Full Circle Episode 3 Review: An occult plot. A botched kidnapping. A face from the past. Directed by Steven Soderbergh (Mosaic) and written by Ed Solomon, HBO Max’s new thriller stars Timothy Olyphant, Claire Danes, Zazie Beetz, CCH Pounder and Jim Gaffigan. The series will have six episodes in total, each with a duration of 50 minutes approx.
Full Circle Episode 3 Review Contains Spoilers
The first two episodes of Full Circle had more to hide than show and managed to get hold of our interest. Episode 3 pretty much sums up the first part of the series and we can tell that a whole new chapter is going to unravel in the next episode. Again, there are three storylines that move ahead in a distinct manner despite being essentially linked. Here’s more.
Full Circle Episode 3 Review
Inspector Melody finally gets a team to work with on the case concerning the Washington Square Park event. The FBI and NYPD are on it too. A conversation with the Brownes, Samantha and Derek, tells Melody AKA Mel that there might be secrets that the two are keeping from each other, especially the husband. Further research reveals that Jeffrey McCusker aka Jeff has a brother Gene McCusker who was involved in some incident in Guyana and removed from his post as a result of it.
Then a woman named Charisse arrives and the father of her son Nicky who has been taken is none other than Derek Browne. Now, the last scene of Episode 2 starts making sense. The person that Derek saw was Nicky. He had run away from home a few months ago but she didn’t tell the police because she doesn’t consider herself to be a mother figure so to speak. She used to send him money but the last time she did, it wasn’t withdrawn. This got her worried and brought her to the police.
Derek meets his lawyer to speak about a 16-year-old paternity agreement that Samantha doesn’t seem to know about. He wonders if the disappearance of this child, and his potential death, can give his ex-wife (Charisse) a chance to file a case against him or not. He then meets Charisse and tells her what’s going on. Meanwhile, Samantha, who knows about Charisse, reaches out to Manfred “Manny” Broward (Mel’s colleague) whom she knows from long back. It has something to do with a Guyana deal that involved her father Jeffrey and her uncle Gene.
Nicky is in a hotel room with Louis’s sister Natalia and doesn’t want to go back home. He tells her that his parents are better off without him. This means that he knows how things are between Charisse and Derek. Maybe that’s the reason why he ran away and lives alone. She tells Louis that they should return Nicky (whom they are addressing as Jared) and find another way to get hold of cash with which they can return home. This might get tricky because it involves ratting out Ms. Mahabir’s moves to her competitor Edward Chung.
Things get worse as Aked realizes that the guy they killed, and apparently buried, isn’t Jared at all. And it was Louis who buried the body, something that we now know he didn’t. So while Aked thinks that someone else is buried in place of Jared, that someone else is not there but in some hotel room with Louis and Natalia. Be that as it may, Louis snitched. It’s only a matter of time before Ms. Mahabir finds out about this and we do not know what she will do.
Full Circle Episode 3 Review: Final Thoughts
A lot of things come to light in this episode and I have to say that I am enjoying it. This is the first episode that explores the secrets that have been kept hidden for a long time. Let’s not forget that Louis and Xavier are from Guyana, the same place that stores the pasts of Jeffrey McCusker and Gene McCusker as well as the secrets of the Guyana deal that Manny mentioned to Samantha. Louis and Natalia intend to return Nicky who they think is Jared to his parents. But my question who did Louis bury in the ground if not Nicky? Episode 4 has a lot in store.
Full Circle is streaming on HBO Max. If you are in India, you can watch it on Jio Cinema.
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