Season 3 - 10 episodes (2023 February 23)
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Created by: Shannon Burke, Jonas Pate, Josh Pate
Starring: Chase Stokes, Madelyn Cline, Madison Bailey, Jonathan Daviss, Rudy Pankow, Austin North, Charles Esten
Rated: TV-MA
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Plot
A group of teenagers from the wrong side of the tracks stumble upon a treasure map that unearths a long buried secret.
Verdict
Each season becomes more outlandish than the last and the first season ended so over the top it was silly. This season includes a lot of drama, but it almost always seems forced into the plot just for the sake of it. This show offers cheap thrills with very little character development or a plot past chase the treasure. This season ends well, finally concluding this adventure, and the promise of their next adventure is intriguing. There's certainly an audience for a show like this that goes all in on adventure and teenage drama. This season's credibility, really the series, relies on the concept that you won't ask why or how. It's more of a fantasy show.
Skip it.
Review
The first season was okay, but there was too much teenage drama. The second season boasts even more over the top drama with fake outs, alliances, and cartoonish villains. To recap season two, the Pogues had found the treasure but lose it. They try to get it back, but that season also introduced another treasure, the cross of Santa Domingo. Coincidentally Pope is related to the person that hid the cross. The Ward family, which are villains except for Pogue elect Sarah attempt to flee. That season ends with a big surprise, when we meet an oft-mentioned character. This season is more treasure hunting as the kids travel the globe on a search for treasure.
This show lives on drama, whether it's teenage romance, changing alliances, or wild villains. Characters don't make decisions that are logical, they make decisions that will heighten drama. The problem I have with this show is I'm constantly thinking why would they do that, who would let them do that, how have thy gotten this far. If you can get past that, you might like this show.
This show wasn't content with treasure, we needed a holy artifact that was introduced in season two. Now we get a mythical city, and I'm not sure the holy artifact adventure was ever properly concluded. This season includes a lot, but the drama always feels forced to pad episodes. Some of the plans enacted are so silly and half baked that I don't know how they make it out of the driveway.
Characters that are enemies frequently team up. John B is isolated this season due to the appearance of a relative. The show also decides his relationship with Sarah needs extra drama. There's no reason for this other than cheap thrills. I wish the show tried to ground some of these decisions, but this is a soap opera. Sarah's brother Rafe is one of the villains this season, and he really does very little other than scream and wave a gun around.
I began to wonder if this season would wrap the story line at all. Each season has ended on a cliffhanger resolving very little, and even with a couple episodes left it didn't seem like this season would conclude the adventure. Surprisingly it does end the treasure hunt. Because of that I like how this season ends. This show is outlandish, if not fun. It really feels like an adventure a kid would imagine. This show has been renewed for a fourth season, though that will be a completely new adventure based on the final episode.
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