Sizzlin' Summer Streaming 24' - Hightown - Season Three/Series Finale

Hightown has now concluded in a sort of open ended finale on Starz/Stan in Australia.

Starring Monica Raymund and James Badge Dale through all three seasons, they are joined by Garret Dillahunt, Jeanine Serralles, Kaya Rosenthal, Michael Drayer, Ellie Barone, and Taja V. Simpson were also cast in recurring roles for the third and very final run.

Back in March 2022, the series was renewed for a third season, somewhere along the line this was confirmed as, the third and final season. It commenced on a public holiday in this fine brown land, on January 26, 2024. Concluding Friday.

Now I have a good friend who watched this show just for the lesbian content. That faded in seasons three so did they as one of many viewers tuning out of the final seven episodes.

Yes season three had the smallest episode count where we also waited over two years since season two concluded.

So where did season three pick up? Jackie wakes up on a beach, having passed out the night before, and is unable to locate her car or cell phone. 

Owen Frawley, a local drug dealer that trades with Osito, murders a woman who is encroaching on his territory. Ray and Renee, who now have an infant daughter Scarlet, are living together; Renee is unhappy and isolated while Ray is obsessed with work. 

Frankie is in prison, having sustained an abdominal stab wound. Ray is leading a task force, which Jackie is a part of, to apprehend Owen. Renee, bored at home, applies to manage the strippers at her old club. Ray bypasses his chain of command to organize a sudden raid on a drug dealer's house; Jackie, drunk and high, goes on the raid and successfully apprehends the dealer. 

Jackie gets a call about her missing car; when she arrives, she finds a blood-soaked t-shirt of a woman that she had sex with.

So Jackie is back to her old tricks and Ray is becoming more dodgy. You really wonder how much longer this show could have ever gone on for.

I enjoyed how they got to the point of a few storylines, however I did find this final season a little forced. I also felt Starz sat on it for a while as it wrapped filming back in July 2022. With all the writers strikes etc, how could they be sitting on finished series?

Either way Stan says goodbye to another Starz series. With Mary & George now streaming on Binge, let's hope Starz can serve up some more originals for Stan to stream this Autumn/Winter.

Until next time!