Reviews

Not sure how to express my disappointment in season 3 more than has been pointed out already.

The plot was so full of holes it was like a sieve.

The acting was mediocre at best and Victor was an empty sullen space where an actor should have been.

Netflix tried to make it all things to all people and failed miserably.

It seemed at times they were depending on the actors to dictate the plot.

So about those plot holes...

If the universe is reset and everyone returned to their own timelines, how did (sparrow) Ben return with the Umbrellas?

How is Number 5 still a boy when the very thing that caused it no longer exists? Shouldn't he be the same age as his siblings?

But perhaps we shouldn't pull at these threads... or everything unravels.

This is another of those series of two halves. The first , we'll say 4 episodes kept the suspense and creepiness at a high, then the last two, well what can I say, drowned in its own pretentiousness, leaving lots of unanswered questions, like what becomes of the island, who was the boy, why were there so many disemboweled people and animals, who were these mysterious island Celts, why is the island the center of the world, how did such crimes go unnoticed for such a long time and why do they have such a bug problem, but no answers were forthcoming in the last episode just lots of gruesome killings and gratuitous uses of the C word.

Quite a disappointing ending all round.

A series that started like so many others, with great promise. Season one did a great job building suspense and characters, really got you right into that small town.

But then season two came about and suddenly the mysterious Adam/ Jonas shows up like the contrite Dearth Vader close to death, perpetually lying to young Jonas and misleading him into maintaining the infinite loop of weird time for reasons only known to Adam. Meanwhile the rest of the Winden's inhabitants reeling from the disappearances set about to find out the meaning of the time portals, while initially successful, succumb to failure and often brutal ends which as any time traveller knows is completely unnecessary to eliminate someone from a timeline but all, especially the Nielsens are woefully bad at following through. Season two is just a mire of lies, flashbacks forwards and sideways until you haven't a clue who did what to whom and by the last episode, you care even less.

Season Three, takes most of the carefully crafted characters and through various follow up stories turns them into vain, self serving psychopaths without a single redeeming feature so that you despise everyone, even the central character Jonas, who by the miracle of time and the magic of the series writers script lives again and again, joined this time by an alternative version of Martha whose known as Eva for some reason, and she proceeds to lie her ass off to her younger self in much the same fashion as Adam did to Jonas. The story finally comes full circle when the incredibly difficult task of setting the timeline right, which none of the travellers could do over eons of repeated de Ja Vus over the course of centuries and multiple copies is achieved by telling a couple, a son of a watchmaker and inventor of the time travelling device not to drive over a bridge but go back home... Boy what an anti climax that was.

The inclusion of a third world only in the closing stages provides clues that this was to be the premise of season 4 but the show's creators must have got bad news from Netflix so no more seasons and wrap the whole doodad in a rushed patch job that frankly made no sense, in as far as any of it made sense. But like other teen series the viewer was rewarded in moments of retrospect and thought gathering by gratuitous horny teens getting their end away in as many shapes as they could, even an especially creepy one between two minors in season three, again it served no purpose to the overall story or outcome down the line. Great initial concept ruined by greed and not knowing when to just... STOP!