The Other Two Season 3 is the final season of the HBO Max comedy from Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider, and it goes out swinging. The 10 episodes push the Dubek family's fame satire into darker and messier territory, with Heléne Yorke's Brooke and Drew Tarver's Cary spiraling harder than ever while Molly Shannon's Pat and Case Walker's Chase sit a little further back. It gets uncomfortable on purpose, and it still manages to care about these people.
The Other Two Season 3 Plot: What Is a Good Person?
What is a good person? That question hangs over the entire season. Brooke is engaged to Lance (Josh Segarra), a nurse who keeps getting praised for being a good person, and she's tired of hearing about it. After driving a decoy photo of Chase's armpit all the way to Los Angeles, she decides she's done with the industry and signs up for a tree planting charity so she can feel as altruistic as Lance. It doesn't stick. She keeps sneaking back to help Streeter (Ken Marino) and Shuli (Wanda Sykes) manage Chase's career, and the lies pile up until Lance finally calls her out in "Cary & Brooke Go to an AIDS Play." Are the actions what matters or are the intentions more important? The season never lets Brooke off the hook for that one.
Cary's Season 3 Story, Lucas, and Drew Tarver's Performance
Cary spends the season trying to keep his acting momentum alive, and it costs him. His boyfriend Lucas (Fin Argus) is a method actor who goes from role to role without ever breaking character, so Cary is basically dating a different person every few episodes. When Lucas finally has nothing lined up, he ends up wandering around aimlessly until his husband and mother find him, and that reveal is hilarious. Cary's obsession with landing an award-winning role eventually drives a wedge between him and his best friend Curtis (Brandon Scott Jones), and Drew Tarver plays him as someone who knows exactly what he's doing wrong and does it anyway. Then there's Cary riding Simu Liu, and I could not stop laughing at that. A stretch of the season built almost entirely around Cary's auditions is a great showcase for Tarver's timing.
Pat, Chase, and Streeter in The Other Two Season 3
Pat has her own TV network now, along with a security detail to keep the fans away, and Molly Shannon plays her fame fatigue with the same sincerity that has always grounded the show. Her breakup with Streeter comes from a real place, since her level of celebrity makes a normal life impossible, and Ken Marino immediately turns it into a custody discussion about adult children, complete with a room for both Brooke and Cary at his place. When Brooke shows up after her breakup with Lance, she picks Cary's room, which is covered in 90s pop icons, and I laughed seeing Justin Timberlake on the walls. Pat's trip back to Ohio to reconnect with her old life goes sideways fast, and the moment she figures out that the Applebee's is fake is truly priceless. Chase gets less screen time, but his engagement to Kiernan Shipka and a bad boy rebrand that blows up in everyone's face give Case Walker plenty to play with.
The Other Two Season 3 Themes and Satire
The season's central idea is that doing good is hard, especially when the point of doing good is being seen doing it. Brooke's night of "undeniable good" for Chase is a charity event built on a lie, and her need to prove Lance can't be that selfless pushes her to extremes the show never went near in earlier seasons. Cary's arc mirrors hers from the career side, where wanting recognition slowly eats away at the relationships that actually mattered. The satire has more bite than Season 1 or Season 2, and the writing is comfortable letting scenes get awkward and stay awkward. Not every episode is easy to sit through, and that's clearly intentional.
The Other Two Series Finale and Season 3 Rating
The Other Two ended with Season 3, and the finale "Brooke & Cary & Curtis & Lance" opens with a flashback to when all four of them were nobodies, which is a smart way to show what the Dubek kids lost along the way. The harsher tone won't land for everyone who fell for the lighter Season 1, but the ambition behind it is obvious, and three seasons of chemistry between Yorke, Tarver, Shannon, and Marino let even small moments hit. The Other Two Season 3 earns a 9.2 out of 10. The final season of The Other Two is streaming now on HBO Max.
