Final season comic was like one episode’s worth of plot, maybe a two parter if we are stretching it.

That’s on the back of the incredibly diluted and “quick tie up loose ends” “season” 2. Most of which absolutely tanked in quality of writing, cinematography, and plot pacing. I can understand the plot issues since they were essentially trying to cram multiple planned seasons worth of espionage and subterfuge into 8 episodes, but it just didn’t hit the same.

They also kind of wrote themselves into a corner, since the show shifted from the “apocalypse and survival” aspects of post nuclear war into the “government spook and his mission to prove the new government as illegitimate” plot that the second season mostly focused on.

All of the characters that used to be significant to the main issues like Dale and Stanley suddenly became “B” plotters as the “A” plot is exclusively in the purview of Jake and Hawkins. This could be argued was also just a side effect of the second season immediately solving the conflict that was set up during the last half dozen episodes of season 1, but who knows.