At this point in the run of the Netflix thriller Fake Profile, we get the feeling that creator Pablo Illanes and his writers are throwing possible plotlines into a bowl, picking them out at random, and using those plots to create the new season. This third season is subtitled “Killer Honeymoon,” but more than ever, whatever passes for plot feels more like filler in between steamy sex scenes than anything else.
FAKE PROFILE SEASON 3: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
Opening Shot: We see Camila Román (Carolina Miranda) dancing at her club. Then a shot rings out and Camila goes down.
The Gist: One month earlier, Camila and her boyfriend, Miguel Estévez (Rodolfo Salas), are on vacation at a resort, happy to finally just be able to be with each other. As they make out on the balcony, they spy a young couple on a nearby balcony, and they all notice each other.
At dinner, that same couple, Juanita (Asia Ortega) and Rodrigo, get engaged, and ask Camila and Miguel to help them celebrate. They soon get along so well that later that night, in a hotel infinity pool, there’s thoughts of threesomes and swapping. That is, until Miguel sees a scar on Rodrigo’s lower back. He connects that with the fact that Rodrigo called him “Micky,” and Rodrigo realizes that the two of them already know each other.
In the meantime, Ángela Ferrer (Manuela González) is a fugitive from murder charges, and she is trying to calm her girlfriend Vannessa (Lidia San Jose), who is there with her. She vows that the two of them will see their kids again, but wants Vanne to know that nothing will tear them apart.
Miguel’s mood towards Camilia turns after that initial encounter with Juanita and Rodrigo, but he can’t tell her the real reason why he’s upset; instead, he frets that she decided to open up their relationship without discussing it first.
Indira (Alejandra Borrero), a police detective, is taken off the case against Ángela by her boss, but when someone who was involved with the murders she’s accused of wakes up from his coma, he insists on talking to Indira. That’s when he admits to something that completely changes the nature of the case. Meanwhile, back at the Riviera Esmerelda, a new au pair named Becky (Laura Osma) uses her skills to get Miguel’s teenage son to reveal where his mother, Ángela, is hiding out.
What Shows Will It Remind You Of? Created by Pablo Illanes, Fake Profile is a combination of Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct.
Our Take: The third season of Fake Profile has a lot of characters, a lot of plot threads, a ton of unsolved killings, and definitely some predictable mysteries, like just how Miguel and Rodrigo know each other. We’re not even sure how the plots intersect anymore. They may not. We didn’t even mention a third major plot because we’re not even sure we remember who those characters were from the second season. A fourth plot involves a singer named Noa (Penelope Guerrero), who wows when she auditions at Camila’s club. How Noa knows Camila and how she’ll factor into the craziness is yet to be seen.
But, of course, there’s a whole lot of steaminess, and only in a show like Fake Profile could someone cover up seeing someone from his past that he wanted to keep in the past by saying that he didn’t appreciate the threesome or foursome or whatever it was that was developing in the pool.
Performance Worth Watching: We still somehow appreciate how Carolina Miranda, who plays Camila, manages to play all of this craziness straight without a hint of campiness.
Sex And Skin: Yes and yes. Lots of both.
Parting Shot: Indira gets a call and finds Ángela in a cage hanging over the floor of a warehouse.
Sleeper Star: Penelope Guerrero’s performance as Noa was fun to watch, and we hope that smoky singing voice we heard was hers and not the voice of someone dubbing it in.
Most Pilot-y Line: The entire show is silly as hell, so to pinpoint one moment seems like a futile exercise.
Our Call: SKIP IT. Fake Profile has finally collapsed under the weight of its own silliness, because the third season has so many incoherent plots, it was hard to even concentrate on who was doing what to whom.
Joel Keller (@joelkeller) writes about food, entertainment, parenting and tech, but he doesn’t kid himself: he’s a TV junkie. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, RollingStone.com, VanityFair.com, Fast Company and elsewhere.
