Season 3

My interest and investment in this final season fizzled out very quickly. I thought the beginning was pretty decent; the first two episodes or so, although maybe that was because it was the beginning, not because it was pretty decent: and then, all of a sudden, I didn't care about anything that was happening.

Regardless of whether or not it was because it was something new to me, a new season, the first few episodes were undoubtedly the high points, episode-wise, of the season. Once it got halfway, the quality of what was happening dipped a lot, and I wouldn't say it was super high at the beginning, either. But it evolved to be detrimental by the halfway point.

And this season has six episodes, not eight. Despite that, it still felt like too many, yet not enough, at the same time. Even with two more episodes, that wouldn't have changed much. While the previous two seasons were also underwhelming and dragged out, they seemed more interesting than this season was.

If you can't make a season interesting enough for investment throughout its entirety, minus two episodes compared to the first two seasons, which was going to be the case with this season, too; having eight episodes: you're doing something wrong. Yet you must've done something right. Because if there were two more episodes in this final season, given the state of the scriptwriting, it would've ended up more tedious and more of a slog.

Yet there were some things that I thought were decent, such as:

• The acting. In a general sense, the acting isn't worth mentioning; when it came to mostly everyone who had dialogue. The acting that I thought was decent was from the three central characters. Esme Creed-Miles' acting was easy to notice and appreciate, given that she played the titular character: so was Mireille Enos' acting, which I thought was better than Esme's acting; and Dermot Mulroney's presence as John Charmichael dwarfed both of them. Their performances brought a lot to their characters.

• The soundtrack. There were a few songs that I thought were great. The rest, while they weren't songs that I liked, still contributed to a good soundtrack. It was the same with the second season and probably with the first season, too, but I don't remember.

• The cinematography. Good cinematography is pivotal for the watching experience, and if it's not to a certain standard, that can negatively impact what you're watching, taking you out of the immersion. But the cinematography was up to that standard. Some specific shots also stood out.

But there were also things that I was neutral towards, such as:

• The fight choreography. It wasn't bad, that's for sure. Some of the fight choreography had a hard-hitting feeling. But, overall, it was just okay. Most of the fight sequences weren't ones that I'd remember easily, as far as my tastes for them are concerned. If anything, the editing dragged down a lot of the fight choreography.

• The script. Parts of it felt like the writers were going in a specific direction for what it'll be and how it should feel, yet it fell short. I'm referring to the thriller genre stuff: or rather, lack thereof. One of IMDb's summaries started with, "In equal parts high-concept thriller and coming-of-age drama..." More like coming-of-age drama.

• cont.) There were clear signs of "high-concept thriller" (well, there would have to be; otherwise, the show wouldn't involve typical thriller narratives), yet it always fell short, feeling underwhelming for what it should be. And the non-thriller stuff, instead of complimenting the thriller stuff, practically dragged down everything as a whole. It was the same way in the first season and probably the second season as well.

Overall, I think this final season had more underwhelming undertones than the previous season. Being the last season of the show essentially amplified the underwhelming-ness of it all. But despite that, it wasn't that bad of an end to the show. It could've been so much better, though; same with the first two seasons.