{"id":269110,"date":"2019-03-11T08:49:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T14:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1022396"},"modified":"2019-03-11T08:49:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T14:49:32","slug":"how-the-case-against-adnan-syed-is-bringing-hae-min-lee-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/how-the-case-against-adnan-syed-is-bringing-hae-min-lee-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Case Against Adnan Syed Is Bringing Hae Min Lee to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019211\/rs_600x600-190311074100-600-case-against-adnan-syed-ch-031119.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.837455830389\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"14.734982332155\">\n<p>HBO&#8217;s <em>The Case Against Adnan Syed<\/em> started off its four-episode run bringing <strong>Hae Min Lee<\/strong> to life.<\/p>\n<p>The first episode set out painting a picture of the young woman&#8217;s life before her murder, more than <em>Serial<\/em>, the podcast that brought the murder and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/adnan_syed\">Adnan Syed<\/a><\/strong> to national attention, did. It was all by design.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the main goals for the series was to bring Hae Min Lee to life,&#8221; director <strong>Amy Berg<\/strong> told E! News. &#8220;I spoke to many of her friends, a family friend of her mother&#8217;s and the journals and just really tried to build this picture of Hae Min Lee for the film.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>Lee was murdered in 1999 and her ex-boyfriend Syed was charged with her death. Syed has been in prison since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>The Case Against Adnan Syed<\/em>, Berg interviewed a number of Lee&#8217;s close friends, had access to her diary and worked with an animator to bring her story to life. The documentary also employed narration of Lee&#8217;s journals. The first episode paints a picture of the relationship between Lee and Syed, as well as the girl Lee was before her death. The installment touches on Lee&#8217;s allegations of past abused while in Korea and how she struggled with the weight of keeping her home and school life separate.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"31\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>Lee&#8217;s family was not involved in the documentary.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"61.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13\">\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t imagine that it&#8217;s easy for them,&#8221; Berg said. &#8220;We spoke to a close family friend who gave us her insight on the family. They didn&#8217;t want to participate in the film, but I can&#8217;t imagine how difficult this must be for them. They thought this was a closed case and justice was served, and then all these questions continue to come up for 20 years. As the mother of a young girl who was murdered and had her life taken away, I&#8217;m sure that it&#8217;s horrific for them,&#8221; Berg said.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Case Against Adnan Syed<\/em> airs Sundays, 9 p.m. on HBO.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1022396\/how-the-case-against-adnan-syed-is-bringing-hae-min-lee-to-life?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO&#8217;s The Case Against Adnan Syed started off its four-episode run bringing Hae Min Lee to life. The first episode set out painting a picture of the young woman&#8217;s life before her murder, more than Serial, the podcast that brought the murder and Adnan Syed to national attention, did. It was all by design. &#8220;One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-269110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 09:57:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}