S3E8
The Botanic Garden
His Dark Materials · 2023-02-05 · 60 min
FLICKFEEL
80
from 48 comments
COMMUNITY
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nobody yet
YOURS
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…
what happens
Lyra and Will reunite with Mary and hear a story that changes everything. Now they must decide what they are willing to sacrifice if they are to save the worlds.
how it went
Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.
FUN
22
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
71
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
Read from 48 comments — 53 said when.
📈 rising arc — Builds the whole way through. Hard going most of the way through. Around the middle it was tender and painful at the same time, which is the state people mean by being moved.
Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.
- height
- how intense it got, 0–100
- gold above
- how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
- tension rail
- how much was still unresolved
- grey haze
- how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it
📈 rising arc — builds the whole way through
what people actually wrote
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“And here comes the flood of tears. Again. And again. Everytime. Always.”
Triskan▲ 169about 80–100% inread it ↗
“The season really stuck the landing. These last two episodes are by far the best in the entire series.”
mylenesfarmer▲ 146about 80–100% inread it ↗
“Literal sobbing. I could barely read the words at the end through my tears.”
gracenp45▲ 119about 80–100% inread it ↗
“I was a bit wary the first few episodes that it would be a let down”
gracenp45▲ 119about 0–20% inread it ↗
who made it
- directed
- Harry Wootliff
- written
- Francesca Gardiner
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Ruta Gedmintas as Serafina Pekkala
Nina Sosanya as Elaine Parry
Kit Connor as Pantalaimon (voice)
Kate Ashfield as Atal (voice)
Patricia Allison as Kirjava (voice)- VVal Adams as Josephine
Tuppence Middleton as Father Gomez's Daemon (voice)
Kobna Holdbrook-Smith as Balthamos