Serial is coming back in March to tackle Guantanamo Bay
Six years after the last season of Serial, Sarah Koenig's Peabody-winning podcast is coming back to take on the "human-scale history of Guantanamo"
It’s to the enduring credit of Sarah Koenig, Julie Snyder, and the entire team at award-winning, genre-codifying podcast Serial that they’ve never really dipped their toes back into the true-crime podcasting ocean that the first season of their show helped define. Instead of picking another lurid, unsolved murder to deep-dive on in the wake of the massive interest in the death of Hae Min Lee, the show’s second and third seasons both aimed at crime from different directions—the case of U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl, in the case of the show’s 2015 installment, and a year in the life of a standard U.S. courtroom in 2018. Now, Koenig and her team (now owned by The New York Times, via Serial Productions) are preparing to return, announcing today that Serial’s fourth season will arrive on March 28, and will focus on the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.