(Non-spoiler review) So, I finally finished Marvel's Runaway's Season 3 and while it had a few bright spots throughout, I thought it was the worst season yet of the show, and its documented on here well that I'm only so-so on the show anyway. Most the child actors and their subsequent characters on the show are just plain awful and borderline unwatchable. Most particularly bad are Gert, Molly and sometimes Nico. My goodness. While the Chase actor is alright, his forced zero-chemistry on-and-off relationship with Gert is one of the worst romances I've seen in all my years watching TV. The dialogue writing in particular for this show is just rip my eyeballs out painful. The plot and writing for this season in general was just all over the board. Just when you think the show is going one way, it goes a completely different direction with no reasoning and no payoff for everything you watched up until that point. You keep asking yourself "have I missed an epsiode or something"? What the heck is going on? There is no backstories either on any of the new characters. They pretty much just appear and are there.
Anyway, that was a lot of dogging on this season, and deservedly so, but like I started out with, there were a couple bright points in the show. Some of the magic stuff, while not having any background to it, was kind of fun. I also thought the season in general started out decent, took a really bad turn in the middle with a few episodes, then finished out at least somewhat on a slight uptick, even though I still wouldn't call it a good ending. Elizabeth Hurley did pretty decent as Morgan le Fey, even though her writing was bad.
With all that said, I'll come out with my new MCU and Superhero TV rankings soon to include this season, but as you can tell by my review, it will inevitably rank VERY low on both rankings. Also, after every Marvel TV finished season watched lately, especially after this one, it is becoming more and more clear why Disney is finally clearing the board with Marvel TV and making it go away. Its not just them that are finally done with them, but I'm becoming the same way. Especially lately with Runaways S3 and the last season of AOS, the canon between the two is really starting to split, especially with the time traveling elements. I'm a canon junkie and stuff like this really bothers me. There is also zero question to the quality disparity on average between the MCU movies and MCU TV shows. The fight for TV eyeballs seems to get harder and harder every year due to the explosion of high quality streaming services, and I see why TV shows like this just aren't performing up to par. I'm a big Marvel junkie which is essentially why I still follow along with a show like the Runaways, but I'm not sure why too many else would based on its overall quality and characters. Would love to hear anyone else's thoughts who maybe also has watched S3.
