Hilda - Season 3
Stream on Netflix
Episode: 8 Episodes (24-29 minutes each, except the season finale is 1 hour and 17 min)
Rated TV-Y7
Based on the graphic novels by Luke Pearson
“What are we gonna do?” “We are gonna relax.”
Hilda’s crew is growing up and off to visit Hilda’s great aunt in Tofoton, where new adventures and creatures await them. This is being advertised as the final season. You will need to watch season one and two, as well as the Hilda and the Mountain King movie. PROPS to the writers and authors for making the three children look and sound older. There are some characters that get left out this time around since this season goes back and forth between Tofoton, Trollberg, and other places.
Themes:
Adventure, friendship, honesty, trip to visit family, growing up, traditions, witchcraft, fairies, vacation, trees, giants, misunderstanding, alternate realities, helping your enemies, teaching others, mythical creatures, traps, laughing, be oddballs (freaky friends), parents, rules, long gone fathers, stealing, running away, promises, camping, memories, talking out your problems, sharing, other worlds, hooded figures, forgetting, lost family, memories, forgiveness, giving up one’s life for another, and trust.
Language: “Curse this big mouth of mine.”
Minor name calling like old and dumb. I caught the word, “darn” once.
Sometimes characters say, “what the…” but don’t finish the sentence.
Stuff to be aware of:
There isn’t anything scarier than the first season, but there may be more ‘intense’ scenes and moments than past seasons.
In episode 1, “The Train to Tofoton,” there is a character that mentions many people in a town have, “died or moved away.”
In episode 2, “The Fairy Mound,” Hilda has a nightmare in which she is sucked under ground by mushrooms and the ground closes up on her. An older man advances on and yells at a kid. Part of this episode takes place in a creepy forest with fog. In the forest are creepy mushroom monsters with a gross cyclops type eye and tentacles. These creature fly and chase the characters.
In episode 3, '“The Giantslayer,” starts out with a nightmare with the hooded figures from the last episode. a giant made of snow get cut in several places. The snow just gets sliced with no gore. A character almost gets burned at the stake.
In episode 4, “The Laughing Merman,” there is a water monster that kind of looks like a horse, but its mouth opens like a demogorgon from Stranger Things. One character has a costume that looks like a butt, and wears a hat that says, “I heart butts.” This scene is pretty quick.
In episode 5, “The Job,” the characters visit a, “tavern,” but beside what looks like a bar in the background it just seems like a seafood restaurant. There is also an angry troll, but nothing we haven’t seen before. The robed, hooded figures show up briefly.
In episode 6, “The Forgotten Lake,” there is a large creature with glowing eyes that emerges from a lake during the night. It reveals itself in an intense moment. The creature kind of looks like a spider but has a set of little hands and a long frog like forked tongue. It talks in a very deep, guttural voice. He talks about eating the characters and wraps people in webbing. His animation and sounds are meant to be creepy, and it works. A character cuts her hand and droplets of blood leak out. The creature pukes, multiple times. There is a joke about the creature not wanting to be “labeled.”
In episode 7, “ Strange Frequencies,” there really isn’t much to be aware of. There is some stealing.
In episode 8, “The Fairy Isle,” there are several intense and creepy parts. A boat floats in from nowhere with no one on it and a skull falls into a boat and jumps around biting. The hooded figures return and have creepy voices. The cyclops mushrooms with tentacles and return. There is a freaky dream scene where mushrooms and plants grow out of a person and grows a fruit which another character eats. A male and female character fall in love and are seen laying on each other’s shoulder. The female character is later seen pregnant. There is a spirit like character that has a creepy voice and screams. The finale part is pretty intense and the spirit from earlier is more shriveled and has gross hands. A blood sacrifice is discussed.
Overall:
At first David’s voice change threw me off, but he is voiced by the same actor. The actor just hit puberty and his vice changed, which makes the kids growing up seem even more real. There is also some more “intense” music in this season that reminds me a bit of the music from Stranger Things.
In my opinion, this is one of the most creative and well written kid’s shows in years. My daughter and I have really enjoyed it. We have even bought the graphic novels and hope for more seasons (but this is advertised as the final season). The show may be a bit intense for some, but it is a great gateway show if you want to get your kids interested in thrillers or more intense (possibly scary) shows/movies. The animation continues to be wonderfully whimsy and I just can’t praise this series enough.
Yeah, I liked it. This season wraps up all the lose plot threads and ends the series in a great way in which brought my daughter and I to tears.
Below is a photo and link to the graphic novel. At this time, I have not read any of them.
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