Are you kidding? What the hell? I mean sure I was pissed at the conclusion of season 2, but really that was about the half-arsed setup for season 3 considering they'd tied everything off & needed an excuse for more episodes, & the actual story arc was properly concluded. Here, we didn't even get that much. I get that sometimes an arc needs space to play out & sometimes that means spreading it across more than one season but that's not the case here. There was so much going on, but at the same time it felt like nothing was happening.
They've woven disparate elements in before, & the action has always taken weird twists & turns, but everything always still felt like it was part of the same mystery. Here everything just seemed hastily cobbled together into a poorly paced mess as they desperately tried random stuff to see what would work.
Let's spend the first chunk of the season with Jane working against the team - cool idea! Oh wait now she's been found out! Now she's sick & needs a cure! Zapata is a traitor! Only not really, but she can't prove it! Oh no wait Keaton woke up so he can vouch for her! Madeleine is a threat! Only she got caught easily! But there's still Dominic who is out there just kinda being an annoying loose end I guess? Oh hey Psycho Hacker Girl is here too because why not everyone else is! Here's Boden, & Hirst! Oh & that lab tech who got murdered it just terrible at trusting people. Oh hey Shepard left Jane something must be a big deal... Oh no it's just a random collection of stuff! Oh, but who is this mysterious figure??! Oh wait it's Kurt's mother, who has never been mentioned before (& for some reason has no contact with anyone in the family, even Kurt's sister, who was willing to stick up for & spend time with their accused-of-child-murder dad but apparently a few drugs are a step too far) & this is a pretty big deal... for like one episode. Oh, look, the team are fighting over secrets. Again. Aaaaand it turns out that this was all Madeleine's plan all along & all the murder & terrorism & power-grabbing was just to screw with the team so she'd have an excuse to take over the FBI because she's mad about her father or something.
And that's just the shit I can remember.
Oh & don't get me started on them pairing off Reade & Zapata. They had an awesome ride or die friendship, & then the show randomly throws in romance there, because OF COURSE a man & a woman can't be just bros. And they make it worse still by milking this shit for maximum drama.
I was gritting my teeth & pushing through hoping it would be worth it in the end. The finale was never gonna make up for this shitshow of a season, but I'd hoped for some payoff. And what's gonna happen next season? There surely can't be a whole season worth of material in the team clearing their names? So it's just gonna be a few episodes at best... & then what?
Review by DeletedBlockedParentSpoilers2019-06-02T02:04:53Z
Are you kidding? What the hell? I mean sure I was pissed at the conclusion of season 2, but really that was about the half-arsed setup for season 3 considering they'd tied everything off & needed an excuse for more episodes, & the actual story arc was properly concluded. Here, we didn't even get that much. I get that sometimes an arc needs space to play out & sometimes that means spreading it across more than one season but that's not the case here. There was so much going on, but at the same time it felt like nothing was happening.
They've woven disparate elements in before, & the action has always taken weird twists & turns, but everything always still felt like it was part of the same mystery. Here everything just seemed hastily cobbled together into a poorly paced mess as they desperately tried random stuff to see what would work.
Let's spend the first chunk of the season with Jane working against the team - cool idea! Oh wait now she's been found out! Now she's sick & needs a cure! Zapata is a traitor! Only not really, but she can't prove it! Oh no wait Keaton woke up so he can vouch for her! Madeleine is a threat! Only she got caught easily! But there's still Dominic who is out there just kinda being an annoying loose end I guess? Oh hey Psycho Hacker Girl is here too because why not everyone else is! Here's Boden, & Hirst! Oh & that lab tech who got murdered it just terrible at trusting people. Oh hey Shepard left Jane something must be a big deal... Oh no it's just a random collection of stuff! Oh, but who is this mysterious figure??! Oh wait it's Kurt's mother, who has never been mentioned before (& for some reason has no contact with anyone in the family, even Kurt's sister, who was willing to stick up for & spend time with their accused-of-child-murder dad but apparently a few drugs are a step too far) & this is a pretty big deal... for like one episode. Oh, look, the team are fighting over secrets. Again. Aaaaand it turns out that this was all Madeleine's plan all along & all the murder & terrorism & power-grabbing was just to screw with the team so she'd have an excuse to take over the FBI because she's mad about her father or something.
And that's just the shit I can remember.
Oh & don't get me started on them pairing off Reade & Zapata. They had an awesome ride or die friendship, & then the show randomly throws in romance there, because OF COURSE a man & a woman can't be just bros. And they make it worse still by milking this shit for maximum drama.
I was gritting my teeth & pushing through hoping it would be worth it in the end. The finale was never gonna make up for this shitshow of a season, but I'd hoped for some payoff. And what's gonna happen next season? There surely can't be a whole season worth of material in the team clearing their names? So it's just gonna be a few episodes at best... & then what?