Serial reveals the subject, date of the first season of the podcast 3

Serial

type

Web series

Actual status

In season

The podcast of investigation become a cultural phenomenon returns finally with a new season.

Serial first explored the murder of Hae Min Lee in 1999 and the imprisonment of his ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed. His second season followed Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, a US Army soldier, detained for five years by the Taliban and indicted as a result of desertion. Now, the series will attack the entire criminal justice system by illustrating a year in the Cleveland Criminal Courts for Season 3.

Hosted by journalist Sarah Koenig, the award-winning Peabody series has received more than 16 million downloads per episode, making it the most popular podcast ever released. With such a reach, Koenig chose to use the platform's formidable platform to expose the shocking details of criminal proceedings. The personality of the radio and the journalist Emmanuel Dzotsi spent a year working for the upcoming season, for which they were allowed to record inside courtrooms, judges' rooms, corridors and cabinets. firm. The show will bring listeners to discover sometimes troubling ways to investigate and judge crimes.

"In any case, Emmanuel and I followed, at some point, we thought: No, it can not be how it works,Koenig said in a press release. "And then we were like, Oh! Oh my God. That's how it works! That's how it goes! People who work in the system or who have gone through the system know it. But millions of other people do not do it. And in the past year, I have had this urgent feeling of wanting to open the door of the courthouse and bring people inside. Because things are happening – shocking things, fascinating things – in plain view.

The first two episodes will begin on September 20, and each additional episode will air each week on Thursday. Several stories will be highlighted during the season, with some being grouped into one episode and others unveiled several times.

Take a look at the new season on the link above. Listeners can hear Serial free via podcast applications such as Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Pandora.