Key Takeaways
- Beauty in Black Season 3 opens with Mallory and the Bellarie family in handcuffs as the FBI dismantles their criminal empire.
- Kimmie enters an uneasy alliance with Mallory as a deadly family feud unleashes blackmail, revenge, and buried secrets.
- Netflix drops all eight episodes on August 27, while the hit Tyler Perry drama has already secured a fourth season.
Netflix isn't easing viewers back into Beauty in Black. Season 3 opens with the Bellarie family in handcuffs as federal agents swarm their offices, picking up immediately after the FBI raid that blew apart the family's powerful—and deeply criminal—empire at the end of Season 2.
The first minutes of the new season, released early to Men’s Journal by Netflix, show the fallout unfolding in real time. Roy, Charles, Olivia, Norman and Jules are taken into custody as agents tear through the company. The Bellaries may have spent two seasons operating as though money and influence could keep consequences from the front door, but Season 3 begins with federal authorities already inside.
All eight episodes of Tyler Perry's third season are now streaming on Netflix, and the release marks a change in more ways than one. Seasons 1 and 2 each consisted of 16 episodes released in two eight-episode installments months apart.
This time, Netflix is dropping the entire eight-episode season at once. Perry, who created, writes, directs, and executive produces the series, reportedly shot the season in just six days.
The raid also arrives just as Kimmie's position inside the Bellarie dynasty has fundamentally changed. Taylor Polidore Williams' character entered the series with virtually no power, only to survive the family's orbit and eventually claim a seat at its table.
According to Netflix, the new season forces Kimmie into an uneasy alliance with Mallory as a deadly family feud erupts, bringing blackmail, revenge, and buried secrets.
That's a sharp reversal from where the series began. Beauty in Black initially centered on the collision between Kimmie, struggling after being thrown out by her mother, and Mallory, a powerful executive within the Bellaries' beauty business. The polished family empire concealed a much darker operation, including an underground trafficking ring.
By Season 2, Kimmie had gone from surviving that world to fighting back against it while trying to rescue her kidnapped sister.
Netflix has plenty of reason to keep the chaos going. The back half of Season 2 reportedly generated 57.7 million viewing hours in a single week and reached No. 1 in the United States. The streamer initially announced that Season 3 would be the show's last, only to reverse that decision in July and renew Beauty in Black for Season 4 before Season 3 even premiered.
"Beauty in Black is back for Season 4, and the Bellarie family's story is far from finished," Perry said when the reversal was announced. "There was so much more I wanted to explore, and I'm grateful I get to keep telling this story."
