Collider’s review finds the third series of Conan O’Brien Must Go most effective when it allows O’Brien’s familiar, unpredictable comic persona to drive the travel format. Across four HBO episodes, he visits India, the Netherlands, Morocco and the Philippines, meeting listeners of his podcast while turning cultural encounters into increasingly awkward and absurd comic set-pieces.

The reviewer says the series balances occasional overextended gags with O’Brien’s genuine curiosity about the people and places he visits. Examples include playing cricket with children in India, performing a Vincent van Gogh impression in the Netherlands, trying to bury assistant Sona Movsesian in the Sahara, and confronting a talking duck while considering balut in the Philippines; the show has now covered 11 countries over three series.