His Dark Materials: The Botanic Garden (2022)
Season 3, Episode 8
5/10
The Serpent
26 April 2023
Lyra and Will walk through the world where Mary Malone looking for their daemons and hunted down by Father Gomez. They stumble upon Mary, who tells them a love story why she gave up being a nun. Lyra and Will feel desire for each other and later they meet Pantalaimon and Kirjava. Their act stops the flow of Dust and save the worlds. But there is a price to pay.

"The Botanic Garden" is the last episode of this awful Third Season of "His Dark Materials". The First Season tells the story of "The Golden Compass" (2007) with many details and is great. The Second Season is reasonable and not so good. However, this Third Season and the conclusion of the plot is terrible and a waste of time. Dafne Keen and Amir Wilson are expressionless and show no chemistry, and the love scene is ridiculous. Will had no daemon but when he crossed by boat to the world of the dead, he left his soul behind that now it is a daemon. Rule of the game. But he becomes a doctor in a world where there are no daemons. It is funny a surgeon operating a patient with a cat (Kirjava) in the waiting room. The subplot with Father Gomez is absolutely unnecessary. Mary's romance is also unnecessary the way it is. She could act like a serpent in a different way. The conclusion of this juvenile series is one of the worst I have ever seen. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "The Botanic Garden"
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