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Every Episode of the Mystery Show Podcast, Ranked

The beloved Gimlet podcast ended its run after just six episodes—so we ranked them all.

Late yesterday, Starlee Kine, host of the much-beloved podcast Mystery Show, announced via Facebook that Gimlet Media let her go and ended her podcast after one six-episode season. Gimlet issued its own statement, calling Mystery Show "an ambitious production," and adding that Kine's "uncompromising vision" made the show "unsustainable to produce and publish on a consistent basis." Kine is currently looking for a new home for the show, but until it finds one it's a one-season wonder of a podcast. Since going through the entirety of the series would only take a few hours, and the cases Kine tackled on her show range from fascinatingly mundane to supremely bizarre, we ranked each episode so you can go back and enjoy the best of what Mystery Show has to offer.

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