Control Z Season 3 review: Phew! It's over and out

Even after it has ended, Control Z doesn't accomplish anything because the third season of the show doesn't add anything new to what has already been established.

A still from Control Z

Control Z Season 3

Story:

The group immediately agrees to keep their involvement secret and never bring it up again following Susana's unintentional death. The gang is going to graduate and realise their aspirations 15 months later. Everything is looking good for them until @todostussecretos reactivates and threatens to take away what they cherish most: their brilliant and shining future. Once more, Sofía must uncover the perpetrators of this new menace before it's too late.

Review:

While writing the review for the second season of Control Z, I had hoped that there wouldn't be a third season. The second season disappointed me to the fullest with unnecessary subplots, twists, and turns when the solution to the mystery was lying then and there. The previous season ended with Susanna dying accidentally during a tug of war for a bag of money with the students. 

Here, one can blindly say that everyone was involved in the death, as it could have been anyone who died. Well, that was a great way to end the series altogether. But, no! The creators, Carlos Quintanilla Sakar, Adriana Pelusi, and Miguel Garca Moreno, decided to add a new twist by making Susanna's dead body vanish from the site and placing it at her house instead. Who did it, and why, to simply rule it out as suicide so that all those criminal-minded students are safe?

The twist doesn't end there... The infamous account "@allyoursecrets_" is reactivated and starts haunting the people who were present when Susanna was dropped dead from the roof of the school. This commences the eight-episode long third season, which is 90% snoozefest and stretched a lot for no reason.

The three seasons have all adhered to the same fundamental format wherein a group of high school kids are being tormented by a hacker who is leaking their most carefully held secrets, so the students, especially socially awkward amateur detective Sofia, try to figure out who is hurting them and why.

The above twists become the case file for Sofía this season, who slowly and gradually realises whom she should trust despite everyone being equally involved in the crime. However, she takes the charge and nothing works according to her, which leads to more stretched sequences until she takes the matter into her own hands.

As I was keeping up with my energy in not knowing all their secrets, it seemed like even the characters were fed up with the same threats being thrown at them via the same pattern. How many more secrets about a group of high school students will be revealed, and how much more damage will be done?

Ana Valeria Becerril as Sofía Herrera continues being the amateur detective while she continues to juggle between two guys (typical!) — Michael Ronda as Javier Williams and Yankel Stevan as Raúl León. Amid that, it seems like the attention both the guys seek is more to get Sofa to date them than a cover-up of the crimes and wrongdoings they have committed over time.

Going by the genre of teenage drama, the show runs its course by the time the first episode is completed. The struggle is more about completing the show in some or other way than knowing who is the secret-spiller of the gang this time. 

We see that the relationship dynamics also change this time, but it fails to serve anything as a catalyst to the screenplay of the series. Patricio Gallardo as Gerardo Granda, aka Gerry, is slowly coming out of the closet but still faces going public with it. The character arc shown in his reformation is slightly interesting, but nothing that adds any good value to the series.

But, phew! The Spanish-language Mexican show Control Z has finally ended, which could have been better if they did it within the two seasons. 

Verdict:

Control Z is among those teenage dramas that are stuck in a loop until the very end of the show. It gets nowhere even after it has ended, as the show has run its course a long time ago and brings nothing new to the table in the third season.

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