Carmen Sandiego- Season 4 (Final)

NOTE: There are no spoilers for this season, but there is one comment that could possibly give something away if you hadn't seen the end of the last season.

8/10 

Season 4 ends the show with Carmen's final battles against the criminal organization V.I.L.E. 

This is another fun season. Not much to say about the core of the show that hadn't been previously said: it's a fun, action kids show with fun characters. One specific highlight to this season is that Inspector Devineaux (voiced by Rafael Petardi), who in the past has been convinced that Carmen (Jane the Virgin's Gina Rodriguez) is a villain, has finally realized that isn't the case. I actually found the character a lot more fun to watch now that his job isn't just to be stubborn and fall prey to forced television misconceptions. The character gets a chance to demonstrate that he is a competent detective. Also, this has one of the show's best fight scenes.

A lot of fans online have complained that they found the finale wasn't as strong as they wanted or was lacking an expected, big action-packed finale. Personally, I disagree. I liked the finale; it paid proper closure to all the characters. In general, I felt people wanted too much out of the show. I think they wanted this to be like a lot of kids television programs that have more adult crossover appeal and get away with more than kids programs back in the day did. CS has never tried to be that. It has usually gone with a softer, more child-friendly touch, such as the villains wiping the memories of captured agents instead of eliminating them, and there's nothing wrong with that. 

That having been said, there were parts where the writing could've been stronger. This show suffers from something that I've seen a few kids shows over the years suffer from: being more focused on stand-alone episodes than the overreaching plot, which results in a final season that definitely didn't feel fully planned out ahead of time. The pacing could've been better. The show has a lot of villains, and the writers obviously didn't have the time to give them all a final send-off. Surprisingly, Paperstar (Kimiko Glenn), one of the most regular and dangerous foes in this, gets short shrift. And those two new V.I.L.E. cadets from last season, who were implied to be prominent threats, don't appear at all. Also, Carmen's hacker friend Player (Stranger Things' Finn Wolfhard) has go to attend regular school for the first time. This is a subplot that goes nowhere, adds nothing, and eats up precious final season time.

Overall, if you or kids like this show so far, you should still have a good time with this.