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| HBO | Season Premiere Date: September 14, 2020 |
Summary:
Sam (Jude Law) ends up on an island and finds inhabitants who want to protect their rituals at all costs while Helen (Naomie Harris) comes to the island looking for answers in this limited series created by Dennis Kelly and Felix Barrett.
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Action & Adventure, Suspense
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Season 1 Episodes
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S1:E6. Last Day - The Dark
Air Date: October 19, 2020
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S1:E5. Tuesday - The Daughter
Air Date: October 12, 2020
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S1:E5. Tuesday - The Daughter
Air Date: October 12, 2020
Nov 30, 2020
“The Third Day” runs haywire in so many directions the fear is it might pull a “Lost” and amount to nothing. But by the third episode it’s clear that’s not the case; writer Dennis Kelly ties it all together in wondrous fashion and then lets the firestorm burn on. It’s glorious stuff.
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Sep 14, 2020
Dramatic reveals notwithstanding, the second segment of “Third Day” doesn’t have the same level of manic, violent, urgent madness as the first, but thanks in large part to Harris’ riveting work as a fiercely protective mother not to be trifled with, it’s just as involving. Episode 5 ends on a note that promises many of the major mysteries on Osea will be solved in the finale. Can’t wait.
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Sep 15, 2020
If you’ve seen The Wicker Man, you can probably guess that things only get weirder once they arrive. Yet for all its familiarity, The Third Day, an eerily beautiful psychological thriller rarely comes across as derivative. ... [The second half of the miniseries'] frosty, gray seasonal backdrop might deserve more blame than the cast and crew for its initial tedium. In any case, the action picks up toward the end of the first hour.
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Sep 14, 2020
The conceit is executed well; we don’t feel manipulated by Barrett, Kelly and their writers deliberately hiding things or throwing us red herrings. But we’re not 100 percent engaged by Sam’s story, either. ... The performances of Law and Waterson, as well as the chemistry between Watson and Considine as the weirdly gruff and cheery Martins are keeping us interested.
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Sep 14, 2020
Collider
Sep 14, 2020
The Third Day is as lost and directionless as its characters. By the time you reach the end of the “Summer” section, you’re left with as many — if not more — questions as you have answers. You’ll feel slightly dazzled from its aesthetic pleasures, as it’s a show where the setting is as much as characters as the bodies that populate it, but your mileage may vary on how invested you feel by the time you get to the hurried, slightly sweaty second half to the final “Summer.”
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The Independent
Sep 16, 2020
The problem is that the uncanny Wiccan hamlet, full of people in animal masks and weaponised Morris dancers, is a cliche that has already been flogged to death (and really cannot be presented with a straight face in the wake of League of Gentlemen). Law’s character, meanwhile, is too dull for us to care what he’s secretly up to. Fireworks may follow further down the line as the pagan festival kicks off in Osea. For now, though, this isn’t so much Burning Man in Essex as a prestige TV damp squib.
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Sep 16, 2020
Knowing nothing about this going into the first episode within 10 minutes I figured out this is a Wickerman redux, english countryside old celt/druid stuff, but it's achingly slow. The cast is jam packed with talent, but I'm not feeling it, might tune in to episode 2, might not.
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Jan 25, 2021
A series that doesn't really kick into gear until it's second half and even then it remains disappointing.
It builds the atmosphere nicely, but the plot comes across as a second rate Wickerman and leaves too many questions unanswered.
One of the most disappointing shows of 2020.
It builds the atmosphere nicely, but the plot comes across as a second rate Wickerman and leaves too many questions unanswered.
One of the most disappointing shows of 2020.
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: September 14, 2020
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S1:E6. Last Day - The Dark
Air Date: October 19, 2020
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S1:E5. Tuesday - The Daughter
Air Date: October 12, 2020
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S1:E5. Tuesday - The Daughter
Air Date: October 12, 2020
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S1:E4. Monday - The Mother
Air Date: October 5, 2020
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S1:E4. Monday - The Mother
Air Date: October 5, 2020
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S1:E3. Sunday - The Ghost
Air Date: September 28, 2020
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S1:E3. Sunday - The Ghost
Air Date: September 28, 2020
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S1:E2. Saturday - The Son
Air Date: September 21, 2020
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S1:E2. Saturday - The Son
Air Date: September 21, 2020
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S1:E1. Friday - The Father
Air Date: September 14, 2020
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S1:E1. Friday - The Father
Air Date: September 14, 2020
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Season 1 Overview