There are still many gemlike elements in Season 3, like a scene in the second episode, in which Antoine a formerly dissolute second-line musician who is now a sober family man, teaching music in a run-down public school is alone in a classroom.
It was a sober realization, due in part to the Starz deal going down in flames and to difficulties in negotiations with content owners, that separating the businesses was a necessary step toward an inevitable conclusion.