{"id":450455,"date":"2026-02-03T04:23:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/450455\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T04:23:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T04:23:13","slug":"a-huge-episode-for-primal-season-3-just-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/450455\/","title":{"rendered":"A Huge Episode for Primal Season 3 Just Dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"

Full spoilers follow for Primal<\/a> Season 3, Episode 4, \u201cPrey for the Wicked,\u201d which is available on Adult Swim and HBO Max now.<\/p>\n

Wow, I didn\u2019t see this coming so soon. Fang is back<\/a>! And so are her babies and Mira, all of whom we last saw in the Primal Season 2 finale back in 2022. Not only has our favorite T. rex returned, but by the end of this episode she\u2019s been reunited with Spear\u2026 or what\u2019s left of him, anyway.<\/p>\n

More on Primal Season 3:<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m getting ahead of myself. The first three episodes of this season have taken their time just getting us acquainted with the zombie version of Spear, and while it was clear that our undead hero was looking for his lost family \u2013 and specifically for Fang \u2013 even if he wasn\u2019t entirely conscious of it, it didn\u2019t seem like series creator Genndy Tartakovsky was in any rush to reunite them. Yes, Tartakovsky hinted<\/a> that the beautiful girl would return eventually, and a trailer gave us a glimpse<\/a> of her too, but so far Primal Season 3 has very much been centered on zombie Spear, so much so that it wasn\u2019t even clear how much time had passed since his death \u2013 er, \u201cdeath\u201d \u2013 in the Season 2 finale.<\/p>\n

So I was a bit surprised to find that this episode opens with a flashback, and not just any flashback, but one to Spear\u2019s funeral. How heartbreaking is it when, among the array of villagers mourning Spear, we see Mira intensely dancing in her grief? And even more touching, there\u2019s Fang off in the distance, watching the ceremony with her babes. She might not fully understand the nature of the funeral, but she knows well enough what it means.<\/p>\n

\"null\"<\/a>Fang watches Spear’s funeral from afar.<\/p>\n

Months later, Fang and her (growing) offspring are living harmoniously with Mira\u2019s people, though when a child playfully winds up straddling one of the little dinos and raises a spear a la Spear, Fang reacts badly to the sight. But it\u2019s in this moment that she realizes that Mira is pregnant with Spear\u2019s child, and damn if we don\u2019t have our second tears-worthy moment in the episode as Fang starts digging a nest for Mira.<\/p>\n

Of course, Mira and Fang are both heartbroken over the loss of Spear, and they\u2019ve formed a close bond in the months since his death. As usual, Tartakovsky and his team of artists convey these emotions wordlessly, if not silently \u2013 never underestimate how many different meanings a growl from Fang can carry. The scenes between the two also raise the question of how exactly Mira and Fang will react when they meet the zombie version of Spear.<\/p>\n

But first, there\u2019s this week\u2019s action, which involves a swarm of hateful hog-like creatures that invade Mira\u2019s village. That they don\u2019t straight-up kill their prey, but instead take them back to their even more horrible queen hog-like creature so that she can feast on the villagers while she nurses her giant baby-hog things\u2026 well, it\u2019s all just a reminder of the bloody cycle of life that permeates the world of Primal.<\/p>\n

One of the themes of Primal has always been that friendship and love are stronger than any, well, primal instincts to survive.\u201c<\/p>\n

But one of the themes of Primal has always been that friendship and love are stronger than any, well, primal instincts to survive. What purpose was left in Spear\u2019s life, or Fang\u2019s, after they lost their original families if they hadn\u2019t found each other? So when Fang\u2019s offspring make it clear that they want to be part of the search party that will attempt to rescue the missing villagers because they want to save their little human friend, you can basically see that very notion written on Mira\u2019s face. This is what it\u2019s all about.<\/p>\n

So while it seemed at the start of this season as if Spear\u2019s revival as a zombie could\u2019ve taken place years \u2013 or many years \u2013 after his death, possibly even after the epilogue of Season 2\u2019s finale when we met Mira and Spear\u2019s young daughter, we now know that it\u2019s only been a matter of months. And beyond the question of what will happen next, now that this unlikely family is finally reunited, there\u2019s also the matter of where \u2013 and what condition \u2013 Spear will be in by the time that Season 2 epilogue comes to pass years from now. The way the scene played, Spear was gone from their lives. So now we must ask ourselves: Will Fang and Mira lose him again?<\/p>\n

\"null\"<\/a>Mira gets it.<\/p>\n

Questions and Notes From Anachronistic History<\/p>\n

Man, I missed Fang. Even just the way she sleeps is so cool.Primal\u2019s third season has been pretty heavy so far, and while this episode is full of emotion, action, and gore, it\u2019s also got several welcome lightweight moments, mostly courtesy of Fang\u2019s li’l ones and the kid from Mira\u2019s tribe who\u2019s always getting into trouble.It\u2019s great seeing the dino pups get some chomping action themselves against the pig creatures.And speaking of those two, they really need names at this point\u2026I confess to being a little bit confused about how the old shaman from the season opener who revived Spear could\u2019ve seen his people slaughtered prior to that episode without Mira and her crew knowing about it. No cell phones, I guess.Cool effect when Mira\u2019s fellow warrior snuffs out the campfire so that they can see better in the dark, with the scene then changing from mostly blacks to shades of blue.What was that ritual those two village people performed on the old shaman\u2019s staff? Hmmm\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Full spoilers follow for Primal Season 3, Episode 4, \u201cPrey for the Wicked,\u201d which is available on Adult…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-450455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}