So I just finished season 3 of Midnight Burger and I have a few things I'd like to say so spoilers for this season, previous and following seasons as well:
Shout out to Nhea Durousseau who portrayed Tamara Oliver, my favorite new character in season 3!
So my favorite thing about season three, is overall it's messaging about sharing your situation, or drown in it. When the diner crew find Tamara, she is trapped in an impossible situation, hopeless even before the chaos sprang up, with no one to share it with. With Ashley the asteroid, it was a lot of people sharing their situation, but not being believed, even though they had so many people to verify it. On mother's Day, we had people struggling with their relationships, with their loved ones, and themselves. And over all of this was Clementine, someone who refused to share her burden, out of a pride and foolishness that spiralled out consuming the lives of so many.
Season 1 introduced us to the world, the people we've heard and learned to love, and their stories, the idea that a person has a story to tell. Season two was about how we have the power to change our own stories, and the stories of others. We see that in the Teds interference with world's not their own across three systems. We see it in the way the diner inspired so many to rise to meet the world they wanted to have. Season 3 was about the importance of sharing your stories, to throw them out into the world like notes in a bottle, regardless of intended destination, they will be heard. We see this with young Leif, leaving the doc Ellis file, not knowing or caring who found it, or how it was used. We see it several times with Tamara, casting out her experiences to the amazement of people in the distant future, and the benefit of friends she knew for less than a day. She did this twice, and it was heard by so many. And season 4, we learned the dangers of when one tries to supercede the stories of others, heedless of the pain this causes. We see this in Caspar's damaged relationship with David, with the servants of krok, having no real lives of their own, consumed by a mission they don't understand.
I'm freaking in love with this series and I can't wait to see what's next.
