{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwriteonsc.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fthe-appeal-of-a-legal-thriller-cboiGF9e","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"The Appeal of a Legal Thriller","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/30f328e8-b4a2-4c66-afeb-670d0bb64d5b/b7582a79-82ba-4184-9f69-7d6cc4c96228/screen-shot-2023-07-31-at-9-42-13-am.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/6a5da6da-07ed-4ba5-b57f-1ce2726c560a\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"The Appeal of a Legal Thriller\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"On February 25, 2023, Kasie and Rex jumped in on the #MurduaghMurderMania with their take on legal thrillers.\nSouth Carolina is embroiled in a dramatic legal thriller right now. The Murdaugh trial, if you’re living under a rock, is eating up airtime on every single news outlet. Our thing is the storytelling piece and so we’re here to talk about this in context of:\nGenre – legal thriller? Legal procedural?\nCharacter – wealth and privilege fall-from-grace?\nSetting – small town corruption? A family so ensconced in a particular region that it seems untouchable?\nMoral / Theme – is this about corruption? Narcissism? Breeding – both in lineage terms and in festering sores of dirty deeds?"}