Runaways (TV Series) Cheat the Gallows (2019) User Reviews

Even though I like this show

[AleksandrBelenko · 8/10 · 26 December 2019]

This will be a retrospect and a review of this episode in particular. No spoilers, I promise.

Few years ago I decided to watch all shows that relate to MCU, though curretly they are again non canon. Anyway one of the shows were Runaways and I loved everything in it. Especially intro and Julian McMahon as a villain. Second seson changed a lot of things, it did not feel the same, but still was very good. Third seson seesms very different. We finish the plotline from seson 2 simultaneously developing new nemesis. Actress is hot and as an evildoer she seems good, still felt like a character from 90/2000s . The penultimate episode was not that exiting. Yeah, a battle, but did not have the weight it should. The consequence did apply that weight I looked for. But then comes this episode that wants to solve everything and make it dandy. Does not work for me. Yes, they come from future and this trope is cool in itself, And they did not create paradoxes though they hint at some, but do not develop. Anyway, I overlook it. Each detail separatly is fine , nostalgic but not sutisfying. It should be a grand finale of not only the season, but the show itself and it does not deliver. I am not so exited as I have been during the finales of other shows. Did authors want to make an open ending? Why though? They knew that there will not be a sequel. At this point an 8 feels like a great gift from me. I cannot say I did not like it, I just wished for more. P.S. Maybe if Cloack and Dagger appered in the dinal battle I would be as exited as they actually appered during the season. It would be a final battle for each group and a culmination to both shows to end them in high point. But that is my subjective view

Season Three Review

[southdavid · 6/10 · 13 May 2020]

I really liked the first season of Marvel's "Runaways". It was an interesting plot and the kids, though looking initially like obvious teenage tropes were well written and had funny sparky dialogue. The second season I was less enamoured with, the villain that should have been wrapped up in season one is continued with, and the plot settled into a lot of repetition. Season three finally wraps up that alien arc - about halfway through, before a shorter and more interesting switch to a new villain.

With the aliens now using Victor Stein (James Marsters), Stacey Yorkes (Brigid Brannagh) and Tina Minoru (Brittany Ishibashi) as hosts, the kids must come back together to rescue their friends and parents before trying to overcome the aliens one last time. However, in the background Morgan Le Fey (Elizabeth Hurley) is plotting to escape her dark dimension and to merge it with ours.

It's that familiarity of Runaways that ultimately killed its potential. Running with the Pride/Aliens as the antagonists for two and a half seasons just couldn't sustain my interest, particularly as the various characters swapped sides over and over until I just couldn't remember who was with whom, and why, or why they swapped back. I can't help but feel the overall series would have been much better if Pride/Aliens were the villain for the first season, then Morgan Le Fey for the second and Evil Alex for the third. The parents should have been relegated to guest stars after the first run and more time could have been spent on the kids.

Morgan Le Fey is a decent villain (and my god! Elizabeth Hurley looks amazing) and I like there there's a shift in the magic to bring it closer to what we've seen in "Doctor Strange". In fact, I did spend a lot or time wondering why he wouldn't have gotten involved in a story that clearly is right in his wheelhouse - that's the drawback of crafting a connected world. Speaking of which, there is a cross over with the show "Cloak and Dagger" which I haven't seen yet, but provided more of that welcome variety.

I'd like to see the characters crop up again in other iterations of the universe, but for now, I feel like the story of "Runaways" is one of wasted potential.

Good Enough to End Here

[Coolmade2000 · 8/10 · 25 July 2021]

It was a good enough ending for the series. Although the finale does sets up for another new season before Marvel Television was canceled, it does wrap up a saga that started from the pilot episode.

Without spoiling anything from this season, I'm not sure how the show would've continued despite all of the events that happened through this season.

Beautiful Finale

[keremelmaci · 10/10 · 10 June 2020]

I know that this is an unpopular opinion, but I really liked the finale. It feels like the penultimate episode was supposed to be the season finale and this episode was going to be spread through a few episodes, maybe a season. Because this finale episode feels like a huge ride. So many things happen in it, and apart from the Victor Mancha stuff, they conclude it quite perfectly as they get to final scene. The time travelling was great. I loved that the show went back and showed us how the characters were in the beginning. Chase, the typical handsome jock, Karolina believing in the light, Molly being the excited young one, Alex trying too hard, Nico being distant and Gert being badass with her words as always. I loved to see the growth they had over the course of 3 seasons. It was also a very exciting ride, as I didn't know who survived and if they could make it. I wish they could have explored Victor and evil Alex storyline, but it wasn't the writers' fault the show got cancelled. It's still nice to hear Victor's name throughout the episode. Knowing Alex actually turns out to be evil in the comics, it was also very nice to see that here, even though it was very shortly. I was worried that might never happen in the show, but what they made Alex go through in Season 3 really justifies that in my opinion. We got our happy ending. It wasn't something flashy or superhero-type of thing. It was just all the kids walking together, finally happy and united after all they've been through. It was simple yet it did the trick quite perfectly, and emotionally. Goodbye Runaways...

Cheat the Gallows

[bobcobb301 · 4/10 · 11 April 2020]

Give them credit for trying and making this feel like a finale, but this show just never really worked. It didn't balance super hero stuff and teen romance well at all, excelling in neither category.

At least it only lasted 3 seasons.

a disgrace

[gamingneroperry · 1/10 · 28 December 2019]

The series should have ended in season 2 they clearly didn't know how to finish so they resulted to teen drama and bad writing

Delusional people think this was somehow a good season

[mastiff-man · 4/10 · 20 July 2021]

I literally lol at how bad season 3 was. People, be real with it. I am a huge marvel fan. But this was just bad. Bad writing. Bad bad writing.