Into the Badlands Martial Arts Stunt Team Season 3

When "Into the Badlands" launched in 2015, its existence was relatively insane: a high-octane sci-fi martial arts serial, that the creators of the WB's "Smallville" weren't adapting from a book or a comic — they were inventing whole cloth. Four years afterwards, this is also insane simply true: after approximately the other eleven billionity shows that have followed in its wake, it all the same remains unique.

That's a massive accomplishment on its own. So is the show lasting for every bit long as it has, specially given that at that place are plenty of other out-there concepts which never made it past their offset seasons.

Nevertheless, it'due south still going to exist lamentable to say bye to the AMC drama, which returns for its concluding run of episodes on Monday, March 25. It arguably might exist said there was more life left in this show, even — that it's as well soon for farewells.

In its showtime flavour, "Badlands" began with a relatively simple narrative: In a post-apocalyptic landscape, a warrior (Daniel Wu) takes on the cause of helping a boy with unexplained magic powers as rival rulers tried to harness his abilities. The world surrounding them was rich with details and a rich and colorful artful, and the ensemble included fascinating characters (including some truly powerful women), and all of them got to fight each other in some of TV'due south most artistic fight sequences, every episode.

Midway through Season three, it's a lot less piece of cake to draw what'south going on, every bit over the form of the previous 24 episodes countless alliances have been destroyed, with presumed heroes finding their dark side and presumed baddies revealing their decent hearts. The character work was always relatively blunt from scene to scene, mostly for the sake of efficiency given how much each episode had to pack in, but information technology was just every bit present as the beautifully designed costumes and gorgeous scenery.

"Into the Badlands."

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All with the abiding hope of peachy action, rooted in Hong Kong traditions, encarmine and brutal and jaw-dropping. While every nuance of a "Game of Thrones" battle sequence gets picked over, "Badlands" has been quietly delivering epic-scale violence with its own unique aesthetic for years. However, while literally one-half of the production on this show is devoted to the action scenes, if you were only to fast-frontward to those scenes, you'd yet be missing a lot.

"Badlands" has grown over the seasons, learning from its mistakes when information technology can — such every bit the get-go flavor's relative dearth of humor, which the producers addressed nimbly past adding "Shaun of the Dead" star Nick Frost to the cast. Frost'due south office in the series has become easily one of its almost important elements: Non just comic relief, he has proven himself as a dramatic role player, and in (with, of class, no shortage of help from the evidence's stunt team) come to hold his own in the fights. He'southward not the only major addition to the cast over the course of its run, but it'southward incommunicable to imagine the show without him now.

Information technology's those other cast additions in general which contribute to the evidence's biggest ongoing challenge, every bit it tries to keep in balance so many wild elements. The activity, the mythology, the character stories are all stretched beyond what tin can exist at least four storylines an episode featuring a dozen characters. As it's progressed, it's at times gotten arguably too scattered, but Season three does take some focus in trying to bring together that ensemble for the promised confrontation against Pilgrim (Babou Ceesay), whose fascination with the gifts that both haunt and help people like MK (Aramis Knight) could have world-shaking consequences.

"Into the Badlands."

AMC

That focus, unfortunately, isn't quite plenty to make the circuitous nature of the narrative feel every bit cohesive as information technology could be, and the sprawling nature of the diverse storylines may be a gene in why things are wrapping upwards with this flavor — it'due south easy to imagine that a fourth season would go even more than convoluted. However, that complicated landscape speaks to the depth of the world that's been created, and the fact that each character still left breathing has more story in them to exist told.

This season, the big theme is on slavish devotion to a cause — evangelicism, ane might say — at the expense of what matters: family. No one seems to be a stranger at this stage in the serial, which has really become about literal and found families trying to survive. Love exists, but generally ends in tragedy; it's alliance and sisterhood which are the near worthwhile causes.

It's been well-nigh a twelvemonth since the first half of the tertiary season of "Into the Badlands" actually premiered, and at that stage, it wasn't officially appear whether or non the show would be back for a fourth — watching then was a reason to get excited for what was to come. These last 8 episodes, meanwhile, launch with at least a tinge of sadness. When the third flavour ends, it's modest condolement to say that at least the show continues to exist on Netflix as an undiscovered gem for potential new fans, and no spoilers, but electric current fans will have to decide for themselves how they feel near the catastrophe.

No show has ever looked like "Into the Badlands" earlier, and no prove volition e'er look like "Into the Badlands" again. That is a tragedy for television.

Grade: B+

"Into the Badlands" airs Mondays at 10 p.chiliad. EST on AMC.

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Source: https://www.indiewire.com/2019/03/into-the-badlands-season-3-review-amc-final-season-1202052632/

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