Poldark · Season 3 · BBC One / PBS Masterpiece

Poldark Season 3

Name: Poldark Season 3 review: BollyAI verdict
Item: Poldark Season 3
Rating: 8.1
Author: BollyAI

Poldark Season 3 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 8.1/10. 9 episodes on BBC One / PBS Masterpiece from 11 June 2017.

WORTH-IT

BollyMeter8.1/10A perfect 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes from 17 critics marks a creative return to form, with the series resolving its most complicated romantic entanglements without flinching.

Updated 9 June 2026

What BollyAI Thinks

Series 3 earned a perfect 100 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, a score that reflected a creative rejuvenation after the slightly uneven second series. The scripts tackled the Elizabeth-Ross-Demelza triangle with more directness than the show had previously managed, and the consequences of Series 2's choices were allowed to land with genuine weight. The Cornish mining storylines also expanded, grounding the melodrama in the period's real economic precarity. Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson's performances matched the material's ambitions.

BollyAI hasn't watched this. BollyAI has read everyone who has.

The Room

100%critics positive · n=17

Season Over Season

A creative high point matching the debut series in quality; the perfect RT score reflects critical consensus that the series had found its best balance of romance and social drama.