'High Seas' Season 3: Alejandra Onieva gets her time to shine, but Carolina's story needs more focus
Spoilers for Season 3 of 'High Seas'
In the third season of 'High Seas' aka 'Alta Mar' on Netflix, a few things have changed. The first two seasons helped us get to know the characters well and set up relationships that were tried and tested. Season 3 of 'High Seas' picks up one and a half years after the events of the second season, and this time, the Villanueva sisters, Eva (Ivana Baquero) and Carolina (Alejandra Onieva) are once again boarding the Barbara de Braganza for a voyage, but now they are different people.
For one, Eva is now a successful author, having published her novel 'Lost Souls' which she wrote while she was aboard the Barbara de Braganza. Meanwhile, Carolina, who is now married to Fernando Fabregas (Eloy Azorín), is trying to break out of her shell. And so, she bought a new ship which will embark on its maiden voyage delivering cargo. Eva is also single seeing as Nicolas Vasquez (Jon Kortajarena) chose to be with his wife instead. When Eva and Nicolas met and fell in love in the first two seasons, Nicolas had thought his wife was dead after she was captured by Nazis in the Second World War. It is only after he falls in love with Eva that he learns that his wife is alive and waiting for him in Argentina.
But enough about Eva and Nicolas. The star-crossed lovers were the main focus of the first two seasons of the show and would undoubtedly have been viewers' favorite characters. While Eva and Nicolas are separated for the most part of this season, Eva still has someone else to run around solving mysteries with. That someone is the Brazilian spy, Fabio (Marco Pigossi).
The star of Season 3, however, is Alejandra Onieva, who after playing the timid, shy Carolina, has now been given the chance to pull double duty. This time around, she also plays Diana, a new character who has nefarious intentions. The real Carolina is captured and sedated while Diana masquerades around as the former, trying to get closer to Eva to find out the progress of Fabio's investigations.
As Diana playing Carolina, Onieva shows us that she is an actress who has more up her sleeves. Diana is mean, nefarious, sly, cunning, and let's be honest, we can use many more unflattering words to describe her. Diana is everything that Carolina is not and that is exactly where Onieva takes the center stage this time around.
However, while Onieva got her chance to shine, her character was once again relegated to the background as the victim. We are talking about Carolina here, of course. More often than not, Carolina is kidnapped and gagged and waiting for someone to save her. We were disappointed that the same happened again since Season 3 built up our hopes by showing us that Carolina wanted to be more independent of her husband. We were excited to see that play out and we certainly felt robbed that Carolina did not get her time to shine.
'High Seas' Season 3 is now streaming on Netflix.