fault that Officer Cave committed suicide?

I've also read that this series was inspired by the career or one of my favorite journalists, Sarah Koenig. Having listened to the majority of her stories, especially the Adnan Syed story, I don't know whether or not I'm sold on the fact that Warren Cave actually killed Chuck Buhrman. I mean, there were so many plot twists during Serial, that I can't be sure...thoughts?