Trailer for the third season in the series "Legendary Journey" (Apple TV Plus)
Watching the new episodes of "Mythic Quest" brings to mind two other comic series.
One is "What Happens in the Shadows" - after the last episode of its 2021 season devoured the cards and spread all the characters everywhere, this year the fourth season arrived and almost everything returned to normal in a cowardly, lackluster and shiny way.
The second series is "Ted Lasso", whose second and problematic-even-so-so season produced a Christmas episode that is kitschy and nauseating in its sweetness, sometimes a fear of sugar poisoning, sometimes a danger of a diabetic coma.
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After a faltering second season, "Legendary Journey" renews its days as before, and does so while avoiding the bumps that both these series fell into.
"Journey" also ended its previous season with total upheavals: Ian (Rob McKhalny, who also created the series with Charlie Day and Megan Ganz) and Poppy (Charlotte Nickdow) left the company they headed in favor of a new venture.
Brad (Danny Fudi) took the blame for insider trading and was sent to prison.
Rachel (Ashley Birch) left her job as a game tester in favor of studying at Berkeley, and her partner Dana (Imani Hakim) also went to study development at the company's expense.
Do not hesitate to challenge themselves.
"Legendary Journey" Season 3 (Photo: Apple TV Plus)
The plot of the third season, which began on Friday on Apple TV Plus (and all its episodes were sent in advance for review), jumps a year in time and shows what has happened since then.
Ian and Poppy work in a new office with Luke Halli in the same building as their old company.
Brad's sentence is shortened for good behavior and he starts working as a waiter at 'Legendary Journey'.
David (David Hornsby), who became the boss in the absence of the founders, becomes the spearhead in trying to turn the beloved game into a movie.
Jo (Jessie Ennis), who became Brad's right-hand man in the previous season, returned to being David's personal assistant.
Dana returns to work with Ian and Poppy after they fund her course, and Rachel also finds her way back into the building.
Although "Legendary Journey" preserves the changes and their effect on the characters and their dynamics, it continues (or returns, and this too after two weaker opening episodes) to be the same fun, inclusive and funny series.
She uses the changes to freshen up, and does so cleverly.
Rachel, for example, is a character who from the beginning was sketched as intolerable, a kind of militant and anal politically correct manifesto embodied in a woman.
Not only that "Legendary Journey" acknowledges this with sarcastic comments in her direction, but also directs Rachel to areas that challenge the way she perceives herself, revealing additional layers of her personality.
The separation between her and Dayna is also beneficial for both.
The relationship that develops between them in the first season was indeed cute, but after that each of them mainly emphasized the tiring sides of the other.
Now they are still together but for the first time in the series they are presented to us separately, which enriches the character and way of each of them.
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The separation did them good.
"Legendary Journey" Season 3 (Photo: Apple TV Plus)
It's not just a refresh that comes from different connections between the familiar characters, but the season also includes teaming up between characters that we may have already seen together in the past, only one of them has changed a lot in a way that reflects on everything.
For example, Brad is still the same ambitious capitalist who is just looking for ways to collect money from the players, but now doing it from the bottom of the ladder and starting to wonder if these challenges are too small for him.
In his current role, his every interface with the others creates something new and intriguing.
But the best example of the old yet being new is that of Joe and David.
The two were already a successful pair at the beginning of the series, when Jo served as his personal assistant while trying to get closer to the center of power, Ian.
But after Brad's brother cheated on her last season and almost put her in jail, this time Jo is much more diligent, obedient and humble, at least in front of David.
Instead of undermining the boss, she actually does her job, and she channels her tendency to bully people into helping David realize his power and role.
At the same time, she tries to make friends for herself despite her lack of experience in the field.
It's a real upgrade of her character, who was one of the most exaggerated in the series and this time becomes something much more quantified, in a way that makes her both more believable and funnier.
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The happy surprise.
"Legendary Journey" Season 3 (Photo: Apple TV Plus)
The bold bet made by "Legendary Journey" paid off.
The changes breathe life into the third season of "Legendary Journey", and also cover up the parts that are less uplifting in it - although they really don't crash - such as the exploits of Ian and Poppy: even though, unlike in the past, Poppy is the one who is supposed to lead the joint project this time, and even that the two learn things about themselves New, their dynamics remain similar to what we have already seen before.
However, they too get credit for trying to diversify, which also includes another episode that goes back in time to thicken their and the show's mythology.
This is what is successful in "Legendary Journey".
Even when she loses her way, it is evident that this is part of the adventure - as befits its name - and not an attempt to settle for what seems to work.
The new season illustrates even more that at this stage the creators prefer to add and poke around the characters and challenge them and themselves, which allows the series to reach new comedic realms without losing what makes it what it is.
Accordingly, if the scrappy Christmas episode (and not only because it aired in August) of "Ted Lasso" felt like a total and excessive dedication to its Holmer characteristics, that of "Legendary Journey" that will arrive in December is a smart and heartfelt distillation of what works in it: a human connection that transcends the different points of view among all the characters.
Like a computer game that unites people from all over the world, "Legendary Journey" continues to harness the desire to belong for the sake of creating a community, or in this case - re-kneading one.
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