Mon Mar 01, 2021 at 7:19pm ET
Zoe Levin and Brendan Scannell on Bonding. Pic credit: Netflix
Bonding returned to Netflix for its second season in January and was a much-improved show the second time around.
It ended with the characters in a very different place in their lives and that opens up a lot of doors for Bonding Season 3.
Here is everything we know so far about Bonding Season 3.
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This article provides everything that is known about Bonding Season 3 and all related news. As such, this article will be updated over time with news, rumors, and analysis. Meanwhile, let’s dig down into what is known so far.
How the BDSM Community s Criticism of Bonding Inspired Change in Season 2
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In the penultimate episode of the second season of Netflix’s “Bonding,” Pete, aka Master Carter (Brendan Scannell), delivers a stand-up comedy set that his best friend and employer-dominatrix, Tiff, aka Mistress May (Zoe Levin), says he did not have permission to share because he is not truly of the community. In the next minute, an agent in the audience calls it “a hilarious take on a world I know nothing about.” These two reactions, while diametrically opposed in emotional delivery, are ultimately saying the same thing: Pete has power and a platform to share secrets of the BDSM world, but that comes with great responsibility because many watching and listening to him will take his word and only his word as gospel.
When
Bonding first hit Netflix in spring 2019, there hadn’t been much else like it in mainstream television. In its story of Tiff (Zoe Levin), a college student who moonlights as a dominatrix by the name of Mistress May, and her friend Pete (Brendan Scannell), a comedian who Tiff convinces to become her assistant,
Bonding positioned itself as a stylish, funny, and sex-positive series that didn’t shy away from its kinks. Based on the real-life experiences of creator Rightor Doyle,
Bonding set its odd-couple buddy comedy against the backdrop of the dominatrix community, hoping to turn stereotypes about BDSM on their head. But soon after the premiere, some viewers began voicing disappointment in how the show portrayed said community, propagating certain negative stereotypes, and taking a too casual approach to how its characters negotiated consent a fundamental facet of any dom/sub dynamic or any relationship, for that matter.