Season Three Of Sony Crackle’s Startup Is The Perfect Storm Of Loyalty, Betrayal, Ethical Drama, Bad Decisions, And Hope

At Araknet, it’s all about family.  Image courtesy of Deadline.com

Season Three sees a whole new crisis unfold for the team (ok, several but we’ll start with the first) which has the Feds and the NSA breathing down Araknet’s neck like a bad Tinder date. The government now has proof that the completely neutral provider’s service is being used to fund terrorist activities and decides to send in NSA agent Rebecca Stroud (Mira Sorvino) to shake things up and pressure the company into working with the Feds in trying to catch the bad guys using Araknet to run drugs, sell guns, plan chemical attacks, that sort of thing, or risk losing the company, their personal assets, everything. Ms. Strode is however politely told to piss off while Nick (Adam Brody), Ronald (Edi Gathegi), Wes (Ron Perlman), and Mara (Addison Timlin) regroup to see what their next steps are.

Next we see where the disruptor from season two has landed, and she’s doing damn good for herself. After leaving Araknet with a fairly large dagger in it’s back, Izzy Morales (Otmara Marrero) fled the country to live in Cuba with her boyfriend, a few horses, and no internet. However it doesn’t take long for the excitement of creating workable yet unhackable internet services for the local community to draw her back in, but the rules are different in Cuba, and Izzy finds herself in jail and at the mercy of an American NSA agent who’ll do anything to find a backdoor in Araknet. With looking at either years in a Cuban prison or extradition to America to work with the NSA in hopes of destroying what Izzy helped build, she opts to be bffs with agent Stroud who begins to show signs of irrational behavior, irritability, and symptoms of OCD. Kind of metal health Molotov cocktail with guns and international clearance. Not good.

Ms. Stroud is far more than she pretends to be. Image courtesy of meaww.com

Finding investors willing to take a chance in a company whose product has less than a million users and who’s under active investigation becomes a huge problem for the team, with only one company willing to stick their neck out under the condition that they only pony up the funds when Araknet hits a million users. This leads Nick to covertly pull a massive publicity stunt in order to build the public’s trust in a new all-in-one life app that his team is working on that basically runs every aspect of your life, securely. However, the stress from the constant pressure begins to tear the team apart, with delays in the app release, Wes’ assets seized, relationship problems between Nick and Mara, Mara and Wes’ show down, a nearly successful hacking into Araknet, and Ronnie’s old life creeping back into his new life of CEO, loving husband, and doting father, at the center of it. It literally becomes a race against time, and the NSA, to stop everything from imploding with no break in sight, and a season finale that will leave you stunned.

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