Sweet Bobby

Country: UK

Number of Episodes: 6

Average Length: 40 minutes

Year of Release: 2020

Created by: Tortoise Media

An elaborate catfishing plot that spans years and supposedly continents. The plot twist and reveal had me shocked. It's a story and scenario that are difficult to believe in more ways than one. While the storytelling is done sensitively and carefully, some context and pertinent questions were left unmentioned which left me feeling a little frustrated. Without giving away too much, I think that the producers could have covered the cultural context that the victim and perpetrator came from as well as the act of coercive control and its emotional and psychological impacts. I listened to this podcast when I was in mandatory government-imposed isolation in a facility during the Pandemic. So it was a kind of fantastic escape at the time, but I wonder if I would have felt differently if I hadn't been locked in a hotel room by myself for days on end...

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