"A journey we all went on together. The fact that different people had different experiences of it, and remember different details, speaks to just how much the series has to say."

- Leon Neyhakh, Prologue Projects/Fiasco/Slow Burn/Think Twice: Michael Jackson/Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer/Backfired

S-Town begins as a true crime investigation and slowly unfurls into something stranger and more elegiac—a Southern gothic portrait of one man’s brilliance, despair, and contradictions, rendered with literary ambition and aching intimacy. Rejecting the conventions of its genre even as it plays with them, the series evolves into a meditation on time, obsession, and the weight of place. With its lush production and novelistic structure, S-Town marked a turning point for podcasting: a work that treated form with the seriousness of craft, and its subject with a rare, complicated grace. It is as haunting as it is humane.