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I just found this site (LOVING the discussions) and watched RS when it originally became available, so I will need to re-watch to give any more in-depth commentary but series 3 is positively brilliant and hands down the best of the show and I think that can only be attributed to the freedom of the platform. I sincerely hope they do not alter it when it airs on BBC America! As wayrbunny and ganesh have so insightfully pointed out, the show has been elevated to a level that is truly art. YES! It's as good as a True Detective! I do think it was planned as a series finale but written with a glimmer of hope and possibility. I think the obituary was purposeful so that viewers think - Reid is dead...??? Is he really or was that just the found prepared copy from the newspaper for his likely death? It's the tiny crumb of mystery dangling before us. Hopefully we will be hungry enough for a series 4!

I've been much further north than where this make believe town approximately is (somewhere in Dorset) in March and the weather can be hit or miss. You definitely still need a coat handy but you can also have some warm(ish) days where it's completely appropriate to dress that way. I was not near the coasts during this time but most of the fields were lush and and the grass was green.

Thanks for clearing that up! It just seemed so odd after that beautiful session where Ellie pours her heart out in therapy about all the guilt she's feeling. So I went back and watched that part again and I never would have heard her say that if you hadn't pointed it out. Even though I frequently work in the UK, my American ears sometimes still have a hard time catching things spoken rapidly like that, and without that clarification, the editing really makes it look like -poof, all the sudden there's Fred at Claire's. And even though logically with all the police around the baby should be reasonably safe, I think in the US, people are just more fearful about that sort of thing, so it seemed strange to me. Tom said the woman who gave him the keys just disappeared. They discuss it but it's still a mystery as to who this woman is or why she disappeared. I just thought the exterior looked like the place where the woman with the dog lived.

All excellent points! And are they in the older woman with the dog's camper? Does it not seem odd that she's got a video game set-up? Where the heck is the owner of the place anyway? You know that's gonna figure into the plot somehow. What about Ellie leaving her baby in the car -was he in there during the entire visit to the counselor??? Then during the exhumation and she's not the slightest bit alarmed when there's a probable serial killer lurking about and her infant is by himself in an unattended car?!? I love this show but what is up with that?