Fiasco

Fiasco is Leon Neyfakh’s season-long history of a political disaster, told with the pacing of a serial rather than the pace of a textbook.

Iran-Contra, the 2000 election, the Boston busing crisis, the AIDS fight. Each season picks a fiasco whose official story has gone smooth, and then plays the tape from when it was still sharp.

Neyfakh came from Slow Burn’s orbit and built a sister form: archival audio, interviews with the people who were in the meetings, and a narrator who enjoys the grim irony without winking past the damage.

A later feed may advertise his other series. The chapters labeled as the season you started are the ones that pay off.