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Season 3 is short, nasty and brutish. And that is the good news, especially the season being short (just four episodes) since season 3 is a debasement of what had been a very good series. WTF happened to this show? Sure it was never popular in the US or UK (nor Scandinavia), with a cancellation by Sky announced toward the end of the second season the final (short) season. But it could be counted on for some great dark humor, a touch of horror, and lots of irony. NONE of those upsides is present in the truncated final third season. All we get is absurd horror, no answers to hanging plot strings, and more plot strings opened that go nowhere. It is as if the writer(s) were as drunk as the heaviest townsfolk drunks in the show.

I don't know why IMDB hasn't unlocked reviews for the fourth and final episode, as Sky first broadcast it on December 24, not December 27 as claimed here.

3 stars as I would have given the show 9-10 if it were just the first season but 2 and 3 completely ruined the show.

Some spoilers. The first season is well written, great characters, never overstated. It sits somewhere between genres and is rooted in science and plausible character motivation. I was watching, glued thinking "Why havet more people spoken of this show!" It isnt perfect, but it almost is. Great performances and cine and score, there are a few plot holes, but I was eager to jump into the second season to see how they were to be filled and the last scene set us up for a greater expansion on what I felt they had probably rushed a little to get to.

The first scene in season 2 they literally destroy the setup the entire first season had built to and it was all down hill from here. Characters vanished with no explanation new ones came a went, often without any relevance to the story. Performances became cartoonish and logic goes out the window... I dont get it!? They set up this amazing world in season one and I thought, wow, this is something really to build on! But then they completely changed course, the horror, nudity and violence was now gratuitous and the characters were idiotic. Why didnt they use the Tusks on the boat? The cave with all the mammoth corpses? Why not explain why Dan was at the first victims house? What was the set up "More will come?" none did. There was so much to work with. Instead we get something about people with superpowers, and voodoo. Its just awful

So, we watched season 3, it was only 4 eps (no idea why) so how bad it could it be. In fact it was much worse. Dennis Quaid, whom I have been a fan of, has been completely wrong and lost in this show, his story gets so much worse. New characters are added, that again serve no purpose to the story more pointless violence, and the acting gets even more atrocious. Dont get me wrong they are not bad actors, they just directionless.

So what happened? It seems it was the same writing/creative team throughout. How did one of the best first seasons of TV turn into the most disappointing? Not enough time? Interference from studios? I dont get it! Such a lost opportunity, make me terribly sad for all involved