A scene from ‘Alex Rider’ Season 3

at the end of season 2 alex riderThe mysterious killer, Yassen Gregorovich (Thomas Levin), tells Alex (Otto Farrant) to “find the Widow, find Scorpia” if he wants to know the truth about his past and his father. Based on Anthony Horowitz’s hugely popular YA book series about a teenage British spy, season 3 is based on the fifth Alex Rider book, scorpia,

The series begins with Alex, his best friend Tom (Brennock O’Connor) and hacker extraordinaire, Kyra (Marlee Siu) searching for a widow in Malta. They are living with Tom’s brother, Jay, who is an extreme sports athlete. When Alex finally finds the widow, Julia Rothman (Sofia Helin), he learns that she is the head of the criminal organization Scorpia, and is planning the usual nefarious actions, this time launching a secret weapon that Could kill at the press of a button, dubbed the Invisible Sword. Niles (Jason Wong) is Julia’s ruthless strongman who unquestioningly does what he’s told.

Alex is also horrified to learn that her father worked for Scorpia. Alex attends Scorpia’s assassin school after Rothman reveals some unpleasant facts about his father’s death and the Department of Special Operations’ hand in it. Will Alex be replaced? Will he become Scorpia’s killer like his father? What is Julia’s end game?

Julia plans to hold Britain for ransom. Her heartlessness is revealed when she orders the cruel execution of Max Grendel (Kevin McNally), a colleague who develops a conscience. Alan Blunt (Stephen Dillon), head of the Special Operations Department, his deputy and Alex’s handler, Mrs. Jones (Vicki McClure), John Crawley (Ace Bhatti), chief of staff, and Smithers (Nyasha Hatendi). Gadget Guru struggles to find a way out, while Julia demonstrates the power of the Invisible Sword on the entire football team.

The department is not helped by self-serving, sarcastic Home Secretary Laura Kellner (Shelley Cohn). Alex’s guardian, Jack (Ronke Adecoluejo), has started a new job and feels it is time for the department to support Alex, seeing how much he has helped them.

Everything builds to a satisfying climax with the clock ticking in the church, the fear of imminent, painful death, and death-ray machines pointing skyward. Everything we love about James Bond is present in the show, apart from the sex and sadism, from the shady organizations to the megalomaniacal, flamboyant villains.

Actually, season 2, which was based on eagle strike, There was even Bond villain Toby Stephens (he played Gustav Graves in it). die another day) as evil tech billionaire Damian Cray (though he wanted to destroy the world for the best of reasons).

alex rider The ultimate escapist story with episodes rushing into a breathless rush of action and jokes. The acting is on point, with Farrant in the lead, with the right mix of young determination, vulnerability, silliness and hormones.

While Season 3 has been cited as the final iteration (the cast is significantly older than their teenage heroes), with 10 more books in the series, we can expect reimaginings and reboots. Until then we can enjoy popcorn thrills as Alex takes on the bad guys with his best friends and enemies to an explosive soundtrack – starting with the title track, Sam Henshaw’s ‘The World Is Mine’.

Alex Rider S3 is streaming on Amazon Prime Video