Something Was Wrong (2018 Podcast Series) User Reviews

Some human being are shockingly hurtful

[marwamaghraoui · 10/10 · 19 February 2023]

This podcast shares stories of real victims speaking up about the abuse, trauma, lies and hurt they've been through because of a mentally ill person who scared them and got into they life somehow either as friend or love interest, or even worse a family member that they grew up with.. I honestly love the podcast and the vision that Tiffany has for it the way she edits and organizes the story, the interesting questions she asks as well as the insightful information she gives at the beginning of the episodes and I also love the contribution of experts such as therapists or psychiatrists, I discovered many things about some people in my life and understood why they did what they did thanks to this podcast.

Incredibly boring with no actual storyline

[rochelle-340-908914 · 1/10 · 31 July 2023]

I have listened to dozens and dozens of true crime and "imagine if this happened to you" type podcasts. This is not one of these. This is hours and hours and hours of very strange, insular "Christian" people getting extremely upset about an odd man that they invited into their lives and who really did no real harm. Where is the story? Where is the plot, the crux, the drama or the adventure? There is none.

Perhaps if you are looking for validation about the poor relationship choices you made in the past, you'll enjoy this podcast. But it is most definitely not for listeners who enjoy true crime, actual crime, actual harm, even actual, moderate, definable "badness".

Definitely the worst and weirdest and most boring podcast I've listened to.

Gossip and Hearsay Based

[evaleshatimber · 1/10 · 9 August 2023]

The first season of this podcast was interesting, albeit long and in need of fine tune editing. As the podcast has continued, the tone continues to stoop lower and lower to gossip.

A large concern as the platform grows is that Tiffany calls herself a "journalist." The lack of fact-based reporting, boundaries, and full-scope storytelling is an embarrassment to true journalists. Furthermore, it's contributing to sullying a profession that is fighting to remain trustworthy to the public's eye.

The stance taken by the guests and host are dangerous to their subjects who are, perhaps strategically, voiceless during each season. As often is the case with weak storytelling, there is a strong sense of "victim and villain" pushed onto the listeners from the storytellers and host. In the SWW universe there is no room for questioning their guests and no world in which perpetrators contain any background or storyline aside from the role they play to move the subjects' own stories along.

I warn against listening to a podcast that removes any responsibility from guests and marks every day people as criminals with no real critical review.

Listeners Beware

[mkm-86411 · 1/10 · 13 September 2023]

I liked this podcast in the beginning, until it came to the season about the host's life. I have made the mistake of beginning this season twice and both times it was so traumatic I had to stop. SPOILER! There is an episode about when her brother was bitten by a neighbor's dog. Of course, this is never the dogs fault. It is solely the parents and the owners fault. If a dog feels scared for whatever reason--in this case, a small child getting into its face-- then it has every right to defend itself. The next scene about the owners reaction has affected me so much that I literally threw up after listening to it. Not only that, I have had continuous nightmares for months. Now its to the point where just watching a show where a dog is in distress triggers memories of that podcast episode. It serves no purpose to the storyline other than to illustrate that she had terrible parents, which even the she admits. I would ask that this whole episode be totally taken out of the season since its pointless to the story and is just unnecessary violent filler. I wish I could get those words and that story out of my head. Even just writing this, I'm having severe chest pains. Maybe after a few more months or even years, I will be able to overcome this, but any animals lovers should totally skip the sixth season all together so you aren't traumatized too. Praying that dog was given to a good home after this incident or the owners were thrown in jail for the rest of their lives.

Started Strong/ Died Fast

[nikki-63190 · 2/10 · 2 November 2023]

I really enjoyed seasons one and two this podcast. By season 5, I was not just "not enjoying" it but actually hated it. The guests became increasingly whiny and aggravating. There was one particular "survivor" named Rachel who claims her Christian parents were extremely abusive and then recounts little to no abuse, simply "old school" parenting. She criticizes her parents for not mourning the death of their infant son correctly and yet was a child herself when this death occurred. She couldn't have known how they mourned behind closed doors or why they chose not to fall apart in front of her. She looks back at her "trauma" (as do most of these guests) as if they are experts and they label people in their families and lives as "narcissists" , "gaslighters" and "abusers" when SOME of them appear to have just made mistakes, as we all do, that they acknowledged later. Certainly some of these guests did suffer genuine abuse but even those guests lost all sympathy just communicating in such a superior tone. The host puts words in their mouths often and tries to make the mistakes bigger and fit into a particular psychiatric diagnosis to fit the narrative.