Season Review: Dream Corp LLC Season Three (First Five Episodes)

Dream Corp LLC is a franchise that may have lost some of the respect it initially had thanks to Amazon’s success with Undone. With the constant marketing touting the show’s use of rotoscoping, people may have forgotten that THIS show actually predates Amazon’s by a couple of seasons. To be fair, there may not be as much rotoscope animation when comparing the two series, but really you can’t compare art styles anywho. In theory, you could have comedies, dramas, sci-fi all with elements of rotoscope and really the only thing comparing them is the art style rather than the end product.

Possibly noticing this, the producers of Dream Corp LLC appear to have taken this franchise into another position altogether. While the franchise still features the fantastic elements brought with it with putting their patients in a coma for the sole purpose of clearing up common fears like heights, hiccups, and pyromania, it’s a lot of the silly stuff that happens outside of the dream states that seem to have elevated this series into a different degree. Most notable of this is the finale’s introduction of the horrifying Virgil Bottoms, a product of over indulgence for staying alive thereby kept in a state similar to Krang or M.O.D.O.K., Virgil is by far the franchise’s most profound horror masterpiece which seems to be a more ostentatious trend this third season.

At front and center of the series, Dream Corp LLC’s demented take on Gregory House M.D., that in the form of Jon Gries’ Dr. Roberts, the Rick to Patient 44’s Morty most episodes, quarterbacking the anarchy as the likes of Ahmed (Ahmed Bharoocha), Randy (Mark Prosch), and “T.E.R.R.Y.” (Stephen Merchant) pepper situations with one-liners and antics that always get noticed but never interrupt what’s going on. Likewise, new castmate Sunita Mani (Margot Daly) oftentimes finds herself quickly taken out of a scene and showing up later worse off than when she got there.

The end result of season three is one that’s not to be missed. Easier to digest than the show’s far too long second season and showcasing director Daniel Stessen’s increasing proficiency in the director’s chair, Dream Corp LLC season three is one of the more maniacal rides of the 2020 fall season.