Serial's third season will tackle the Cleveland criminal justice system

After a long wait, the third season of the hit podcast Serial is being released later this month, but it's going to be a bit different from the first two seasons.

Serial first launched in 2014 and was originally conceived as a podcast telling one story over the course of an entire season. Season one focused on the murder of Baltimore high school student Hae Min Lee. The show earned 40 million downloads in its first two months and became the most popular podcast ever. It also helped kickstart a wave of true crime documentaries and podcasts. The second season came out in 2015 and focused on the Army desertion of Bowe Bergdahl.

In its third season, Serial will tell multiple stories, though they are all set in the Cleveland criminal court system, Entertainment Weekly reports. Sarah Koenig will once again host, with reporter Emmanuel Dzotsi joining her. Some of the stories will only last one episode, while others will go on for several.

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Koenig says she expects listeners to be surprised and potentially disturbed by the way the featured cases unfold, telling EW that "for the past year I've had this urgent feeling of wanting to kind of hold open the courthouse door, and wave people inside. Because things are happening — shocking things, fascinating things — in plain sight."

Serial's third season will premiere on Sept. 20. Two episodes will be released that day, and thereafter, new episodes will be available on Thursdays. You can listen to a trailer for the new season here.