Deals are cut and sentences negotiated in sometimes illogical and unfair ways. Lawyers clash, collude, and commiserate with judges, clients, and each other. Serial presents the Justice Center as an intense web of detail with characters, codes, histories, relationships, ugly buildings, an entire universe unto itself. The ding of elevators, the crunch of boots, the implicit power of the building’s literal structure: These are the little details that turn a setting into a scene, a place into a world. The main court tower is 26 stories high, so the elevator really runs the place.” Roughly speaking, the building functions like most hierarchies: Vertically, in this case, from the bowels up. “The city and county courts, the county jail, the prosecutor’s offices, the Sheriff’s office, and headquarters for the Cleveland police. ![]() “The Justice Center houses, in location, everything a justice system needs,” she narrates. Koenig, who will split hosting duties this season with This American Life staffer Emmanuel Dzotsi, takes just under 25 seconds in the opening minutes to vividly establish Cleveland’s Justice Center, which serves as the hub of stories for the season. The podcast’s highly anticipated third season opens, as it always does, with Sarah Koenig’s narration, once again lyrical and surprising and wildly economical. It’s such a pleasure to listen to Serial again. ![]() Photo: Moth Studio and Adam Maida/Courtesy of SERIAL
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