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I'm going to start off by saying that I loved the first two parts of "La Casa De Papel". The story felt intriguing, the characters all had distinguished personalities, and the plot had very few boring spots.

With this in mind, I was satisfied with the cliché, Hollywood-esque finale of part 2, where the main character meets with a former enemy, in a lush tropical cocktail bar. It felt like it had come full circle: the plan was set, executed, and had come to an end. After finishing part 2, I had selfishly hoped that there would be no part 3, for the same reason Breaking Bad, arguably one of the greatest TV shows in recent memory, only had 5 seasons: so it wouldn't become one of those "Oh is it still running? I used to love that show" type of series. In other words, from fear of saturation. And, in my opinion, rightfully so. Breaking Bad had left me with a hole in my stomach thinking "This is it?" when the final credits rolled. That is the mark of a great show, and I had genuinely hoped that "La Casa De Papel" would be brave enough to put an end to the fantastic series, and to fight against what today is more evident than ever: continuing a series just for the money. Returning to my Breaking Bad comparison, read any interview with Vince Gilligan about the length of his show, every time he'll say that the production company pushed for more seasons, reason being "it had just started to make money".

Ranting over, when I had found out that "La Casa De Papel" was getting a 3rd part in 2019, I had very mixed feelings. On the one hand, I would have loved to see Il Professor and the gang some more, but on the other, I was happy with the ending part 2 had offered, and felt there was little wiggle room for a possible third installment.

So July rolls around and I'm none the wiser, I hear from a friend that part 3 is out. Excited, I watch a few recaps, and when I feel that I was fully prepared and in the know for the continuation, I put on S3E1: "We're Back". 50 minutes later, I'm sitting on the couch sporting an ear-to-ear grin, thinking "THIS is classic Professor".

Long story short, I was satisfied by the direction taken in order to continue the story, but had a few minor gripes regarding the first episode, which prompted me towards the 8 I awarded it. I was relieved that it wasn't a prequel to the first two parts, describing each character's backstory, or something along those lines, for that was a worry I had previously had. This was a pure, simple and plain "what happens after we win" scenario, which, in my mind, worked perfectly, especially fitting the character mold created by a rebellious and reckless Tokyo in the previous seasons. As always, I am annoyed by the sheer stupidity caused by the double trouble couple of Rio and Tokyo, but understand that it's a typical behaviour for the type of character portrayed by her.

Another issue I had with the first episode was the fact that it felt like it would never end. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't hoping it would finish due to boredom or such, but instead I felt like what was otherwise presented to us in one episode, could have easily been made into 2 parts (episodes). A cut when Tokyo meets The Professor again, or after his flashback with Berlin. I felt like it absolutely had to end with the uncovering of the National Bank of Spain replica model, paralleling beautifully the unveiling of the Royal Mint of Spain model from the first ever episode, a truly goosebump inducing, deja-vu moment. But no, the episode continued so far as to actually show them flying their blimp over Spain and "bombing" people with 140 million euros. It was a ravishing scene, coupled with Alvaro Morte's soothing, yet skin crawling-ly clever narration in the background.

One thing I had loved about the first couple of seasons was the somewhat unpredictable plot twists during the heist, making the audience, and the police, believe that the robbers would be trapped in a corner, only to reveal an array of hidden trapdoors, that the Professor had laid out years prior, anticipating nearly every possible scenario. S3 is no different. A grand plan to rob 90 tons of national gold through a seemingly impossible plan, carried out by an apperantly amateur team, fact underlined by Rio's capture and subsequent torture.

All in all, I'm left pleasantly surprised by the direction season 3 is taking, but I felt that perhaps the first episode was a bit too jam-packed with too much action. I'll have to wait and see how the rest unfolds, clenching my teeth at every bad turn as usual.

Thank you for taking the time to read my first ever review on IMDb, and I hope that my point of view is not too polarising towards yours.

Yes, it's the perfect start for the season. I was concerned about two things: what is the point of the new season and weather that point would be valid or not.

The reunion of the group was based on valid matters, and each member represented this matter from his/her prospective very logically.

I loved the Tokyo-Professor scene, and also the Tokyo-Rachel scene. I loved Denver and his speech about his son.

It would have been a 10 if only we had more time checking out what happened to each one of them at the last couple of years. The episode didn't represent it very well though, but I hope the following episodes will.

Also when I saw the trailer I was concerned about the come back of Berlin, but thank god he is not alive and this happened 5 years ago.

The whole new story isn't sustainable itself.. why should the Professor, after everything that happened, still care about adults which keep messing around like freaking teenagers (Tokyo and Rio)? Just enjoy the money you did and go on with your life! Why risking life once again? Useless, weak, third season

The best episode in the history of the series ... The scene meeting Professor and Tokyo was sad and joyful at the same moment

"La casa de papel" was an excellent TV show, it's been thought to end with the second season and it would have been a good product, not at BB's levels maybe, but a very good one. Despite the plot anomalies (Tokyo was practically useless the entire show, just a plot device; the inspector who became a thief in 2 episodes... and so on) i really appreciated it, and, i admit, i binge watched the first two seasons.

But now it doesn't make sense. The plot device did it again, and the idiot Rio has been caught (really? The whole world is searching you and you trust to an illegal seller of crypted phones? LoL). Until that, it's not so weird. But the others member of the heist who had known him years before for just 5 months, who blame him and Tokyo (rightfully) for a big percentage of the problems which popped up during the heist, that just leave all (money, new life after a no-escape situation...) to SAVE him? The inspector, who reached the Professor to start a new life in Thailand (and that's plausible), that jeopardize herself, her DAUGHTER and her mother to save an unknown idiot who got caught and is being held somewhere? It's totally nonsense, sometimes cringe to watch. That's enough to say a big nope to the entire season. There are maybe excellent episodes in this season, yes, but Netflix just wanted to to its personal money heist, forcing a TV series wide over its limit of plausibility.

My advice is to stop watching after the season 2: a flawed but unique TV product is much better than a totally unrealistic and forced prosecution. And they are planning a season 4, sure. Maybe there the inspector will sell one of her daughter's kidney to buy a new laptop for Rio.

The show's most annoying characters, Rio and the obnoxious Tokyo, manage to make a complete mess once again. So of course everyone is ready to sacrifice money and possibly freedom and life to help them out. Including former incompetent police detective Raquel, who is now Lisboa and does not see anything wrong in jeopardising her daughter and mother (my God, the cringe). I can understand she fell in love and decided to give everything up and start a new life in a tropical paradise with her extremely rich lover, but actually plan and participate in a robbery? After being a cop and (supposedly) a good one at that? Because that is the plan: steal the gold reserves in the Bank of Spain, which will somehow convince the authorities to set Rio free - Rio that we are told over and over (hypothetical descriptions included) is being tortured (cringe again). To do that, they take up a plan the late Berlin had initially put together but had been correctly discarded by the Professor because of its sheer idiocy. Not to mention that Berlin had come up with it in a chapel turned living quarters in a Cistercian monastery (cringe or what). Not to mention said living quarters are covered in artifacts and art items and strongly resembles to what might have been a captain's cabin upon a pirate ship in a Disney film. One could not help but wish that that sociopath that was Berlin were still around to put some sense into their heads. Or maybe Berlin would be thrilled with such a crazy plan, being mentally unstable as he was, but at least he could put some style to it. Oh, and Arturito is now something like a self improvement guru of sorts. No joking. That was a scene one would expect in a US show, but maybe Spain is not immune to this kind of charlatans either. I will watch ep2 just in case the heist makes up for the stupidity the scriptwriters have made me watch, but it can never change the fact that this show should have stopped when the got out safe.