SWEET BOBBY
I’m admittedly not a huge true crime person, but when my hairdresser described SWEET BOBBY to me, I couldn’t wait to listen. It’s a catfishing story, which I know we’ve all consumed a lot of ever since MTV’s original CATFISH came out. But this particular story is much more insidious than any single episode of CATFISH ever was. Radio host Kirat tells her own story of how a man she thinks she knows in her community strikes up a relationship with her on Facebook messenger. In the years that follow, she gets stuck in a web of manipulation and lies, masked as love. Kirat’s story has gripping twists and turns that left me truly shocked. The six parts that make up the series came out last fall, so if you decide to listen you are most likely in for a quick binge—I was so into it I finished the whole thing in just a few days.
—Darlene Kenney, Digital Strategist
