I get the rift that is brewing from those who stayed with this for the past 3-years. I hardly doubt there is a wide split and quite a few who fall somewhere in between. I would also guess a decent number, maybe even the most populated group in the spectrum feel like: "this is what we've waited, and fervently, watched for?". The writers could have done better and I don't think that is asking too much. This wasn't a "Dallas" template family as that clan tenuously would stay connected in all of the turmoil, adding big-time fuel to the fire of a good story. Bloodline did it early and it set a nice hook. Here everyone turned devilishly from one another and the last, especially the final two, episodes seemed overly doomed and dark without much redeeming anything. You knew everyone was no longer who you once liked. Maybe the writers feel it is a powerful turn, but I think when you burn the important device of having the viewer root for the protagonist, as well as everyone else, something has been squandered. And...there isn't a real final resolution either. This series was too good for most of it's run to end as such. It makes the Sopranos questionable ending look absolutely amazingly brilliant. I'm disappointed as I think many others likely are too. The first and second years: 8 and 7 respectively. This last one: 6.5 with the final two episodes: 5 out of 10.
18 Reviews
Huge Disappointment
brettsanace2 August 2017
Bloodline really should have stopped after 2 seasons (which were great). It started to go downhill as the subject matter transitioned from Danny's story to Kyle's story.
Similarly, the third season started off with promise but just got worse as it progressed. The penultimate episode was a total waste, simply an hour of my life that I will never get back, and the final episode was not much better, and as a series finale was pathetic with barely any resolution of the story-lines and character dilemmas that had been developed throughout the series.
I am just glad that I binge watched all 3 seasons in a week as I would have hated to wait a year in anticipation of Season 3 only to have been so hugely disappointed.
However, seasons 1 & 2 were really good!!!
Similarly, the third season started off with promise but just got worse as it progressed. The penultimate episode was a total waste, simply an hour of my life that I will never get back, and the final episode was not much better, and as a series finale was pathetic with barely any resolution of the story-lines and character dilemmas that had been developed throughout the series.
I am just glad that I binge watched all 3 seasons in a week as I would have hated to wait a year in anticipation of Season 3 only to have been so hugely disappointed.
However, seasons 1 & 2 were really good!!!
Disappointing
dougmacdonaldburr29 May 2017
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The acting is good. The production is good. The writing has been until the last two episodes. There was barely any kind of resolution and this felt very unsatisfying for a last episode. Meg wasn't even in this episode. She was a main character, what is that about? The mother is especially horrible in this episode. She hates her children and her comfortable life. She also constantly does this sort of whisper talking I find annoying. Kevin escapes only to still get caught. Why couldn't they just let him escape? The ending really is a mess. The start of the season was so promising, what happened? All they needed to do was either let the family get away with everything they have done or have everyone find out and them face the consequences. Instead the big finish is John (maybe) about to tell Danny's turd of a son that he killed Danny. Ultimately a disappointment and a waste of potential.
Blame Netflix for this abomination
martytamu2725 February 2020
Florida canceled the tax breaks so Netflix canceled the show instead of paying the difference. Shame. What might have been. The writers had six seasons planned then had to wrap it up abruptly. So there really wasn't a good way to end. It's not like Netflix didn't have money and this was a highly rated Netflix original. Terrible decision to tear it all down. What a compete let down. But not as bad as game of thrones finale. Close tho
Last two episodes suck
scribby-000016 August 2020
I'm not mad, I'm disappointed.
shantellehohnadel5 March 2021
I lied, I'm also mad. And disappointed. I've loved every minute of this show until these last two episodes. I had no idea going into this show that it would end this way and it's so sad. Shame on whoever had a hand in letting this happen.
Acting was still great tho.
Acting was still great tho.
31 episodes of brilliance and then this!
marinejob6 September 2020
A bigger disappointment than game of thrones in my opinion. This show and where it was going had so much potential, they could have easily carried it on for another few seasons. So many loose ends not tied up.
I have watched a lot of box sets and this episode and episode 32 are probably the worst I have witnessed on screen.
Finish at episode 31! Still plot holes galore but it will save you 2 hours of nothingness.
I have watched a lot of box sets and this episode and episode 32 are probably the worst I have witnessed on screen.
Finish at episode 31! Still plot holes galore but it will save you 2 hours of nothingness.
What happened?
kristanmarieanderson9 October 2020
I am not sure if Netflix canceled the show with little notice, or what. But the last two episodes were terrible and didn't fit with the tone or story of the show. This is the most disappointing finale since The Glades.
Puts the show out of its long drawn out misery
VainCape2 July 2017
On the back of the lowest rated filler episode before it, the finale followed in the same vein; unnecessarily dragged out, and filled to the brim with senseless and at times confounding rhetoric.
This seasons and the last few episodes in general, have been a shadow of the former Bloodline bravado, that viewers and fans alike fell in love with. However, this episode left much to be desired and the ending scene itself felt anticlimactic and an almost insult to long time fans.
Faltering and flailing, lingering on its last leg, this finale makes the lethal shot to put this season out its misery. And I'm sure fans will be glad that its finally over... for its own sake.
This seasons and the last few episodes in general, have been a shadow of the former Bloodline bravado, that viewers and fans alike fell in love with. However, this episode left much to be desired and the ending scene itself felt anticlimactic and an almost insult to long time fans.
Faltering and flailing, lingering on its last leg, this finale makes the lethal shot to put this season out its misery. And I'm sure fans will be glad that its finally over... for its own sake.
Falls apart with no resolution
Gilbert-Judy15 May 2018
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What happened? So many loose ends? We never even see meg in the episode and why have Kevin get caught? The mom goes on to do what? And the main character John who your grown to see how complex he is is leaving the viewer with no final resolution to the dilemma we've seen for three seasons. Poorly finished. I was mad I binged watched this when I could have been doing something more satisfying
Wish I read the reviews on this episode, would have saved my time
Zeric10010 May 2021
The last two episodes were just terrible. Clearly the show had been cancelled and all the momentum just vanished. It seems like this wasn't even written by the usual writing team. Like the prior episode, it meandered in and out of John's reality making it hard to follow and directionless, then it ended. Many questions unanswered, we don't know what happened to most of the characters. It honestly would have been better just to end it two episodes back, that last two episodes didn't add anything.
As season 3 progressed, we saw less and less of Linda Cardellini, to the point she disappeared altogether, other than past b roll footage. Surprising Sissy Spacek didn't also distance herself.
As season 3 progressed, we saw less and less of Linda Cardellini, to the point she disappeared altogether, other than past b roll footage. Surprising Sissy Spacek didn't also distance herself.
If only they had had a plan
JamieClay12 June 2017
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I'm not sure when the writers were told this would be the last season but I suspect they already had a number of scripts for season 3 done already and just tried to paint themselves out of a corner.
The last two episodes fell flat and were pretty dishonest to the audience, especially the 'altered states' episode (#9).
The sad thing is they could have done some cool stuff and sort of touched on it as the series got near the end.
====SPOILER==== (sort of not really but...)
The thing they eluded to was that Kevin was actually Roy's kid. With that in mind it could have made the story wrap-up more interesting if the kids (one by one) discovered that the abusive man they called their father was in fact sterile and that NONE of them were his. None of them were from Robert Rayburn's bloodline.
It could have been even MORE twisted if John shared a dad with Eric and Chelsea O'Bannon!
Oh well opportunity lost. It's hard to recommend this series knowing the outcome. Even though there were some good moments, in the end the story telling failed the audience.
The last two episodes fell flat and were pretty dishonest to the audience, especially the 'altered states' episode (#9).
The sad thing is they could have done some cool stuff and sort of touched on it as the series got near the end.
====SPOILER==== (sort of not really but...)
The thing they eluded to was that Kevin was actually Roy's kid. With that in mind it could have made the story wrap-up more interesting if the kids (one by one) discovered that the abusive man they called their father was in fact sterile and that NONE of them were his. None of them were from Robert Rayburn's bloodline.
It could have been even MORE twisted if John shared a dad with Eric and Chelsea O'Bannon!
Oh well opportunity lost. It's hard to recommend this series knowing the outcome. Even though there were some good moments, in the end the story telling failed the audience.
Sadly a disappointing ending.
ysteinfunderud8 June 2017
Everything has been built up to this episode. It's an hour long but there is no good ending with the conflicts that has been lasting for two whole seasons. It seems like the writer has been rushing it and just wanted it to end. You could almost say it's a lesser version of the ending of Lost.
Underwhelming
dierregi7 March 2022
Major anticlimactic ending for a story that lost steam many episodes ago. The "cursed" theme is played with a very heavy hand, with Sally losing it completely and rambling on about the birth of her children and Kevin not getting away with anything, plus a ton of things implied but not developed (Was Roy Kevin's father? Why the Ozzy character was brought back and then eliminated? The same about Nolan's mother: weren't Ozzy and her supposed to be a bad couple doing bad things to the Rayburn?)
Piled on top of that, Diana also got her rambling monologue and John continued staring into the void, incapable of stringing two words together. But the worst, heavily compounded sin is the ghost of relatives past having conversations with the living (yes, I am talking about you, Danny... but also Sally's mother). Altogether the message received is that there is no worst place than the Florida Keys and one must always tell the truth or else, and it took them 33 episodes to deliver.
Piled on top of that, Diana also got her rambling monologue and John continued staring into the void, incapable of stringing two words together. But the worst, heavily compounded sin is the ghost of relatives past having conversations with the living (yes, I am talking about you, Danny... but also Sally's mother). Altogether the message received is that there is no worst place than the Florida Keys and one must always tell the truth or else, and it took them 33 episodes to deliver.
Very disappointing with one bright spot
thebrain5810 May 2021
A disappointing ending to a series that had been steadily going downhill pretty much all of season 3.
The lone bright spot - never again having to suffer thorough Sissy Spacek whisper/talking 75% of her dialogue regardless of context or scene. She almost made this show unwatchable for me.
The lone bright spot - never again having to suffer thorough Sissy Spacek whisper/talking 75% of her dialogue regardless of context or scene. She almost made this show unwatchable for me.
And???
nealvan55715 January 2022
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This show ended like a jet plane trying to land without wings. It crashed. So much skipped over just to have an ending could be worse than getting cancelled without an ending. Loved Sissy Spacek's acting, but if there was a storyline other than we're screwed and everything is gone. Oh, and by the way...Kevin, his wife, and their baby boy Rocky have been caught and heading back to the USA for trial. Who would dumb enough to even take a cellphone, let alone have one with a tracker app turned on running from the Feds?? The episode stank especially as a series conclusion. Seems like the show was planning on at least another season was intended, but those geniuses at Netflix, allowed this one of their few good shows drop.
Unresolved, unfilled plot holes
rkt-573386 April 2024
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So the final scene was left like that so we, the viewers could decide what John does. Isn't that the writer's job? And where'd Meg go? LA for good and changed her name? And we never find out what happened in Episode 9. Did John really almost die free diving? And who saved him, because he was alone in the middle of nowhere, with no other boats around. Or did he attempt suicide? We'll never know. The Kevin heading to Cuba was a good twist, didn't see that coming, but they went there because Cuba doesn't extradite. So then why did the DEA find Kevin and family in Cuba and arrest him? Or was he not in Cuba? The sheriff said his wife left her locations on, but didn't say where they were, and the police that led the DEA to them weren't US police, so I assume they were Cuban. So did the writers forget that they had Kevin flee there to avoid extradition? And what about the sale of the house? Sally was told the place would be underwater in 10 years, but here it is 2024, 7 years later, and there are no signs it'll be underwater in 3 years. Was that just to appease the climate activists? Netflix shows have a way of starting off strong, then fizzling out or just turning bad. This show is no different.
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