Jurassic World: Chaos Theory is back with an all-new season of suspense, drama, and dinosaurs. The Nublar Six have a new look and location as the series’ third season kicks off on a new continent.
The new season picks up where season two left off, with the kids heartbroken over Brooklyn choosing her work over them. An aspiring investigative journalist, Brooklyn has been working undercover to take down Soyana Santos (aka The Broker), a powerful woman who runs black market operations for herself and performs smaller jobs for Biosyn. When Brooklyn had the chance to rejoin her friends, she opted to leave with Santos. Her decision rocks the very fabric of the friend group as they’re split on how to proceed.
Before the kids even have time to fully digest what happened, they’re persuaded by Agent Barry Sembène to accompany him on a plane “back home”. It wasn’t until they were already airborne that the kids found out they were headed to Germany. When chaos erupts midflight, the plane ends up crashing near the Swiss/Italian border. This is where the season truly begins.
Season 3 was thoroughly enjoyable and shows the series’ growth potential. It looked as if the studio read the complaints about the past two seasons and made the necessary changes. The three basic things were more dinos, more action, and less relationship drama. I can happily say they delivered on all three.
Without spoiling too much, I can say that the new dinosaur garners most of the focus in season three, but other dinosaurs from last season are seen again. The kids are in Europe for the remainder of the season, but I’ll leave it to you to figure out where. The not-so-obvious locations should help those countries’ tourism efforts, I bet. A tumultuous relationship fizzles while a past-mentioned one gets a face. Then, of course, there’s constant adventure involving trying to get home, rummaging where they shouldn’t, caring for Bumpy’s egg, and finding The Broker.
If you split the season in half, the midway point, episode five, is where the excitement takes off. “Boiling Over” follows the kids into a dinosaur black market and also signifies their separation. Five episodes in, Brooklyn’s decision caused a rift that couldn’t be easily rectified. With that, Darius, Yaz, and Ben went one way while Kenji and Sammy went another.
The season was fun to breeze through with the short runtime of each episode and the story’s intensity escalating with each one. A handful of new characters are introduced, and the writers made them easy to follow. One thing that always bothers me about huge franchises is the number of characters that get overloaded on audiences. Here, a mere handful are introduced and all of them stick around for the season, helping their faces and stories stick to memory.
Jurassic World: Chaos Theory S3 gets a 9 out of 10. The characters are still growing and coming into their own, but still make periodic mistakes when it comes to decision making. Choosing which avenues to pursue and choices in the heat of the moment, evade most of them when it comes down to it. But it’s easy to forget, even with everything that they’ve been through, they’re still kids. Less moping and spite from Kenji was good, giving him a chance to show a softer side this season. Ben really stepped things up this season and juggled more than one priority with chaos all around him. The writers did an excellent job stepping up the suspense but playing the balancing act of keeping things TV-PG.
Season 3 of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory is streaming now on Netflix.
-Jon Jones
Photos: Courtesy of Netflix
Genre: Family, Sci-Fi
Rating: TV-PG
Runtime: 10 Episodes | 24 mins.
Trailer: Watch
U.S. Release Date: April 3, 2025