Bored to Death: Season 3
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 20, 2009
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3
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  • Summary: The third season continues the private investigations by Jonathan, George, and Ray.
  • Genre(s): Comedy

Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 3
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 3
  3. Negative: 0 out of 3
  1. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Paul Rice
    Oct 7, 2011
    75
    The characters are caricatures of their dope-smoking, wine-swilling, Gore Vidal-quoting selves, falling into ever-more absurd scenarios and playing a kind of intellectual high-wire act that allows us to laugh along with the antics, but also, importantly, observe them from a safe remove.
  2. PopMatters
    Reviewed by: Marisa Carroll
    Oct 20, 2011
    70
    Despite its gratuitous nudity, double-crossing gunplay, and growing pile of corpses, Bored to Death is a remarkably gentle show and its characters surprisingly lovable.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ken Tucker
    Oct 10, 2011
    58
    Ted Danson and Zach Galifianakis steal scenes with charm and zaniness, respectively. Galifianakis actually kidnaps the show by breastfeeding.

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  1. TastyJamProject
    10
    Season 3 of Bored to Death has taken the offbeat complexity of season 1 with the hilarious craziness of the second season and put them together. Bored to Death is better than ever, and season 3 looks like the best yet.… Expand
  2. MukkaMadBoy
    9
    Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis, and Ted Danson kill it in this season. Zach plays the exact character he does in everything, we havent seen that since early Will Farrell. Bored to death is a great smokers series Danson shows that very well throughout.… Expand
  3. Seriosity
    8
    Good for the very same reasons the first 2 seasons are. The stories are a little wonkier this time; sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The finale is also underwhelming. My least favorite season, but it's all very close anyway. 7.9/10… Expand
  4. EvanS
    7
    It edges on the oh-so-clever-cute universe of Dave Eggers (and John Hodgeman in anything is nails on a chalkboard for me), but the shows flies on the merits of its stars.… Expand

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