![]() While a definite date has not been set, it's exciting to know that, as soon as the current case wraps up, there will be a new one to devour almost immediately. Luckily for fans, it seems they won't spend very long asking, 'when does Serial Season 3 come out,' because we already know that those episodes are due to air in Spring 2016. But if it does hit a major high, it will be according to a completely different set of terms.Season 2 of super popular podcast Serial has only just started, and already buzz is building for Serial Season 3. The ingredients simply aren’t there: There’s no surging central mystery, no drive towards possible resolution, no true-crime stickiness. It seems pretty clear to me that the team will probably not be able to shake that off, and it also seems clear to me that this new season, given the complexity of its goal, will probably not hit the same highs as that first phenomenal run. The first season continues to loom over the podcast almost four years after its debut: the true-crime affiliation, the collective and ethically complicated obsession, the SNL skit. The team appears to be shouldering not just enormous expectation and ambition - I’ve spoken to more than a few people have compared the premise of new season’s premise to The Wire, which isn’t particularly accurate, but still hefty - but also the weight of its own shadow. Serial begins its third season with considerable baggage. ![]() After all, issues aren’t always defined by their edge cases, in much the same way that people aren’t always defined by their highest of highs or lowest of lows. But while those stories are usually attention-grabbing, anger-provoking, and painfully salacious, there may well be distinct limits to what they actually tell us about the criminal justice system. ![]() In The Dark’s second seasonis a representative example of this, as its case revolved around a black man in Mississippi who was tried six times by the same white attorney for a crime he might not have committed. (Of course, the question of who constitutes the “we” is always and rightfully a subject of debate, meditation, and criticism.) But the most noteworthy of these works tend to deal with extraordinary cases in order to bring attention to the strangeness and the failures of the systems that are meant to support us. These works find value in mining the gap between how the world works and how we think it works - or rather, how we think it should work. The surreality is often key to crime journalism, novels, documentaries, podcasts, and legal dramas like The Good Fight. ![]()
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