So after eight episodes, it's over. And after an hour and a quarter of the last episode, we know what happened. It's supposed to end on a high note, and that's the last episode.
I was looking forward to the last episode and it really didn't disappoint. By the end of the seventh episode, everyone already knew how it could have been, and in the final farewell Now Am Found (English approximately "Now I've found myself"), we learn everything we need to decide if season three was good or not.
This time it's good, in the first seven episodes we laboriously untangled a tangle of suspects, looking for killers, kidnappers and God knows what else… and the last episode brought us the resolution.
Solving the entire case, which was so muddled that the resulting and simple ending to the search was as good an ending as we could have asked for in an eight-hour, three-timeline narrative.
I appreciate the creators for being able to show all that is good about people in the last episode, and that it's not just an evil corporation behind Julia Purcell's kidnapping, but just trying to do good in a bad way (when you have money).
The last episode is a climactic ending in that the fan gets the best of it in the final minutes. A good ending that means everything honestly and that only true honesty and truth can really make things right. In both 1980 and 1990 Wayne Hays doesn't finish his investigation and by 2015, with Alzheimer's, the detective finishes his investigation. Spoiler: He finds a alive and well Julie who is really happy with her life now and owes her life to only good and kind people.
I'm not going to write about how the murder and kidnapping really happened, rather I got a lesson in good filmmaking and a good story that was unique in the last episode.
In the first season we dealt with a serial killer in Louisiana, in the second we dealt with murders and conspiracies in the Las Angeles area, and finally the third (hopefully not the last) brought us a child kidnapping. It's up to you which one was the best, but the one with the pairing of Mahershala Ali and Stephen Dorff is the best in my opinion.
With each of the investigators, we follow their work and life story against the backdrop of an investigation that is not easy. Only old age and a desire to solve their nightmares before they die will solve the case. How it all came to be, and that it was so simple, none of the investigators thought of it.
The best is yet to come, and episode eight is the best. And hopefully there'll be another season, with different actors, so we can see the next story that the masterminds behind the whole series, Nic Pizzolatto, Daniel Sackheim and especially Cary Joji Fukunaga, will bring us. The third season is, in fact, the best one yet, ending with a well-solved case and a good and happy ending for the investigators and the kidnapped children.
Original Article February 25, 2019 – Kritiky.cz
