If you’re a fan of Fox’s Animal Control, you can see our previous reviews for season 1 Here and for season 2 Here. With that in mind, we jumped the chance to review season 3 once again.
As always, we break down our reviews by story, acting, and overall. Let’s jump on in.
Story 6/10
This season picks up once again with Shred and Emily still in a weird “will they won’t they” relationship as Emily has now moved on from Rick, but Shred is now in a relationship with Isabelle.
Frank is once again having problems with committing, and his relationship with Yazmin seems to be growing strong, but how fast is moving leads to Frank jumping out a window and ditching the relationship.
At the same time as all this is going on, a zoo breakout has let a lot of animals out within the city, and has pushed Animal Control to its breaking point. All the crew does a pretty good job with even Patel, who gains a little bit of fame from his actions. While the crew gets almost all the animals are rounded up, a main issue for the season is that a penguin seems to be adept at avoiding and escaping capture from Shred and Frank.
The renovated house from the prior season has not yet been resolved, but it plays off as the introduction to a new character, Parker, who squats in it and later becomes Shred’s new best friend and a romantic interest for one of the characters by the end of this season.
Emily also has her own storyline in which she wishes to increase the kennels at the shelter, allowing them to store more animals and a better and safer way, that leads to her introducing animal control to. Social influencer who strikes up a relationship in secret with Frank and also with Victoria.
Acting 8/10
Michael Rowland and Chelsea Frei who play Shred and Isabelle do a very good job of playing-off each other this season, creating an envious relationship, while also being able to showcase and work through realistic problems that a couple might have as they start to become more serious and see more sides of their partners.
The dynamics that Lucy Punch brings to the series as a social influencer is an interesting dynamic to the series. This influence changes Joe McHale’s performance as Frank, who begins to question if he’s ready for a full relationship. She also has a very similar effect upon Victoria who finishes the season kind of done and tired of working her way through partners.
Vella Lovell who plays Emily does a great job this season doing more than just being a character who pines over someone. Her interests and desires to increase the abilities of the shelter and her hard work to the end is a great and clear return to the overzealous character designs of earlier seasons.
Overall 7/10
This season, more than any of the others, the show becomes less and less an animal capture of the week and more a follow-through of multiple episodes connecting to reveal a larger story. Every character has a story that develops and grows through the season, and episodes directly lead into next episodes. The season the show took character growth and development to heart with every episode.
I will say, as a spoiler, so if you don’t want spoilers you should just skip this paragraph, I feel like the series hinted at the possibility of playing a love interest between Frank and Victoria early on in the series, but then let it go, while this season seems very eager and persistent to not let it go and pushes further into it.
Additionally, the development and growth of Frank’s family feels a lot less toxic this season and also seem to be growing in a very unique way.
Conner’s Final Thoughts
It was really fun getting to see a collection of characters that had been only showcased a little bit in the past seasons as the show. Characters that were main foils, celebrity guests, or side characters. As the characters search for a solution at the end of the season, we get to see the faces of characters like Rick and even Ken Jeong return once more which is fun. The fact that there might be even more Ken Jeong in future seasons to come seems like a gift.
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