Busted 3 (2021)

A very disappointing third season - very sad

Everything within this review is MY opinion, so please keep that in mind - I am not looking for a fight.

So now we ended up here, the third Season of "Busted". After really good marks for Season 1 (9 / 10) and mediocre ratings for season 2 (5.5 / 10), we are now confronted with this mess. It has the lowest rating to date with a mere 4 out of 10 and the season I am, understandably, most disappointed in.

As already criticised in Season 2, the cast once again was strongly pressed in very rigid stereotypical roles. I had the feeling that this time they were split in "completely hopeless" (I don't want to say useless), "pretty helpful" and "detective-material" which made it pretty boring to watch after a few episodes since you already knew what to expect from each of them.

The cases felt lukewarm at best, like they saw them being pulled off successfully somewhere else and just added them to their own show to fluff out the season. Nothing felt innovative or even remotely new, even though it did have it's interesting moments - not gonna lie about that. But those moments were few and far inbetween. There were things that kept happening over and over and over - like self-locking doors trapping someone somewhere, which became predictable and boring REALLY fast. Especially when it was used multiple times in the last episode.

And now let's come to the biggest fail of the season - the ending. Once again the ending is what ruined everything for me. After a really interesting ending (season 1) and a meh ending (season 2) the ending of this season is just a joke. Unoriginal and pretty predictable. They sadly seem to like rehashing old concepts since every ending so far has gone for shock-value more than actual decent story-telling and finishing a story. Yes, the ending episode referenced the previous seasons but like I already said in the review of Season 2, it was more a "thought and gone" moment. It seems the show forgot how to write good, interesting endings after season 1. Once again the ending was highly unsatisfactory.

Season 3 felt like melting down Season 1 & 2 and picking out random pieces before watching the result. The end of the last episode gives us reason to assume that there might be a season 4, so I guess we will see if they can get a better rating next time or if they are damned to end up in 1-star territory

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