A true-crime series feed whose sampled episodes are all cross-promos for other Lemonada shows.
Blind Plea is attributed to Lemonada Media, and the show's own RSS description frames it as a true-crime narrative about Deven Grey, an Alabama woman convicted after a 'blind plea' following a Stand Your Ground self-defense claim. None of the five sampled episodes present that narrative directly: all are 'Listen Now' or 'Special Listen' cross-promotional installments for other Lemonada shows — Happier with Gretchen Rubin, Wiser Than Me, and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler — inserted into the Blind Plea feed rather than original episodes of the series. Those crossover episodes cover goal-setting and book recommendations, celebrity-interview retrospectives on Saturday Night Live and New Yorker cartooning, and a Hallmark-actress interview about postpartum depression and family illness. Based on the available data, this profile can confirm the show's network affiliation and its feed's cross-promotion pattern, but not the content or delivery of Blind Plea's own narrative episodes.
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The episode sample retrieved for Blind Plea contains no original installments of the show itself; all five entries are promotional cross-posts distributed into the feed by its parent network, Lemonada Media. Three come from Wiser Than Me, in which actor Julia Louis-Dreyfus interviews older women about aging and career, including Saturday Night Live original cast member Jane Curtin and New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast. Two come from Happier with Gretchen Rubin, a panel-format show hosted by writer Gretchen Rubin and her sister Elizabeth Kraft, covering personal habits, annual goal-tracking exercises like a '25 for 25' list, and book recommendations. One comes from Everything Happens, in which host Kate Bowler interviews actress Nikki DeLoach about Hallmark movie tropes alongside DeLoach's postpartum depression and her son's congenital heart surgeries. All of these crossover episodes are interview or panel-format conversations, not the narrative true-crime storytelling that Blind Plea's own description promises. Because the sample is entirely cross-promotional, this profile cannot describe Blind Plea's actual host, narrative structure, use of court records or original interviews, or episode-by-episode arc from grounded data. What can be said is that Blind Plea sits within Lemonada Media's broader roster alongside lifestyle, comedy-interview, and inspirational-interview shows, and that its own feed, at least in this sample window, carries promotional inserts for those sibling shows. Listeners arriving via these particular episodes would primarily be existing fans of Happier, Wiser Than Me, or Everything Happens rather than people drawn in by Blind Plea's true-crime premise. Anyone evaluating Blind Plea's actual content should weigh the show's own RSS description more heavily than this episode sample. A future sample containing the show's own narrative episodes would be needed to ground claims about tone, pacing, and case detail.
Made for: Existing listeners of Lemonada's Happier, Wiser Than Me, or Everything Happens shows encountering these cross-promoted episodes, plus true-crime listeners drawn by Blind Plea's own Deven Grey case premise.
What sets it apart: Unlike the recurring interview and panel shows represented in its cross-promoted episodes, Blind Plea is described in its own RSS summary as a single-case true-crime narrative about one Alabama Stand Your Ground conviction, though this sample cannot independently confirm that format.
In 2017, Deven Grey, a young mother, shot and killed her abusive partner in a remote trailer in rural Shelby County, Alabama. She claimed self-defense and filed a Stand Your Ground claim. Instead of freedom, she was handed a “blind plea” – an option to take an unknown sentence in exchange for pleading guilty. As a Black woman who shot and killed a white man in Alabama, she did the only thing she could: She took the plea. Deven’s sentence became the final link in a chain of deceit, haunted land, generational trauma, false identity, coercive control, and a broken justice system. ...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · August 2026
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