"Uh-oh! Y'all ready for snow?"
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Season 3, up to this point, has been an interesting beast, and despite my
enjoyment, a little bit hard to peg down. Whereas the show's second season was a
vibrant effort to take everything about the show and recalibrate it to
perfection, Summer Camp Island's third season buries those leads in favor of
more pointed explorations of its characters and lore. That's difficult to
complain about, really—SCI is no less of a workhorse, determined to
challenge itself whenever it can—but it's also turned SCI into a
moderately different show with about as many things to like as things to take
quiet umbrage with, having been able to take a step back and assess its
accomplishments over the past half-season."Where's the Confetti," curiously enough, does a nice job of epitomizing those overall trends, a strong and compelling episode on its own that feels a bit perplexing under the weight of the season's ambitions. There are certain expectations that come with an episode like this that the conflicts of the past chapter get resolved, and while "Where's the Confetti" succeeds at that, it feels equally motivated to exist in its own space while paying limited dues to what came before.