Party Down: Season 3

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Starz | Season Premiere Date: February 24, 2023

Summary: More than 10 years later, the third season returns to finds the catering team working other jobs, but when they are surprisingly reunited, they find themselves in familiar roles once again.

Creator: Paul Rudd and Dan Etheridge

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

Season 3 Episodes

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S3:E6. Sepulveda Basin High School Spring Play Opening Night
Air Date: March 31, 2023
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S3:E5. Once Upon A Time "Proms Away" Prom-otional Event
Air Date: March 24, 2023
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S3:E4. KSGY-95 Prizewinner's Luau
Air Date: March 17, 2023

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Kelly Lawler

Feb 23, 2023

The rare nostalgia trip that doesn't actually feel like it's lamely wistful for the past. The cater waiters are as stuck in the unhappy present as the rest of us, and their misery is our hilarity. That recognition of the passage of time and understanding what life is like in 2023 is the key to the new season's success. Read full review

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Judy Berman

Feb 16, 2023

Season 3 is great. By which I mean that most of the five (out of six total) episodes I screened had me laughing so hard that I gasped for air and tears streamed down my face and I very nearly fell off the couch. Read full review

Inkoo Kang

Feb 27, 2023

The revival does not disappoint, setting a new standard for series resurrections by being unafraid to tackle the low-grade dismay of financial precarity and middle-age failure. ... But the character beats are disrupted by the series’ now creaky commitment to broader gags. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Feb 22, 2023

Party Down returns on generally solid footing, generating some laughs, many smiles and a lot of nostalgic warmth. Read full review

The Telegraph Benji Wilson

Feb 23, 2023

Party Down is a slow-burn piece of workplace comedy in which a bunch of losers occasionally win. There are laughs but few side-splitters. It’s endearing rather than explosive. Yet as with The Office (UK and US) and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, there is something about the ensemble here that just clicks. Read full review

Nina Metz

Feb 22, 2023

The show at its best generates such a happy-go-lucky absurdity amid the ego-smashing reality of anyone struggling to find a foothold in showbiz. But it’s actually Ron’s story — of an everyman who doesn’t want to be famous, he just wants modest success in business — that feels most potent to me. Read full review

Daniel D'Addario

Feb 16, 2023

In order for its story to work, the characters have to be where we left them, which is not what almost any of them wanted. But it comes to feel dour, tonally unbalanced — a party one cannot wait to leave. Read full review

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nexrsa

Jun 5, 2023

Just as strong as it was 10 years ago. I would have liked more than 6 episodes though as the original series had 10 episodes per season. It is very rare for a reboot to keep up such high quality.

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drlowdon

Apr 16, 2023

Over a decade since it was cancelled, the Party Down crew (well, most of them) return with Ron still doing his best and ultimately failing to control his employees.

It’s a shame that we only get six new episodes, but this long awaited return fares a lot better than the majority ofOver a decade since it was cancelled, the Party Down crew (well, most of them) return with Ron still doing his best and ultimately failing to control his employees.

It’s a shame that we only get six new episodes, but this long awaited return fares a lot better than the majority of revivals (Arrested Development, The X-Files, Heroes to name but a few), and more than lives up to it’s original run. Fingers crossed we don’t have to wait another thirteen years to see more new episodes!… Expand

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Spock007

Feb 25, 2023

I saw the first episode and it was not as good as the old show. There is hope though.

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MetacriticOnur

Apr 25, 2023

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 3

81
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: February 24, 2023
- tbd
  S3:E6. Sepulveda Basin High School Spring Play Opening Night
  Air Date: March 31, 2023
- tbd
  S3:E5. Once Upon A Time "Proms Away" Prom-otional Event
  Air Date: March 24, 2023
- tbd
  S3:E4. KSGY-95 Prizewinner's Luau
  Air Date: March 17, 2023
- tbd
  S3:E3. First Annual PI2A Symposium
  Air Date: March 10, 2023
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  S3:E2. Jack Botty's Delayed Post-Pandemic Surprise Party
  Air Date: March 3, 2023
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  S3:E1. Kyle Bradway is Nitromancer
  Air Date: February 24, 2023
Season 2

84
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: April 23, 2010
Season 1

66
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: March 20, 2009