If Haunted: Season 3, which has the exact same format as the first two seasons and the Latin-America spin-off, were a series of horror vignettes rather than ostensibly real-life accounts, it’d still be let down by its writing, acting, and CGI, but it wouldn’t be offensive. It has just always left a sour taste as this series tries to convince us that any of this is true and then makes such paltry efforts to prove it. Of course, none of these supernatural shenanigans can be proved, since they’re all impossible. But if there was a modicum of effort that’d probably be nice. Alas, though, there isn’t a modicum of effort to be found anywhere in these latest six episodes, which are at least kind enough to be brief. Unfortunately, there isn’t a single standout episode like the conversation therapy story in the second season, which not only could have been true but probably was. The premiere looks for a moment as though it might be about fundamentalism and then quickly pivots into being about a serial killer hillbilly who plays the banjo. As ever, episodes pluck from a litany of horror clichés to build the re-enactments, while the apparent “victims” sit in a roundtable format and discuss the events with po-faced seriousness.

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