The third season of Balthazar has been up on Acorn via Amazon Prime Video for at least a month. My wife and I saw the first two seasons and loved them. We felt the same and even more about the third season.
Except for the first episode, which was a standalone with Balthazar on an island, and Captain Hélène Bach eventually goes out to retrieve him. That episode was obvious, and all right, at best.
The rest of the season, in contrast, was pure gold. We finally learn who was responsible for Lise's death and [some spoilers ahead, so the usual cautions]
Her relationship to Balthazar, and the impact on Bach, and how Balthazar seeks to resolve this was riveting and top-notch in every way. This fundamental story towered over all the other cases, even in the early episodes in which B & B were absorbed nabbing other villains. And yet these other stories were excellent, too, with all kinds of nice twists and turns.
[super spoilers ahead]
But let's cut to the chase. It was satisfying indeed to see Bach cradling Balthazar in her arms, declaring how much she loved him, after he had maybe been mortally stabbed in the neck by Maya, just as he was about to probably light a match, literally, that might have consumed him and Maya both. But there were two problems in this ending:
1. One, we know that there's going to be a fourth season. Which means we know that Balthazar will survive.
2. And we also know that Hélène de Fougerolles who plays Hélène Bach, and plays her so well, won't be returning to the show (Google that and you'll see). WHAT?! I don't care what the reasons for this are in our off-screen world. The chemistry between Balthazar (also brilliantly played by Tomer Sisley) and Bach was so good, even before that final heart-rending scene, that the fourth season just cries out to see them again. To the producers of the show or whomever: make that happen!
Yeah, I'll watch the fourth season anyway, but I'll miss Captain Bach in every scene she isn't in.
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