Episode Guide
We’re back – Aikido – 4/5 Review score: 4/5 48 Meters Underground – 3.5/5 Boom, Boom, Ciao – 3.5/5 The Red Boxes – 3.75/5 Everything Seemed Insignificant – 2.75/5 A Quick Vacation – 3.25/5 Astray – 2.75/5
This series is a must-watch for anyone who enjoys tense, well-made dramas with a global reach. La Casa De Papel is a must-watch for anyone who enjoys tense, well-made dramas with a global reach.
After successfully escaping from the authorities in the second season, La Casa De Papel returns to find the gang enjoying paradise. Rio is captured on a remote island, forcing Tokyo out of hiding and calling on the Professor’s help once more to get her lover back. What follows is an elaborate plan to siphon gold out of the Bank Of Spain whilst demanding Rio be returned to them. ..
As the story progresses, we see different characters come and go, some of which have a significant impact on the outcome. The Professor is forced to make difficult decisions, and Raquel provides valuable support. Sierra is a valuable asset to the team, but she must be careful not to get too close to either of her opponents. As the conflict unfolds, we are privy to new information that helps us understand what is happening and why.
The series has been criticized for its lack of plot, but La Casa De Papel cleverly addresses this through the ideas of love and chaos. It’s a clever ploy and one that ties the entire series together and shows just how messy emotions can be in a situation like this. Even The Professor, who was always the calm and collected puppet master, admits that the mistakes made were party his fault due to falling in love. It helps to paper over any issues with the previous season whilst cleverly foreshadowing events to happen here.
The first two seasons of La Casa De Papel are great, but the third part is even better. The show has more action, tense chases, and a whole myriad of different characters engaging in the heist. The return of the red coveralls and Dali masks are always a nice inclusion and early on, La Casa De Papel does a surprisingly good job of tying the seasons together after a perfect ending last time out. Expect zeppelins, RPG hits, helicopter chases and tense gunfights across all 8 episodes. Netflix have really gone all out here to make the third part as exciting and action-packed as possible.
Despite some issues, the season is still going strong. The new faces and more screen time given to The Professor make for a more interesting story, while Palermo is a nice inclusion and seeing Berlin back in the flashbacks shows just how crucial he was to the antagonistic threat last time out. The returning group have instant chemistry together though after their initial emotional reunion. This helps to keep things moving at a consistent pace.
If you enjoyed the first two seasons of La Casa De Papel (Money Heist), you can’t really go wrong here. The series may not have the same allure and surprising tension the first had in abundance, but it does do well to recreate the same level of exciting, fast-paced action we’ve seen before. There’s some good themes this time around about love and the nods toward the perfect plan being a myth, does well to give this a self-realized, human feel. The cliffhanger ending is a little disappointing but there’s enough thrills and excitement here to look past that, even if the show doesn’t quite hit the same level the first achieved. With the promise of war to come, who knows how far La Casa De Papel will go to conclusively wrap up this tale but given what we’ve seen before, I doubt we’re going to get a fairytale ending to this one.
