Warning: SPOILERS for Hanna Season 3.
Hanna (Esmé Creed-Miles) got the right ending in Hanna season 3 that gives the teenage super-soldier a just reward after everyone she lost and everything she endured. When Hanna season 3 began, the eponymous heroine teamed up with Marissa Wiegler (Mireille Enos) and John Carmichael (Dermot Mulroney) to take down UTRAX and the Chairman of the Pioneer Group, Gordon Evans (Ray Liotta). When the dust settled, Hanna ended up alone in the world but free to write her own destiny and leave all of the violence and bad memories behind.
In many ways, Hanna is a tragic heroine because, for all of her gifts, she was denied the chance to ever be truly normal. Hanna was literally born to be a killer since she was genetically engineered with wolf DNA by the CIA to become a government-sponsored assassin. After her father, Erik Heller (Joel Kinnaman), saved the baby Hanna from UTRAX, he hid her in the Romanian wilderness and trained the girl to be a fighter. In Hanna season 3, she sadly stated, "I've been fighting all my life, even with myself" because violence and resistance are all she's ever known. Hanna found purpose in her personal missions; helping Marissa expose UTRAX's crimes and protecting Abbas Naziri (Adam Bessa), who she fell in love with, became the young super-soldier's crusades in Hanna season 3. Although Hanna ultimately achieved her goals, she suffered another personal tragedy when Marissa died at the end of Hanna season 3. Marissa was her former adversary-turned-surrogate mother, and Wiegler's death essentially orphaned Hanna once again.
Hanna season 3 - and the Amazon Prime Video series as a whole - ended with Hanna finally freed of UTRAX so that she can move to the United States, and this is the right way to end Hanna's story. The CIA gave Hanna a new identity as "Grace Elder" so she can start over in Boston where no one knows who she is. It's a clean break from the violence and tragedy of Hanna's past and it's a chance to start over completely. In Boston, which is rich with universities attended by bright students, Hanna can finish her education and choose a new life for herself. Although Hanna did want to stay with Naziri, she knew that she would never be free of her past if she remained in Europe since nearly every corner of the continent is filled with violent memories. A clean break and a new life in Boston is the best reward for Hanna.
Hanna season 3's action-packed climax also brought the series full-circle by taking place in a forest. Hanna raced to the Austrian farmhouse to save Naziri and his young daughter, Nadiya (Leann Hamon) from UTRAX but she had the advantage by engaging the soldiers in the wild. Erik raised Hanna in the Romanian wilderness so she was comfortably in her element during Hanna's final face-off with UTRAX's troops and her rival, Sandy Phillips (Áine Rose Daly). Staging Hanna's final battle in a forest was a clever way to acknowledge her beginning before Hanna finally broke free from her violent past. In Hanna season 3's final airport scene, Hanna has even shed the platinum blonde locks of the Mia Wolff identity UTRAX gave her and Hanna reverted back to her natural hair color and self.
Hanna's season 3 ending isn't a happy one but bittersweet, which also feels right. Hanna suffered too much tragedy to close out her series with total triumph. Hanna could also have chosen to kill off its eponymous heroine, perhaps by making the ultimate sacrifice to save Naziri, but that also wouldn't have felt right or been true to how Hanna has been a survivor all of her life. Giving Hanna a chance to live a normal life is the best way to honor her heroism, and the series smartly left her story open-ended in case there's ever a Hanna season 4. Hanna is about the teenage super-soldier growing up amidst impossible circumstances, so if audiences ever see Hanna again, it will be as an adult who has hopefully become someone new while still being Hanna.
Hanna Season 3 is streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
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