Squid Game Season 3

A GREAT ENDING TO THE SERIES!

Season 3 was nothing short of my expectations for the final season. It was a blast of emotions. Of course with how the season 2 ended I did start watching it knowing my favorites will die. And of course the ending was the most realistic one.

The part that took me by surprise was player 149 killing her son to save jun-hee and the baby. I knew the mother-son wouldn't make it together from the trailer but never in my wildest dreams did I expect that to happen. And then her hanging herself was a shock.

And then Dae-ho I did not see that confession coming. He was kne my favorites in the second season but seeing how he lied about himself it was satisfying to see him die.

Hyeon-ju she was a character which took all of us by surprise in season 2 dying in the first game of season was very disappointing. I knew she would die sooner or later but killing her off in the first game when she was so close to surviving was a stab in my heart.

And again I'm disappointed how long it took Jun-ho to realise he was being fooled by the captain like the whole season 2 bro was just wandering around trying to find the island and when he finally did it just got burned to ashes. One of the bad parts was the VIPs. Their acting was very bad it felt very forced them trying to portray themselves as some superior beings was total

The soundtracks of S3 are great aswell. Overall squid game final season did not dissapoint my expectations

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some series are just not meant to have multiple seasons

nothing will unfortunately ever compare to the first season.

the season just feels dragged out and the characters werent even interesting anymore bc their actions and deaths became predictable

yes it was basically a new set of games but because the main character stayed the same, it became pretty boring and annoying

i think it wouldve been better if they actually just put out a new set of games and player

and its just bad for me bc at the end... nothing was still resolved... like the cops didnt even find the island and the games are still going on for the next season (probably)

and like its just weird that the creator made this thing to shed light on how the division of rich and poor is and the greed for money yet i know damn well the reason this season got an addition and will probably be dragged out more is because it makes more money for them.. just ironic.

it really wasnt for the art anymore at this point, they're just greedy to keep the fame of squid games going lol

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Squid Game 3 – Capitalism’s Knife is Now a Plastic Spoon

Once upon a red light, green light, Squid Game burst onto the global stage like a Molotov cocktail tossed into the living room of late-stage capitalism. It was brutal, brilliant, and blisteringly clear: the system isn’t broken—it’s functioning exactly as intended, and it grinds the desperate beneath its boot. Season 1 wasn't just a show; it was a cultural autopsy. Equal parts thriller and thinkpiece, it painted desperation in high-contrast red and green and let us watch as humanity's worst systems played out as children's games with blood-slicked stakes.

Season 3? Oh honey, this isn’t even the same game. What was once a scalpel slicing deep into the flesh of inequality has been dulled into a wet noodle flailing in slow motion. There’s no precision left—only noise. And not even good noise. More like someone cranked up a toddler’s karaoke mic and handed them a script scribbled on a napkin at a Netflix focus group meeting.

Let’s not mince words: Squid Game Season 3 is a narrative wreck, emotionally bankrupt and thematically lobotomized. It is a stunning masterclass in how to completely fumble a legacy.

The original Squid Game was a thesis statement disguised as entertainment, a Trojan horse of social critique smuggled into our binge queues with the charm of a high-concept thriller. Every marble dropped, every betrayal made, every soul-crushing death—these weren’t just dramatic beats; they were scalpel-precise incisions exposing the rot at the heart of a system that thrives on desperation. The show trusted us. It gave us the brutal poetry of survival and let us connect the dots ourselves. The violence wasn’t just spectacle—it was structural, symbolic, suffocating. You didn’t just watch Squid Game, you felt the breathless chokehold of capitalism tightening around each character’s neck.

Season 3? It feels like the show got handed a whiteboard in a Netflix meeting room that just says “RICH = BAD” in Comic Sans, underlined three times with a dry-erase marker that’s running out of ink.

Gone is the razor-sharp commentary and layered metaphor. In its place is a blunt-force, TikTok-friendly morality that reads more like a “hot take” than a thought-out script. The satire’s been sanded down to a nub, its teeth removed, its voice flattened. It no longer asks hard questions about the systems we live under—it just waves vaguely in the direction of rich people and tells you to boo.

This is not critique. This is a PowerPoint presentation wearing blood-soaked cosplay. It’s all surface, no soul. All vibes, no value. A once-thrilling dissection of inequality has been transformed into algorithm-approved content—ironically, the very thing Squid Game was once warning us about. Capitalism didn’t just survive the show’s message—it bought the rights to Season 3 and turned it into marketing.

It’s almost impressive—almost—how aggressively Season 3 undermines the very foundation it once built so meticulously. Where Season 1 crafted its games like precision-engineered nightmares, each rule tethered tightly to the show’s themes and character arcs, Season 3 tosses all that aside like a party balloon filled with confetti and budget. The games now feel like a child’s first Dungeons & Dragons campaign: arbitrarily fatal, poorly thought-out, and constantly rewritten mid-session by a flustered Dungeon Master trying to impress their crush.

The internal logic—the thing that made Season 1’s horror so effective—is shattered beyond recognition. Instead of tension rooted in consistent cause and effect, we get plot points that sprout out of nowhere like weeds in a cracked sidewalk. Characters no longer respond to circumstances in psychologically coherent ways. They lurch from one decision to the next with the grace and direction of a GPS signal inside a parking garage: lost, lagging, and perpetually “recalculating.”

It’s as if the writers assembled this story by feeding Season 1 into an AI prompt labeled “make more Squid Game” and called it a day. The result? Plot threads are introduced and dropped with zero consequence, character arcs are flattened into soulless utility tools—moved around the board not because it makes sense, but because the plot demands it. Motivations shift scene to scene like mood rings on meth.

And the world building? Once grounded in grim realism and systemic cruelty, now feels like a cosplay carnival version of itself. Squid Game once felt terrifyingly real because it mirrored the emotional logic of people trying to survive in a world rigged against them. Season 3 feels like a theme park attraction slapped together by someone who saw Season 1 through YouTube clips and didn’t take notes. It’s loud, it’s flashy, but when you scratch beneath the surface—there’s nothing there. No beating heart. No philosophical weight. Just vibes stapled to set pieces.

This isn’t evolution. It’s entropy masquerading as ambition.

Remember Gi-hun’s haunted eyes—those thousand-yard stares that told you everything you needed to know about a man on the brink, even in silence? Sae-byeok’s quiet resilience, every movement of hers a balancing act between survival and dignity? Or Ali’s pure, disarming kindness that shone through the blood-soaked chaos like a single shaft of sunlight piercing a dungeon?

Season 3 remembers none of it.

What once felt like a symphony of the human condition—grief, betrayal, desperation, fleeting hope—has been reduced to a soulless loop of cardboard stand-ins running through plot beats like it’s all just a formality. The emotional core of the show, the part that made us care about who lived, who died, and who broke along the way, has been surgically removed. In its place, we get a cast of one-note archetypes shuffled on and off the stage like NPCs in a side quest you can’t skip, with the exceptions of a few like Jo Yu-ri here.

And the violence? Once it meant something. Every death in Season 1 was a punch to the gut, not just because it was shocking, but because it hurt. You knew these people. You felt them. The betrayal in the marble game didn’t just sting—it haunted you. But in Season 3, death is just punctuation. Bang. Splat. Move on. The camera lingers just long enough to grab a screengrab for the trailer, and then it’s on to the next soulless round.

There’s no weight to any of it. No intimacy, no fear, no catharsis. The show has forgotten how to earn emotion—it just assumes spectacle is enough. But spectacle without soul is just noise. And eventually, that noise turns to static.

You’re not watching because you’re invested—you’re watching because you’re waiting. Waiting for it to matter again. Waiting for it to feel again. But that moment never comes.

Season 1 left scars. Season 3 barely leaves a smudge.

Final Verdict
Squid Game Season 3 is what happens when a scalpel of social critique gets handed to someone who thinks they’re holding a glow stick. What was once a brutal, layered, and unsettling dissection of human desperation under capitalism has been reduced to a hollow echo chamber, screaming buzzwords into the algorithm void. It’s loud, it’s dumb, and it’s emotionally vacant—like watching a TED Talk get waterboarded by a Michael Bay trailer.

This isn’t just a bad season. It’s a creative betrayal. A franchise that once held a mirror to society has now turned that mirror into a selfie camera—preloaded with filters, sponsored hashtags, and an empty caption that just says “resistance is marketable.”

The satire? Gone. The soul? Evacuated. The logic? Hiding under a table somewhere, clutching a copy of Season 1 and sobbing quietly. What’s left is a parody of its former self—stripped of complexity, gutted of emotion, and regurgitated as content designed to trend for 24 hours before sinking into cultural irrelevance.

And that’s what makes it so offensive—not just the poor writing or the shallow execution, but the sheer audacity of it. It insults the intelligence of the audience, the artistry of the original, and the very real issues it once dared to confront. It’s the storytelling equivalent of desecrating a gravestone, then monetizing the footage.

Season 3 didn’t just drop the ball—it set the whole playground on fire and sold tickets to the blaze.

A plastic imitation of a diamond blade. Don’t waste your time and let it rot in the VIP lounge of missed potential.

Read this full review and my others review on ByRei.ink

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Boring, disappointing, and all of the above

First things first it was all predictable. You could predict almost everything while watching except the fighting sequence. The ending was spoiled by the director before the airing saying it is going to be a sad ending which already gave it away that Gi hun will die. The story was disappointing It felt like they just wanted to shock people by killing everyone. There was too much drama, especially with the kid. Netflix made it feel more like a money-making show than a good story. Season 3 was a complete disappointment to me. And I for sure knew this would happen. Felt like it was forcefully made and stretched cuz of the popularity. They should've just ended it after 1 season.

Guys please save your energy & time and don’t waste it on this!

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BIGGEST SCAM OF KDRAMA

The first season of Squid Game was PERFECT. No one can disagree with that fact. We all had to wait years for season 2 to be published only for it to come out as action kdrama with many mistakes that went viral. It had the biggest hype a Kdrama could possibly have, especially overseas and we all hoped for something great. Season 3 is simply the continuation with a different genre. It isn't just action now its a DISGUSTING sad drama. Sad because people dies, but also because a BABY was used to make it exciting. It should not be normalized to have a gun being pointed at a baby.

I understand the message, yes: money turns people into inhumane monsters which would even do that. However it isn't necessary. In season 1 we already saw the extent of human corruption, trying to top it with a baby was too much.

The fight scenes were nice, however many seemed just too similar, kinda repetitive. (and they definitely can't compete with recently published dramas)

Jo Yuri failed as actress and even though she continued to build up hype this drama was just insulting her talent. Visuals were cleary underpresented and it felt like she had one line and just stayed the "pregnant girl" throughout the drama, until she finished that.

Wi Ha Joon did great like in Season 1 - 3 nothing to criticize here. Sadly he sits in a sinking boat that.

Player 333 was so disgusting and contributes to the controversy regarding babies.

Lee Jin Wook's character was nice and I appreciate that at least he got a happy ending, however I'm not fine with the fact that he didn't even get to know his savior, even though she sat right in front of him.

The last thing that entirely destroys this drama are the VIPs. I understand that they had to be changed as they were criticized in both season 1 and 2, but this definitely wasn't it. My deepest hate to all the American actors who failed this great role. Jane Wong did perfectly, she was the only one who portrayed the rich & elegant vibe of a multi-millionare/billionaire. The other ones tried to be funny American dads watching sports and celebrating it. Total failure. Squid game was supposed to be a critic towards the elites especially with that Rothschild-like theme. Failed enormously with S3 VIPs.

The ending is actually fair. Every character got the ending they deserved in some way. However I really hate the idea of an American Squid Game
Overall, it is unfair to give it less than 4 stars, however I could understand a 0.5 rating because that's what it deserved, if we compare with other dramas released this month. Could've definitely spend time watching better dramas. I hope they don't try to expand the Squid Game franchise because they definitely don't deserve further success with this drama.

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Embarrassing and very disappointing sequel due to abysmal script

Maybe the screenwriter and director should have asked for help when suddenly in the position to come up with a sequel.

The continuation of the rather ingenious (because it works on so many levels) Squid Game is embarrassingly bad and sloppy written. Hardly anything makes sense, too much is just for justifying really bad script ideas. Like the utilisation of an infant. Who would let a very pregnant woman participate in the game - unless you have no ideas apart from making a newborn the centre of attention and of the fight to survive (and the reason for self sacrifice of course). And more children in general the driving force behind the motivation of characters. Well. it's like children in advertising - it always works. Here it is absolutely despicable, uninspired, and quite frankly pathetic.

Too many things didn't make sense: The motivation and obsession of the main character? It's not as if he is much interested in anybody else before the game, right? Couldn't figure out if it's his sense of justice or his hurt pride or what else that's making him that philanthropic and determined to end the game. And for that much money he couldn't find a bunch of people a little bit, well, make that a lot more professional? How could he expect to get away with that "tooth transmitter" in an obviously high tech environment? The insurgence of a few against dozens and dozens of armed minions? Sounds like a good idea? I could go on and on.

Of course it had moments. Especially liked the hiding game with the three different keys for instance. And I can be quite lenient toward (minor) plot inconsistencies - up to a certain point that is. But overall I was really annoyed by the lack of logic and common sense (that scene where that moron breaks into the house of the suspicious captain, anyone?) Not even the truly stellar cast could save this.

And if you thought the VIP scenes in the first season were cringeworthy - they are even more superficial and superfluous in the third season, not to mention the even worse acting.

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CASHGRAB AND DISSAPONTMENT WTF WAS EVEN THAT....

WAS DEATH OF ALL IS THE POINT OF THIS SERIES ? YES. WAS IT NECESSARY? MAYBE..?! BUT TO LET THE VIPS ESCAPE UNSCATHED ...... WTF!! WANNA MAKE HOLLYWOOD DEBUT ?......HELL YAH!!!! BUT A GIVE A GOOD STORY LINE? ......NAH!!
THATS WHAT I UNDERSTAND FROM IT. ALL THE BETRAYAL AND SELF SACRIFICE AND UGLYNESS OF HUMAN NATURE...... AINT THE ENDING ALL SAME REPATATION OF S1....WITH ADDITION OF FEW SURVIVERS & HERO'S DEMISE/SACRIFISE TO MAKE A POINT... WITH POLICE FAILLING AGAIN (SYSTEM FAILING ITS PEOPLE) AND INTRODUCTION TO A NEW FRANCHISE SO THAT THERE IS MORE CASH TO GRABE AT EXPENSE OF THE VIEWERS( WHO ALSO PARTICIPATE IN THIS GAME BY CHOICE OF WATCHING IT AS ENTERTAINMENT).... PARHAPS THE FOCAL POINT OF THIS CONCEPT.
IT HONESTLY FAILED IT SELF FROM ALL THE GLOBEL ATTENTION IT TRIED TO BE SO BIG AND EXPERIMENTAL THAT IT STUCK TO OLD PATTERN WITH NEW TWIST WITH THE MESSAGE THAT THE GAME WILL NEVER END. AND ALL PLAYERS CAN HAVE ONLY ONE WINNER.

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Should've stayed a one season show

You're telling me that 456 went back into the game to stop the games forever and bring down the VIPs/the institution and ended up reduced to a babysitter who lost his life at the end and accomplished nothing?? 🤬🤬

And Junho spent two full seasons looking for the island, only to find it 30 minutes before it's about to blow, proceeds to shoot a few screens/windows, finally confronts his brother again after three years and asks him "WHY?" and then swims back out before the island blows up?? What did he accomplish?? 🤬🤬

This season was horrible. If they were planning NOT to end the show at S1, they should've let 456 & Junho bring down the Front Man, the VIPs and end the games. What a disappointing conclusion to an otherwise good show.

A much better ending would've been Gihun (456) visiting his daughter after bringing an end to the games in Korea. After spending some quality time with his girl, on the way back to the airport he sees Cate Blanchett's character playing ddakji in the alleyway and he realises that the game has now gone global. Maybe it could've left the ending open to interpretation where he would try to stop the American games??

I'm just pissed. 456 was my favourite character from S1. He deserved to get his revenge on this horrible institution after everything he went through and everyone he lost. I knew he would end up sacrificing his life for the baby. I know it was noble of him to do but it was gut wrenching to see.

I also wanted to give a shout out to Hyunju (120) who was the other player that I really loved. The fact that she had all three keys and could've saved herself but went back for Junhee (222), the baby and Geumja (149) absolutely broke me because I knew in that moment that she had just sealed her fate and would die in that very game. What a contrast to how that piece of shit grandpa (100) was when he used to sharman to get through the exit and then closed the door on her. It breaks my heart that Junhee's baby will grow up not knowing how many people loved her and sacrificed their lives in order to protect her through this barbaric games😭💔

Finally, lets talk about the villians: 100, the piece of shit grandpa who annoyed me in every scene literally the moment he opened his damn mouth. He was such a horrible person from start to finish. Always suggesting things to do to progress the game, bullying people to do things his way, but being a coward where it counted. I wanted to see a more horrific death for him because of out everyone he deserved it. Namgyu (124) I really hated the way that he bullied Minsu from the start and how he killed Semi. Side note: Minsu reaching out for Semi's hand as he fell to his death in Sky Squid Game broke me. And finally, probably the only other contestant who was a bigger piece of shit than 100, was Myunggi (333). Like I kept waiting for this guy's redemption arc from his introduction in S2. But Junhee was smart not to trust him. I thought he was going to redeem himself and then he killed my Hyunju and it was all down hill from there. I can't believe that Gihun a stranger to his baby, cared more about his child than he did. It was disgusting that he was planning to kill the baby in the final game.

Overall, I dont think I'll ever rewatch this show now that its ended. I would've prefered an alternate ending where 456 and the baby both made it out alive. The games could've continued in America since The US are making their own squid game series but it could've been brought down in Korea with the help of 456 and Junho. What a disappointing ending. I'll forever be angry about this. 456 deserved better and we, the fans deserved a better ending.

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A Perfectly Executed Finale – Brutal, Emotional, Unforgettable

I just binged all of Squid Game Season 3 in one sitting—and what a ride! This final chapter was everything I hoped for and more. The story picks up right where Season 2 left off, plunging us straight into the chaos of a failed rebellion, betrayal, and loss. The pacing is relentless, the tension never lets up, and yet it still finds space to explore the emotional aftermath of everything Gi Hun has endured.

Lee Jung Jae delivers his most powerful performance yet. Watching Gi Hun hit rock bottom, only to be forced back into the nightmare of the Games, was heartbreaking and raw. Each game this season felt even more brutal—not just physically, but psychologically. The moral dilemmas hit hard, and the consequences of each choice left me shaken.

The return of the Frontman (In Ho) added a chilling, calculated energy to the season, and the dynamic with his brother Jun Ho raised the stakes even further. Their storyline had me on edge the whole time, especially with the ever-present question of who can really be trusted. The reveal of the traitor? Absolutely jaw-dropping.

The writing was tight, the twists hit hard, and the ending? Bittersweet perfection. It was a grim yet fitting close to a series that never shied away from exposing the darkest corners of human nature.

If you’ve followed Squid Game from the beginning, Season 3 is the brutal, emotional payoff you’ve been waiting for. A masterclass in storytelling that left me breathless.

Highly recommended.

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