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Jun 10, 2017 · Overall, Season 3 doesn’t quite hit as hard as last year but is still a decent showing nonetheless. The stakes are raised and the improved focus on the main story helps to drive it forward without being sidetracked by complicated subplots.
Most of them don't even try. 12 Monkeys pulled on one loose plot thread that was obvious in retrospect and suddenly everything laid out perfectly for the final stretch. It's completely justified that the last three episodes are the highest rated of the series.
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By Christine Seghers
Updated: Jul 22, 2017 2:56 pm
Posted: May 18, 2017 11:16 pm
The following is a mostly spoiler-free review of all 10 episodes of Season 3 of 12 Monkeys, which will air over three consecutive nights on Syfy beginning Friday, May 19th.
12 Monkeys returns this week, and its trippy, twisty, and heart wrenching Season 3 is well worth your time. When we last left our heroes, they had been thoroughly beaten, separated across the past, present and future. Cassie was devastated to learn that the horrifying "Witness" was the child she and Cole had created back in the house of cedar and pine - in a 1950s timeline that Cole thought he'd erased. Season 3 kicks off with everyone still separated but it doesn't take too long before they're reunited, at least for a while.
Season 3 is focused on the concept of family: both the unexpected nuclear family of Cole, Cassie, and baby Witness, but also the chosen family of time travelers that includes Cole's brother-in-arms Ramse, Jennifer Goines, Dr. Jones, Hannah, and yes, even Deacon. Sometimes they're on the same side, sometimes they're at odds (and shooting at each other), but you can't help but be more than a little dysfunctional when forming a family in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, right?
By now, you probably know that 12 Monkeys is not just great science fiction but also an epic romance. There was a time in Season 1 when Cassie was just so evolved a person in contrast to wild animal Cole that the will-they-or-won't-they dynamic was hot but hopeless. But when Cole and Cassie became stuck in the 1950s and became lovers, it was as meaningful as anything else on the show. Some series have either avoided or botched the payoff of sexual tension between their leads but 12 Monkeys really goes all out in driving story by just crossing the hell out of Cole and Cassie's stars. They are already doomed by fate in that if they succeed in their mission they will undo their connection to one another. But then they DO get together and it's sexy and it's love and it's beautiful and then Cassie ends up being pregnant with a monster they have to track down and kill. It's so awful and so very good. And though the season starts with them separated and then continues to separate them ideologically even when they're physically together, fear not: there are some utterly romantic moments for Cole and Cassie this year.
That's the heavy stuff, and there's still the destiny vs. free will philosophical debate underlining the whole show to boot, but the 12 Monkeys writers never forget that time travel is also just a lot of fun and we do get some amusing dress-up opportunities out of it. There are also some truly hilarious moments in Season 3, often coinciding with some really imaginative storytelling as we get to see what it's like to be in Jennifer's head and why she's laughing when it's all going to hell sometimes. Even if I were to try to spoil things for you, you wouldn't be prepared for how funny it is when Jen tries, from the past, to get Jones and the gang to notice when she is and come get her. Later, "Causality" is a delightful heist caper episode with goofy nods to Back to the Future and Scooby-Doo.
There are some major deaths, but we also get to reunite with characters who've already died, and Cassie started the show as a skeleton so even though this season's deaths have weight, it's also highly likely we will see them again at some point. And in the standout episode "Nurture," Cassie has an encounter with a dead person that is not just one of the most moving moments of the series, but one of the most emotional experiences I've had watching television ever. The penultimate episode "Thief" is also exceptional, causing me to absolutely fall in love with a character in a way I wouldn't have thought possible even one episode prior.
There are a lot of new characters to meet this year, including the Guardians who are charged with, you guessed it, guarding the witness. Their leader, Magdalena (Game of Thrones' Hannah Waddingham), is as terrifying a villain as this show's ever had and that's saying something. We also get to know who the Witness is behind that creepy mask.
As always, the cast does exceptional work across the board. Aaron Stanford goes to a pretty dark place in Season 3 but we also see him at his lightest and, in a mindbending encounter in the first episode ("Mother") we see him at his most enlightened. Emily Hampshire is at times a comedic genius and at times, so breathtakingly vulnerable you just want to reach through the screen and shake the other characters and wake them up to her need for their trust and their love (and to the fact that she's pretty much always right). Alisen Down also does amazing work as Olivia, who worms her way into the core of our family of time travelers, but whose intentions remain ambiguous. But it's Amanda Schull's Cassie that anchors the show as always. Her humanity and compassion has been challenged but her innate goodness prevails without her ever seeming sanctimonious. She's still willing to die with her boots and her watch on if it's going to save the rest of the world.
There will be a spoiler-filled review of the season finale on Sunday, but I will say here that by the end there's a huge (well-plotted and satisfying) plot twist that changes everything we thought we knew. It makes the "What" of Season 4's mission pretty clear, though I'm betting the How will defy our expectations, as usual.
Season 3 of 12 Monkeys is indeed binge-worthy, delivering sci-fi thrills, surprising plot twists, and hours of epic storytelling that cement the show as the jewel in Syfy's crown. The series has always deftly balanced humor and action with philosophical quandaries and compelling interpersonal relationships, but takes things to new heights both arti...
- Christine Seghers
May 22, 2017 · Together with some truly heartfelt dialogue and back story for Cassie, Cole, Jennifer, and even Deacon, season 3 of 12 Monkeys did the impossible: it improved upon its already stellar record of...
May 22, 2017 · The Season 3 finale sees everything come to a head as The Witness is forced to converse with his parents as they try and talk him out of ending time. Cassandra and Cole ultimately fail as The...
May 22, 2017 · The final new episodes of Season 3 was really good and surprising. Glad Cole and Cassie found their son and learn more about him and what did as adult from his diaries.
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