{"id":8094,"date":"2021-12-01T13:06:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T12:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1527745"},"modified":"2021-12-01T13:27:13","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T12:27:13","slug":"lost-in-space-season-3-review-netflix-sci-fis-final-outing-is-the-show-at-its-best","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/lost-in-space-season-3-review-netflix-sci-fis-final-outing-is-the-show-at-its-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in Space season 3 review: Netflix sci-fi\u2019s final outing is the show at its best"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Steve O’Brien\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Wednesday, 01 December 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Well, this has been a long time coming. Sadly, we on Earth didn\u2019t have the option of going into cryogenic suspension after the cliffhanger ending of Lost in Space<\/a> season two in 2019, so it\u2019s been an agonising two-year wait to find out what happened after the robots\u2019 attack on the Resolute and after the Jupiter escaped through that rift.<\/p>\n

Given that two years is a long wait in production time and that child actors grow up fast, season three picks up some time after that season two closer. It\u2019s Will (played by the ever-excellent Maxwell Jenkins) who\u2019s aged the most noticeably, with a newly broken voice and having shot up a good few inches (even Dr Smith acknowledges he\u2019s now taller than she is).<\/p>\n

Having the 97 children parted from the adults for a full year means these kids have matured a lot in that time, and it\u2019s been Judy who\u2019s been keeping them together. With the adults elsewhere and much of the first few episodes here focusing on the teens, much of season three has more of a YA vibe than ever before. And be warned because this is a full spoiler review<\/strong>.<\/p>

It takes a few episodes for the Robinsons to be reunited, and by mid-season, season three Lost in Space feels much like season one Lost in Space. It\u2019s here that the gang speculate why the robots have recently scanned, but not killed Don (\u201clike they were trying to guess my price at a supermarket,\u201d he quips).<\/p>\n

It turns out that the human body is, at an atomic level, regularly impacted by its environment (\u201csome scientists think this makes our bodies like a point on the map of the universe,\u201d points out Maureen) and that by following these cosmic breadcrumbs anyone with the right technology can travel to wherever that person has visited. And Don has been to Alpha Centauri.<\/p>\n

Desperate to stop the Robots from setting off to the humans\u2019 new home, Will confronts SAR and is stabbed through the heart. With the teenager close to death, the Jupiter sets off to alert the colonists of the imminent attack. While there, Will is given an artificial heart, while John and Maureen are told, to their horror, that the planet has no defence system. Later, it turns out there **is** one, and it\u2019s Hastings (a wonderfully oily Douglas Hodge) who knows how to access it. The downside is that it can only be activated with a list of random words spoken out loud by just one man \u2013 the deceased Ben Adler.<\/p>\n

Compiling an audio file of the command words, extracted from various voicemails and videos of Adler before he died, the colonists manage to trigger the planet\u2019s defence system, but the Robots still manage to get through. It\u2019s Will who works out what they\u2019re after \u2013 it\u2019s the alien engine from SAR\u2019s ship, which the robots plan to use as a bomb.<\/p>\n