Just finished Season 3: a hot mess

I rushed through season 3, 8 episodes last night and 2 episodes this morning. What a hot mess it was.

I loved season 1, it was spot on. Season 2 got a little worse, but still worked out quite well. Season 3 is another beast, it turned into a family drama mixed with a dark comedy. It looked like the final season of Dexter, lots of potential, quite good pace in telling the story and hook you up, yet it fails to deliver.

The major problem with this season is that it is full of fillers and subplots that do not make any sense. Do you remember the bad guy, Dr Spivak? Well, he is on screen for something like 20 minutes in 10 episodes. And he is presented to us like an evil yet demented mastermind. No credibility at all. And what about Destiny, Peter's cousin? Or Annie, a new character who is simply ruining everybody's life in the name of atonement? Shelley's subplot would better fit in a soap opera. Olivia is doing great, as usual, as do Dr Pryce and his colleague Blinsky. But it is a bit too little to save this season.

What I didn't really get was the need to make this season revolve around ethical and moral issues. They simply don't fit into a story like this, or at least not to this extent. Hemlock Grove is meant to be an enjoyable series, not a compendium of religion, bioethics, or mother-sons psychology, or incest. Especially if executed this poorly.

I give this season 6/10, a perfect mean between potential (7.5) and execution (4.5). Pity.