![]() She’s the one that’s processing all of that information. She’s the one who we’re sort of dumping all of our reporting back at as it’s happening. Her talent is so strong and so specific that it’s hard for me to actually articulate. I honestly think that she’s the best radio editor in the world. What is that like for you? What does she help bring out? I love seeing two women dominate in this arena. Moth Studio + Adam Maida I really want to ask about your partnership with Julie. We don’t worry about it because you can’t. I suppose if you hit gold then both of those come together, but whatever. You’re either going to do the stories you want to do or you’re going to do the thing you know will be some sort of pop culture sensation. ![]() Then again… if you’re looking for a murder mystery, this is not it.Īt the end of the day, you can’t worry about it because it’ll make you nuts. The stories are really good, and we’re really excited to tell them to people. I don’t think I said people wouldn’t like season 2. I read that you once said people might not like season 2 as much as season 1. Then all of the sudden, it just sort of clicked in. What’s my story? What is this, what is this, what is this?" So it took us a while to figure out what we were doing. When we went, we were like, "I’m just going to sit here and wander around and listen and see what I see," which you think would be like, "Oh that’s so freeing, so much liberty," but it was terrifying because you’re like, "I don’t know what my story is. It’s a mix of things, which was hard, because we didn’t know what we were looking for. Other ones are more about the actual criminal, a specific criminal case. There’s one episode that’s about this one judge and what his courtroom is like, and there’s another episode that’s inside the prosecutor’s office. so people do come back and their cases come back, but they’re not so tightly linked. Also, some of the stories do last more than one episode. But in every other way, I think you’re going to recognize that it’s Serial. ![]() It’s not one story that’s continuing over time. I guess it is different in that, if you’re a purist in terms of what a serial actually is, this is not a pure serial. Is the format going to be the same as before? How does it differ from past seasons? And none of that is what’s really happening in our system, all day long in our courthouses.Įmmanuel Dzotsi and Sarah Koenig Sandy Honig It sounds like you'll be telling many stories within the court, as opposed to one longer story. This kid goes to trial and has, not one, but two trials, and they last a long time. wasn’t the usual kind of defendant that you see. Sarah Koenig: I have to rewind my head like, "What were we thinking?" One answer is that… we did season 1 and it was about this case and, in some ways, it was a story about: Did this person do this or did they not? A more interesting question to me was: What is this trial and what does it mean and how is our system working? And what we realized kind of at the end was, I think it’s hard to say based on one case, and especially one case that’s not your typical. How did you decide on this topic for season 3? Below, Koenig talks to about the inspiration behind this year's season, what it's like to be podcast famous, and the instrumental partnership that makes Serial what it is. The first two episodes will drop on September 20, with new episodes released each Thursday after that (though you can listen to a trailer right now). Koenig, along with her co-reporter Emmanuel Dzotsi, spent more than a year inside Cleveland's criminal courts, learning the ins and outs of cases. Now, Serial is officially back with its third season, and this time they're tackling the less "flashy" side of the criminal justice system. The first season gripped audiences with the case of Adnan Syed the second was a look into the court-martial of Sgt. Narrated by Koenig, Serial became the first mega-hit in the podcast world (it's been downloaded more than 340 million times) and was the first podcast ever to win a Peabody Award. ![]() Back before there was Caliphate or Slow Burn or many of the podcasts you probably have downloaded right now, there was Serial, the investigative serialized podcast from Sarah Koenig and Julie Snyder. ![]()
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