Gotta say, I wasn’t expecting the latest season of The Other Two to be it’s final season. It seemed like it finally found a larger audience with its second season move to HBO Max, and I don’t know that anyone else involved was expecting the end either. Word on the gossip street was that the series creators and writers created a pretty toxic work environment that involved verbal abuse and possibly harassment. Who knows? What I do know is that this final season was just as meta and hilarious as the others.
This season picks up in a post-pandemic world where we see our main cast still struggling, but also finding success in the dreams they had for themselves. Brooke’s journey was probably my favorite. While she was awful for hating on Lance for becoming a “good person” (aka, a nurse), during the pandemic, she also served some of the best over-the-top line deliveries and facial expressions. I found myself cackling at a lot of her scenes this season. She herself also tries to become a “good person” by leaving the industry, but constantly found herself battling with the desire to go back and no what’s going on in all corners of the famous-sphere.
Cary, while always hilarious in his own way, was truly an awful person this season. He finally found traction after the endless Night Nurse failures to become a sought after actor. When things started picking up for him he even drove eight hours in a diaper to get to his high school reunion to soak in all the glory of being the most successful person from his class. While I was glad to see Cary get some success, it came at the cost of him being, ironically, a good person. He cast all of his relationships to the wayside, with the most important being his friend, Curtis. He too was finding some mild success, but Cary could never let him have even half a second of a moment. Curtis is a good friend, and it took Cary a long time to realize it.
As far as our other characters go, Pat struggles with her extreme level of fame. She’s so famous that she can’t go anywhere at any time with anyone. She tries to go back home to her old, more simplistic life, but ends up finding herself completely bored. I’m sure that exact scenario does happen to a decent size of the rich and famous population. Pat has some incredibly hilarious scenes with her briefly new boyfriend, Simu Liu, and that man had me crying laughing. Chase on the other hand, is trying to hold onto his fame with anything other than singing because, well…he’s really bad at it. My favorite storyline of his for the season is when he tries to date a “normal girl.” It was genius.
I love how much this series pokes fun at the entertainment industry, and I’m sure more than a lot of it is an accurate representation (also if those rumors are anything to go by, then yeah). Every member of the main and supporting cast totally nail every comedic bit they are given and this season gave me just as much unbridled joy as the other two (unintended). When I first saw that this third season was going to be the last season I was nervous we’d be left hanging, but I felt that it ended perfectly. Both Brooke and Cary get the opportunity to redeem themselves while still living out part of their dreams. Please go watch this!