Immediately after clicking play, something feels off. The series, which originally aired on Comedy Central before Max resurrected it for season two, changed shape as the two leads went from pathetic strivers to pathetic success stories, left to face who you are after you get the only thing you care about. The show has relentlessly, cleverly skewered the ambitions of the Hollywood-adjacent for three strong seasons, and this year played with the idea of Cary and Brooke finally approaching what they so desperately wanted. The Other Two is often brutal, and that’s what makes it great. In the design of the season, this all makes sense. “I’m an embarrassment to my family,” she says at one point.
Brooke ( Heléne Yorke), the manager of her relatively famous younger brother Chase ( Case Walker) and mother Pat ( Molly Shannon), has gone on a season-long quest to prove to the world she can be “good,” by doing various not-so-good things-and almost gets there before it all blows up in her face. Cary ( Drew Tarver), the actor whose streaming TV-series breakout has put him on the radar for an Oscar campaign, unravels as he stalks his agent over the prestige project’s status. If The Other Two’s third season has been fueled by the mortifying emotional downfall of its fame-starved antiheroes, its finale marks the moment they finally hit rock bottom.
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T his review contains spoilers about the series finale of The Other Two.
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