Review of Episode 3

Alice in Borderland: Episode 3 (2020)
Season 1, Episode 3
9/10
Best episode of the best season. They should have stopped there.
17 January 2023
S1 E3, which is simply brilliant, but be forewarned: It's probably the moment where you realize this would have been a better 3 part miniseries than full on 8 episode per season 'unsure to renew' for a second one.

The delivery of E3 is brilliant. The ending is entirely stolen from the cult classic "Bokeh" and that's perfectly fine by me as few people would be familiar with that film. It's a gut punch, it's cruel but meaningful.

It's also the very catharsis of the previous 2 episodes, which forms the strongest bond in the series.

Be forewarned: The rest of the season is good, but not as great as this, and you'll be chasing that 'episode 3 high' without finding it again.

And as for season 2, the less is said about that the better. Typical 'woops we ran out of material from the original so let's try to reproduce it', and that's a real shame considering how solid the first 3 episode of the first season were.
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