“The Newsroom” is back! “The Newsroom” is back! Well, as of Sunday. Nov. 9 marks the premiere of the final season of Aaron Sorkin’s beloved (or hated, depending on who you are) cable-news drama, and let me tell you guys, I am feeling emotional.

Maybe it’s just the results of the midterm elections or maybe it’s the use of the recent past, but “The Newsroom” always manages to help me reflect back on earlier times. Were they better? Were they worse? We’ll honestly never know, but either way, Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels) has reported on it once a week through fast-paced and emotionally charged Sorkin dialogue in the past two seasons of the show.

A little over a year ago, we left our characters in a season finale that took place on election night 2012. Will and MacKenzie (Emily Mortimer) got engaged, Sloan Sabbith (Olivia Munn) and Don Keefer (Thomas Sadoski) finally kissed, and Jim Harper (John Gallagher Jr.) and Maggie Jordan (Alison Pill) still weren’t a couple—sigh.

Last season’s main story arc revolved around the deposition after a reported story on Operation Genoa, a black ops mission that supposedly used sarin gas to rescue Marines, turns out to be false. Sprinkle in Jim Harper following the Mitt Romney campaign and meeting Hallie, his new girlfriend; Maggie having a traumatic experience in Africa and cutting off all her hair; and the entire staff trying and failing to resign, and you have season two. So, what do we have left for the final season?

On a recent “Tonight Show” spot, Olivia Munn cryptically revealed, “Sorkin puts [the characters] all in an impossible situation and we see how we all get out of it.” That’s not super helpful, but it does remind us how important people and characters are to “The Newsroom” and how often journalism can test the strength and even “goodness” of those people.

The season three trailer itself begins with a Will McAvoy speech about how “Americans are serious people and we can reflect that back in the worst of times,” as well as a “we don’t do good TV, we do the news” speech. That’s more like the show I have come to love for its huge dramatic speeches that don’t always go as planned.

The draw of this show, for me, has always been in the relationships between the people in the newsroom and how the stress of telling a truth and the seduction of story can push characters to their limits. The difference between right and wrong and good and bad journalism always comes into question, and this season appears set to expand on those same ideas and concerns. Things are looking promising for now.

The trailer also reveals that this season will deal with the Boston Marathon bombing, the use of social media in journalism, illegally given classified government information and whistle-blowing, the closeness of the newsroom itself and, as usual, whether or not Atlantis Cable News has the trust of the audience.

In the “Invitation to the Set,” Sorkin and the cast reveal that this season will revolve around protecting a source and “the lengths that Will and the others will go to do that.” Overlay all of that with emotionally and dramatically building music (think “Fix You” from season one), and the final episodes will hopefully remind all of us as loyal viewers why we fell in love with this newsroom in the first place and how much we will miss it in the future.

Season three premieres this Sunday, Nov. 9 on HBO and HBO GO.