Honestly, I find this third season to be weaker than the ones before it. Don't take me wrong, it's still entertaining and anyway better than most detective shows, but it just isn't as good as the first two seasons. I felt the series started getting worse after the first two SP episodes (which were both very good!); the 3rd and 4th SP were okay but not great, the 5th was quite bad, and this season that came after it is just so-and-so. Some episodes are still very good, but some much weaker (like the double episode season finale, for example); Furuhata's character is borderline annoying in a coupla scenes, and the way Imaizumi's character is written just isn't funny anymore, more like embarrassing. The jazzy score is always great though.