Review of As The Crow Flies, Season 3

I remember so clearly how I first heard about As the Crow Flies: I was still working at MovieWeb at the time as an evergreen writer and film/television critic, and then I decided to do some pieces on Turkish dramas, especially those on Netflix. They were beginning to increase their presence on the platform at that time.

As I was doing research about the different kinds of shows available, I read the synopsis for this show. At first, I kind of just shrugged it off and decided I didn’t want to watch it immediately, but then I opened up Netflix. I started scrolling through all of the options, and saw it in front of me.

And that was how I decided to originally watch the series. I binged watched the first two seasons over the course of a few days, and then when Season 3 was released, I watched all of that, too. I’m eagerly waiting for Season 4 to come out—I’m way too invested in this series at this point.

Let’s get into the review before I ramble too much!

The girls find themselves going from network to network in an attempt to find their place.

Now, if you’re expecting some of the same drama from previous seasons, with Asli acting like someone who needs to go to prison instead of being the head of a television show, get ready for season three of As the Crow Flies.

Again we’re back in the newsroom, or, in Lale’s case, having a YouTube channel. We learn pretty early there’s going to be some sort of scandal with her, as her sex tape is released into the world—or so we think. As we get later on in the season, things are not exactly what they seem on that end.

Major drama is happening with Asli, who has become romantically involved with Yusuf again. However, Yusuf has already begun dating Guliz, and she’s slowly going mad trying to figure out where Yusuf’s head has gone lately.

Then there’s the standard drama involving the television networks. Once Lale’s scandal erupts, it creates even more uncertainty for her and her career. As we know, women are more vulnerable in general to such kinds of scandal and outrage.

That said, there’s also the fact that the two are going to team up in a way we have not seen before. It’s almost as if Asli almost killing Lale inside of her own home and then taking her job never happened as these two team up and create their own broadcast network.

There are some betrayals on the horizon as Lale tries to reorganize her life and priorities, especially when it comes to her ex-husband, her daughters, and her career. Some romances are going to end, while others are going to be renewed.

In the end, I think there’s plenty of drama to sustain this season of the show, but I’m not sure how it can go so much farther. So many plot points are being introduced, such as Lale going abroad, and then dropped in the name of continuing the plot in a certain way.

Like collective amnesia is one thing, but then preparing for a life changing move and then just dropping it is something to me. Maybe this is how the elites live, but wow.

Overall Thoughts

As I mentioned before in the previous section, there are some major holes that become more obvious with this season. I think, honestly, if we had stopped at Season 2 we would have been fine and all would’ve been dandy.

Like I am still glad I watched this, as I was entertained when I did not think too hard about it, but I wanted more from it. I didn’t feel that as much with the other seasons.

I guess we’ll see how the next season goes, shall we? Unless it gets cancelled—I’m thinking about how Netflix cancelled some other shows I was watching.

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