Season 3 – Bloodline

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Mike N @MYC_mike 6d If you took away the season finale, I give this a 3.5 rating. However, the finale is so rushed and honestly unfair to the viewer considering they knew it was coming to an end. See more Jo W 01/06/2025 The last two episodes were absolutely awful. It was as if the writers couldn't think of a way to end the story, so they put in a load of fillers and flashbacks. While we were watching them we thought of the season of Dallas in the late 70s- early 80s which was turned into a dream. When you realize how much money these things cost to make, it was a really cheap ending. We were also annoyed by Sissy Spasek's acting, as she was speaking in whispers almost all the time, which was very difficult to hear and to understand what she was saying. See more parvez n 09/06/2024 The finale of this season felt rushed, and ultimately unfulfilling. After a stellar first season, the following seasons lacked the ability to balance the peaks and troths of the story. Every plot line just made things worse for every character. What’s worse - they didn’t even finish with a resolute ending. Instead, they left it open to the viewer which felt like a cop out. The final episodes did not thoughtfully conclude the lives of the characters we had been introduced to. The trance episode was confusing. It wasted valuable time which could have been spent wrapping up plot. Overall, the final season left me feeling frustrated, and unresolved. See more Mark M @Markymark333 12/08/2023 This was a very good series indeed, almost at times like Breaking Bad, good people going bad, but like many US series, any success seems to go to the heads of producers, third series got very silly. Lots of flashbacks and the series tried to get too clever by half. When will US producers learn to quit at the top. See more PAM S @Pensgirl87 02/14/2023 Season 3 very disappointing. From too many dark scenes to unresolved questions about what was going on, too many fantasy scenes, very unsatisfactory completely sad ending to a show whose first season was great and second season good. See more william f 05/27/2022 Unremittingly grim family drama/thriller set in beautiful Florida Keys. I think the writer of this 3-season drama must know Greek tragedy, which also traces family tragedy (e.g. Agamemnon) back to an original crime or murder and shows the family curse working itself out over the generations. At one point the mother of the family in this series, Sally, says she thinks the family is cursed. I'd say the whole thing is a kind of anti-thriller. The goodies turn into the baddies. The baddies become goodies in that they are unjustly punished/killed. There is no resolution to the plot in a thrilling court scene or police chase or anything similar. Rather, there is a court scene, but a (relatively) innocent man is sentenced to 30 years in prison, and the real killer is never identified. At the very end when the 'baddy' finally decides to end the saga by confessing to his guilt, the policeman colleague to whom he confesses merely pats him on the shoulder and says: people who have become paranoiac do not realize it themselves, but others around them do. In other words, nobody takes his confession seriously and there is no resolution to the plot at all. As I said, all thirty-odd episodes over three seasons are unrelentingly grim: there's not a laugh in the whole show, merely a grinding feeling of tension and frustration that the truth never comes out and the lies persist. This is psychologically very tiring for the viewer, although it may be more realistic than standard crime dramas which routinely come to a resolution with the triumph of good over evil. Here the opposite happens: a well-regarded, successful family grinds itself into the dust. It's not revealing too much to say that the 'original crime' which sets the whole thing off is the accidental drowning of one of Sally's children and the consequences of that. The crimes which follow on from that result from the fact that one of the brothers, Danny, goes to the bad when his father punishes him violently for the drowning of the sister. Danny, by the way, is one of the more engaging characters in the first series: but he's truly maddening as well, a real prodigal son returning and *not* making good. The script writer loves the technique of breaking off a dialogue or scene just when something important is about to be said or revealed, leaving the story hanging in the air. OK, it's a technique for creating suspense, but it's overused here and grates for that reason. Although there are some loopholes in the plot (for example, why is Sally allowed to tell her story from the past during the court hearing when the judge had previously ruled that the defence lawyer should not be allowed to bring in any extraneous material?) but on the whole the plot is meticulously constructed and the characters of the family members convincingly drawn. As I said, a Greek tragedy set in Florida Keys and dragged out depressingly long with no satisfying conclusion at all (what the ancients called catharsis). At the end everyone is broken (even the beautiful seaside resort itself, which is said to be going to be submerged under water in ten years' time) except possibly Danny's (one of the brothers) son Nolan, who might just possibly have found a way out of the family curse. Do not watch if you want to be entertained, but as anti-thriller or anti-family drama it's quite absorbing. See more Read all reviews

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