Damages (season 3)
| Damages Season 3 | |||
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 Region 1 DVD artwork | |||
| Country of origin | United States | ||
| No. of episodes | 13 | ||
| Broadcast | |||
| Original channel | FX | ||
| Original run | January 20, 2010 – April 19, 2010 | ||
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| DVD release | |||
| Region 1 | July 12, 2011 | ||
| Region 2 | October 18, 2010 | ||
| Region 4 | October 27, 2010 | ||
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The third season of the FX legal drama series Damages premiered on January 20, 2010 and concluded on April 19, 2010. It consisted of thirteen episodes, bringing the series total to 39. Damages was created by brothers Todd and Glenn Kessler along with Daniel Zelman, each of whom served as executive producers and contributed four scripts for the season, including the premiere and the finale.
The season picks up one year after the events of season two. Louis Tobin, patriarch of the famously wealthy Tobin Family, has just confessed to orchestrating the largest Ponzi scheme in Wall Street history and the U.S. Government has assigned Patty Hewes and Tom Shayes to find the Tobin's hidden money and uncover any evidence that other Tobin family members (namely Louis's eldest child Joe and long-trust attorney Leonard Winstone) had prior knowledge of the fraud. Ellen Parsons has taken a job at the District Attorney's office but as the story unfolds, she finds herself being pulled further and further back into Patty's orbit. Tom, meanwhile, learns that he unwittingly invested with Louis Tobin and has lost all of his money. He struggles to keep his personal issues from interfering with the case and with keeping his secret from Patty.
Though the season earned mostly positive reviews from television critics, it continued to struggle in the ratings and soon after the season finale, FX announced it would not be picking Damages up for any future seasons. However, the series was eventually rescued by DirecTV, which began airing a fourth season on July 13, 2011.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Recurring
Guest cast
Episodes
Production
After Damages had finished airing its first season in October of 2007, FX renewed the series for an addition two seasons of thirteen episodes. Production on both seasons was delayed due to the Writer's Guild Strike. This resulted in season two not premiering until the beginning of 2009 and season three was consequently delayed until January, 2010.
As with the previous two seasons, season three of Damages was executive produced by series creators Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zelman. Mark A. Baker and Aaron Zelman served as co-executive producers with Mark Fish serving as co-producer. Aaron Zelman and Mark Fish each wrote one episode and co-write the sixth episode together. Jeremy Doner and Adam Stein also wrote one episode each. The season's main directors were Matthew Penn (three episodes), Todd A. Kessler (two episodes) and Timothy Busfield (two episodes). Co-creators Daniel Zelman and Glenn Kessler each made their directorial debuts with episode five and episode seven respectively, as did series director of photography David Tuttman with episode ten. The remaining three episodes were directed by Tony Goldwyn, Chris Terrio and series star Tate Donovan.
Reception
Critical reviews
Television critics received the third season of Damages with mostly high praise and the season has scored an 81/100 Metascore on entertainment site Metacritic. This qualifies as "universal acclaim."
Ratings
Despite positive critical reviews, Damages continued to struggle in the ratings. The premiere episode garnered 1.43 million viewers and a 0.3 ratings share with adults 18-49. This is down from the 1.72 million households that viewed the second season premiere. Season three reached a ratings low point upon airing its tenth episode, "Tell Me I'm Not Racist," which attracted only 650,000 viewers and a 0.2 ratings share with adults 18-49. Though the ratings went into a slight incline for the remainder of the season, the finale was watched by only 910,000 housholds compared to the 1.05 million viewers who tuned in for the second season finale.
References
External links
Retrieved from : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damages_(season_3)
