Blood of Zeus Season 3 Review
Director: Jae H. Kim, Joshua Covey and Jae Woo Kim
Date Created: 2025-05-08 19:27
3.5
Blood of Zeus Season 3 Review: Directed by Jae H. Kim, Joshua Covey, Jae Woo Kim, developed by Charley and Vlas Parlapanides and produced by Powerhouse Animation Studios. Blood of Zeus came back with its last season, with 8 action-filled episodes. The show, which launched in 2020, blends Greek mythology and breakneck animation and reimagines gods, Titans and demigods as darker, more human characters. The show features voice talents like Derek Phillips (Heron), Elias Toufexis (Seraphim), Jessica Henwick (Alexia), Claudia Christian (Hera), Fred Tatasciore (Hades), Jason O’ Mara (Zeus), Alfred Molina (Cronus) and many more who bring this mythic world to life with emotional character and depth.
When Netflix’s Blood of Zeus first came out, I hadn’t expected it to be one of my top animated shows. It had bold animation and strong characters, and how it was mixing Greek mythology with fresh storytelling was exhilarating. Aside from a first season made up of good but not great episodes and a second, significantly better one, I was eagerly waiting for Season 3. Now that I’ve seen it, I can report it’s an emotional and action-packed season, albeit with some cracks here and there.
Blood of Zeus Season 3 Review
Blood of Zeus Season 3 on Netflix continues straight from the cliffhanger finale of Season 2, where betrayal and divine politics see Heron badly injured by Hades, but he survives due to his godly powers. But there is no time for that. Gaia unleashes the powerful Titan Typhon of brute force, and his path of destruction follows hot on his heels. The gods attempt to take him down, but they are plainly no match. Typhon even unleashes Cronus, Zeus’s own father, who wishes to wreak vengeance on his son. Which paves the way to an even bigger threat.
This season doesn’t waste time, I was hooked from the very beginning. It dives into the chaos that the foolish rulings of the gods have created. I’ve always appreciated the manner in which Netflix’s Blood of Zeus depicts the gods, not as flawless entities, but as deeply flawed ones, even more petty and selfish at times than the mortals whose destinies they enjoy looking down upon.
We have good action scenes, emotional moments and more of our favourite characters. The contrast between Cronus and Seraphim being destroyed and one attempting to try to make things right is a good addition to the plot. But around the middle, the plot nearly changes into something else. Big things start to occur nearly all at once, some of them for no reason at all. Some character decisions are hurried , and some plot threads are left hanging, which is disappointing.
Compared to Season 2, which had one of the strongest writing and pacing, Season 3 was strangely shortened. It’s as if the production instructed the writers to just wrap the show up at any cost, with some of it glossed over. That did make the end a bit confusing and emotionally watered down more than it had to be. It wasn’t terrible, but it was a bit rough around the edges in ways that were a step backwards from the last season.
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Blood of Zeus 2025 also excels at how it employs mythological trappings not only as window dressing but as actual moral conundrums. The mother of all, Gaia, has a larger role here. I didn’t like everything she did, but I could understand the rage. She chastises the gods for abdicating their responsibilities, and for crying out loud, she’s correct. And that theme, of power being unaccountable, rang true, even if the context was ancient Greece.
Seraphim, on the other hand, surprised me. I didn’t think I would find myself pitying him, given his violent history. But in Season 3, he’s had time to think and change. There’s one subplot about him trying to make some amends with someone from his past that really got me. It showed that, even for a man like him, corrupted as he once was by hatred, redemption was possible. That made him one of the strongest aspects of the narrative.
One of the best parts of the show continues to be the voice acting. Derek Phillips is great as Heron, and Elias Toufexis makes Seraphim sound menacing and emotive. The rest of the cast, such as Jessica Henwick and Claudia Christian, are also great. But honestly, though, the highlight for me is Alfred Molina as Cronus. He is a new character and has a deeper and more robust voice that you can’t help but be drawn into. He doesn’t just act, he represents whatever character in the way that was required. His inclusion alone is worth watching this season.
Summing Up
It’s sad to say goodbye to the series, especially when it feels like the ending was a bit rushed. I don’t know if this was always supposed to be the final season, or because of Netflix’s cancellations, they just tied up loose ends a season early, as best as they could manage.
Either way, some of the plot did not do justice. But I am thankful we have a proper ending, even if it wasn’t absolutely perfect. At least the characters got closure, of a kind, and the fans, closure at the end of one more spin round this wildly conceived mythological realm. So, is Season 3 perfect? No. But worth watching? Most definitely. If you’ve hung in this long with the Heron and Seraphim series, you’ll want to know where their stories end.
Blood of Zeus Final Season is now streaming on Netflix
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