La Brea Season 3 Episode 3 Maya-Review And Recap- Magic Mushrooms And Wild Boar Soup

The past, present, and future collide as the groups in 2021, and 10,000 BC try to unlock the secrets of the military base. What happened to Gavin and all of the others over the years is about to be revealed. With a shortened Season 3, we won’t have to wait long. La Brea Season 3 Episode 3 holds fast to the formula fans have come to appreciate about the show. Weekly dangers mix with overarching mysteries. Everything is leading to a reckoning. The military experiments, Gavin’s involvement, Lucas’s past sins, and everyone’s regrets are explored in this mostly filler episode that sets up a few major turning points.

As much as all roads lead to the future, someone needs to have an eye on the past. Lucas can’t return to 2021, which means he and Veronica will eventually have to make a choice. If Ty can get back to 10,000 BC, he won’t want to return to the future either. Now that things are heating up between Izzy and Leila, will there be another couple that will have to make hard decisions?

Gavin, Sam, and Ty, in 2021, originally ran into a snag when Gavin ran. Understandably, their story sounds crazy, and he is so used to running from everything it seemed like the best option. Luckily, they were able to find him relatively quickly and convince him what they were saying was real. The more challenging thing to persuade him of was that he should accept help. Ty knows about regrets, depression, and guilt. After his cancer diagnosis, he pushed his wife away. He nearly broke her spirit. He blames himself for her drunk driving and hitting a family. She is initially resistant to his message, but by the end of La Brea Season 3, Episode 3, she accepts his help and avoids the accident that destroyed multiple lives.

Ironically, the military wanted to weaponize time travel to prevent bombings and failures, but Ty could use it to prevent a tragedy. In 10,000 BC, Gavin and Sam were captured by someone from the base but were subsequently rescued by Maya. She doesn’t know everything about what happened on the base, but she knows about the time travel and why Gavin has huge memory gaps. Her job was to neutralize the pilots once their mission time was done. She used a specialized drug cocktail that would target memories and erase them. After realizing what she was doing to the pilots, she became a whistle-blower, which is why the base wants her back so badly.

Maya wants to use a poisonous mushroom to unlock Gavin’s mind, and it nearly works, but he starts seizing, and the trio returns to camp. Gavin is okay and remembers stealing a microchip from a safe at the base. What is on that chip, and where did he hide it? We don’t know, but it is important enough to hunt them down. Unfortunately, the groups are being hunted in both timelines. A mysterious woman with a gun is following the trio in 2021, and the base will know Gavin and Sam escaped. I can’t imagine this will be ignored.

A rift is forming between Veronica and Lucas. He loves her deeply, but old habits die hard. He is used to being in control, and channeling his worst instincts into being a fair leader for the group has been good for him. However, his pride takes a hit when Ruth asks Veronica to be on the council instead of him. He is visibly surprised and slightly upset when she tells him about it. He tries to hide it, but it is obvious. I hope he can see past his own ego and embrace Veronica’s triumph. Both of them have had redemptive arcs that would be complete by her becoming a valuable leader and being content to be proud of her. Only time will tell; I fear they are running out of it.

Izzy and Ruth’s daughter, Leyla, bond over a near-death experience in a tar pit and boar hunting in La Brea Season 3 Episode 3. The pair understands each other because both of them want to rebel against the config expectations they live with. Of interesting note is a terrible sickness that swept through the village and killed Leila’s father and twin brother. Will this sickness come back and claim more lives? Leyla got out of the tar pit and shot a giant boar that was racing toward Izzy. Relationships form during difficult situations, and they appear to be growing. They have a romantic bond that seems doomed. How can they be together when Izzy belongs in 2021 and Leyla belongs in 10,000 BC?

Leyla is the best thing to happen to Izzy for multiple reasons. For two seasons, viewers have felt like she was an afterthought. She rarely offered anything to the storyline and was relegated to whining in the corner. Zyra Gorecki(Izzy) was not given much to do and, as a result, was an annoying nuisance instead of a compelling, fully fleshed-out character. This plot beat with Edyll Ismail’s Leyla has real potential. Their relationship has ramifications both in 10,000 BC and beyond and allows Izzy to be more than an interloper. I am curious how each of their parents will respond to their affinity for one another.

The resolution to Gavin’s story and what has been causing the sinkholes has been good in La Brea Season 3. Things haven’t always been as clear as they could be in past seasons, but now there is a clear path forward, and I feel like we are racing towards something big. La Brea Season 3 Episode 3 established the beginning of the end. I only hope they can wrap up all the loose threads, like why Veronica’s kidnapper traveled to 10,000 BC and what will happen to all of the relationships formed or split apart by the sinkhole. We shouldn’t forget Levi is stuck in the military base, and Eve is lost in time somewhere. Find all our La Brea coverage here.