"Engrossing, Unpredictable, Faith-Based Police Drama"

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Season 3 of VINDICATION takes the program’s usual twists and turns them into a roller coaster ride. Tight scripts, top acting, skillful editing, and excellent camerawork always leave viewers wanting more. Season 3 has a strong Christian, moral worldview where the Christian faith of Detective Travis and his family grows, faces challenges and finds new paths to healing. For example, Travis starts a Bible study in jail. Movieguide® advises caution for children, however, because of drug references and the evil government officials and criminals in VINDICATION.
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** TELEVISION GUIDE **
HEADLINE: ** Engrossing, Unpredictable, Faith-Based Police Drama **
Title: VINDICATION: Season 3
Quality: * * * * Acceptability: -1
SUBTITLES: None
WARNING CODES:
Language: None
Violence: V
Sex: S
Nudity: None
TV RATING: TV-PG
STARTING DATE: September 1, 2023
STARRING: Todd Terry, Venus Monique, TC Stallings, Peggy Schott, Steve Mokate, Dequan Ryan, Justin Armstrong, Barry Victor Piacente, Alivea Disney, Matt Holmes, Candace Kirkpatrick, Megan Glover, Brett Varvel, Marianne Haaland, Andrew Cheney, Tenley Stitzer, Brandi Price, Emma Elle Roberts, Laurie Coker
DIRECTOR: Jarod O’Flaherty
PRODUCERS: Jarod O’Flaherty, Corey Cannon
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: William Curtis, Michael Scott, Linda Blazy, Mike Jeffs
WRITER: Jarod O’Flaherty, Alan Tregoning, Matt Chastain
BASED ON THE NOVEL/PLAY BY: N/A
NETWORK: Redeem TV/Great American Pure Flix
GENRE: Drama/Police Drama
INTENDED AUDIENCE: Older children and adults
REVIEWER: The Rev. Dr. Gary L. Olsen
OVERVIEW REVIEW: VINDICATION: Season 3 is an engrossing, brilliantly written, half-hour, faith-based police drama streaming on both Redeem TV and Great American Pure Flix. The series focuses on Detective Gary Travis of the fictional East Bay, Texas police department. VINDICATION captivatingly tells the story of both law enforcement in a small but growing town and the personal, family lives of those keeping the peace or breaking the law. Tight scripts, top acting and excellent camerawork always leave viewers wanting more.
Unlike Season 1, VINDICATION: Season 3 picks up a storyline left suspensefully hanging at the end of the last episode of Season 2. That final scene shows Detective Travis taking one last look at a chalked body drawing on an empty warehouse floor that, the previous night, had hosted a guns-drawn standoff between a crooked cop, a crime boss and a familiar detective from another precinct, a standoff the outcome of which was not revealed. So, Season 2 viewers are watching the first episode of Season 3 with great eagerness to find out which of the three died in the duel.
Anyone diving into VINDICATION for the first time via Season 3 need not have seen Seasons 1 or 2. After continuing to remain anonymous for the first few moments of Episode 3.1, the morgue identification by Detective Travis reveals that the victim is a fourth person, seemingly unrelated to the previous night’s event. Thus, the script puts off the resolution of the standoff in lieu of pursuing this new homicide case.
The murder case will last the story arc of all eight episodes of VINDICATION: Season 3, providing the series’ usual twists and turns mimicking a ride on a roller coaster with tunnels in the dark. For example, a member of Detective Travis’ own household becomes a suspect. Also, Detective Travis is himself arrested.
As a result, the Travis household is in emotional turmoil. Meanwhile, the detective in the warehouse, Kris Tanner, Travis’ protégé, goes missing. Also, the dirty cop turns out to be the East Bank Police Chief, and he just gets down and dirtier as he utilizes a crime syndicate couple to bully, even assassinate, any opposition.
The only other honest detective officially on the case, Tre Millwood, is investigating most of this while having to keep his cards close to his bullet-proof vest, because he thinks he can’t trust his boss nor his fellow officers. Add the involvement of the Texas Rangers and the FBI, plus a rousing Texas rodeo, and you have a host of mysteries that come to an end during the last thrilling episode of Season 3.
Season 3 of VINDICATION maintains the program’s high quality suspense writing, skillful editing, excellent acting, artful cinematography, meticulous production values, and visionary directing. The episodes mix ingenious unpredictability and contagious intrigue. Consequently, VINDICATION: Season 3 continues to provide enthralling and gratifying entertainment, with a Season 4 in the making for 2024.
The dominant worldview of all seasons of VINDICATION is a strong Christian worldview. In Season 3, the Christian faith of Detective Travis and his family grows, faces challenges, provides paths to healing, and is appropriately shared with those around them. While Detective Travis leads a Bible study in jail with a small group of fellow inmates, his wife Becky experiences a faith meltdown, admitting that she’s exhausted “asking God for things that never happen.” However, Daughter Katie, an agnostic in previous seasons, steps up and responds, “Let me ask, then.” Also, as in previous seasons of VINDICATION, the good guys win, and the bad guys lose when all is said and done. As an extra treat, the final episode ends with an unexpected baptism for a new believer with whom Travis had shared Jesus.
Of course, Season 3 of VINDICATION, being a police drama, has an evil antagonist. In this case, the antagonist is a symbol of intentional evil who deepens his involvement in an illegal drug trade spanning a series of small towns along a state highway, with the town of East Bank as the hub. The villain’s enforcers, Vince and Raven, make offers that the villain’s targets can’t refuse. Whether compromising morality through sex, beating up influential community leaders until they cooperate, or even taking the lives of the opposition, the head villain, his hoodlums and the community’s criminal class portray a violent and godless side of life. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children because of this graphic underbelly of government, criminal corruption.