Squid Game Season 3

Really disappointing, same flaws as the previous season

This season suffer exactly the same flaws that season 2 had with lack of emotional investment in the story and the characters. This season and the previous one is much more action filled and has more focus on that. I also feel like it was not necessary to have 3 seasons they could have easily combined this season into season 2.

Same as the previous season, I lacked emotional investment. The only character that I actually felt invested in got killed off very early, which just made me less interested in watching the rest since I didn't really root for anyone. Also I just started caring less and less about Gi-Hun unfortunately. He didn't feel like that strong of a character anymore and my investment in him just disappeared compared to season 1.

I'm also disappointed that pretty much any character that had some sort of story to them died off early. Like in the last games I could not care anymore who died because most of the characters left were very one-dimensional.

I remember watching season 1 and feeling dread watching specific games knowing that some of the characters that I got invested in would die. The characters also had much more dynamics and connections between them compared to this season. And the characters that actually did have some connection between them in this season were just gotten rid of very quickly.

Just like in the previous seasons I did enjoy the actual games. They are creative and still suspensful to watch. So I can't complain much about the actual games. Although, I would have probably been even more invested in the games if I actually had more of an emotional attachment to the characters. There were some moments that were more suspenseful and emotional, but it was still lacking unfortunately. Like I can't compare it to season 1.

Also the whole plotline with the detective and the boat is just way too dragged out. I found it so uninteresting during the previous season because nothing really happened with it. And now it is still just too slow paced. I'm sad that the detective didn't get to have more of an interesting arc in this season compared to the first one. He literally got no progress in his story or even a conclusion.

I also feel disappointed with how the front-man was handled. The whole thing that he was part of the games in the previous season felt kinda like it was forgotten. Nothing really happened with it. And we also didn't really get any more information or depth about his character. They showed that he was part of the games once, which is not new information! We knew this from season 1! It would have been more interesting if they actually explored him a bit more like how exactly he got his position, has he hosted many games before, how much control does he actually have and so on.

I have to say am I disappointed in the ending. It didn't feel satisfying at all and did not really contribute more to an overall story. The ending was similar to the first season. We had a winner and people made sacrifices to get there. And the whole thing with that the Squid Games actually is a thing in the US now just feels like a bad hook to milk this franchise even more.

Also the VIP:s moments didn't really add anything new as well. Like we knew how they were from season 1 and they are still the same. Also terrible acting and they felt so out of place.

I still have to give credit to the very good production and acting (except for the VIP:s of course), just like the previous seasons had. I was a bit disappointed with the soundtrack in this season. It did not really stand out for me that much and I had higher expectations since I loved the soundtrack in season 1.

Overall, this season was disappointing, but I also expected it to be so I'm not surprised. Still, it was entertaining to watch, but I do kinda wish they just stopped after season 1.

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Bleak.

This season felt like they tried to add all the good things from season 1..some stuck, some not so much.
We're not given a reason as to why he chose to push himself and leave Junhee's baby (after promising her she'll take care of her baby???), when he could've asked to end the game then and there.
And. Why. Would. You. Kill. The. *Main*. Character.
Make it make sense.
This time, his kindness lead to his downfall, had he listened to Frontman, he could've escaped with the baby. (plus, since they were ambushed by the pink guards there was no mention of 001 by ANY of the main characters, must've been a plot gap ig)
Gi-hun's child not wanting to hear about him and having to learn about his death, for lack of a better word, was boring. No build-up. Nothing. Just – "here, he's dead".
Netflix tried to tie all the loose knots into one to go on about their day. Granted, even if it was an opportunity to introduce the viewers to an upcoming Squidgame USA, the execution doesn't do it justice.
Anticlimactic and somewhat predictable as opposed to the first season.
The only good thing was guard 011 escaping.
Many of the casting choices for those 2 seasons was mortally questionable at best and criminal at worst. The captain (Oh Dal-su), players 100 (Im Jeong-dae) and 246 (Park Gyeong-seok) – the latter even more considering he was made up to be a loving father. I'm sick to the stomach.
TL;DR: season 1 >>> season 2+3

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Humans 3

Yes, Season 1 could have been enough, but as we watched Seasons 2 and 3, the theme became increasingly extreme. I didn’t like Season 3 until the final episode, which truly hit me emotionally. There was a twist no one in the show saw coming, and at last, we get a conclusion to the Korean Squid Games.

There are some inconsistencies in certain scene, and oh, those unbearable VIPs, but also a few mostly useless side stories, so at one point I thought the story was going nowhere. Yet, the director managed to put the mosaic together in the end.

The highlight of the show is its moral theme: the worth of life, and the corruption of human nature in the face of desperation, greed, and violence. Season 1 exposed how crushing debt and hopelessness can push ordinary people to lose their morality. Season 2 raised the intensity and explored how trauma and greed further corrupt humanity, as people risk everything for material gain. The final season is the darkest, showing that by the end, there are no good or bad guys—only people pushed to their absolute breaking point.

And that is the final question we are all invited to ask ourselves: Humans are... ?
If you're reading this review before watching the show, try answering that question now—and then again afterward. See how your answer changes.

P.S. By the way, remember: Hodie mihi, cras tibi! — or in my own translation from Latin: what happened to the people in the show today might happen to people in real life tomorrow.

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OK.

Season 3 is coming to an end, with consistently polished visuals and new gameplay that's as captivating as it is addictive. The tension is there, but you can still feel that some momentum has been lost along the way. I admit that, despite the hype, this season left me quite confused.

The deaths follow one another in a dramatic, sometimes even excessive, manner. The baby, tossed around like a puppet, remains surprisingly stoic (too wise for what he's going through, poor thing...). Some characters we hoped would shine quickly disappear, victims of fates that aren't always fair.

I appreciated the behind-the-scenes look at these rich old Westerners who are as detestable as they are caricatures. Cliché, yes, but it works. This season is undeniably dark—not just in its aesthetic, but also in its responses. We're given bits and pieces to piece together, but the end result isn't quite what we'd hoped for.

I'm happy to be wrapping up this trilogy, but I'm still a little disappointed. Ultimately, I preferred season 2, which was richer in emotion and punctuated with welcome humor. Here, between grief and anger, the palette remains rather limited.

A must-see, yes—but not necessarily a must-see—for this third season.

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It Gets Worse

My 4 categories are Acting/Cast, Writing, Direction/SFX/Music, Entertainment Value.

Full disclosure: I am not a fan of Squid Game. I didn’t like the 1st season (I had given it a 4/10). This drama has felt, from the beginning, like a poorly executed version of deadly game plots (such as Hunger Games and 3%).

Acting/Cast: The cast is decent. A lot of big actors. However, this season, there’s not many characters left. Unfortunately, we end up stuck with a bunch of expendables and VIPs. Really? They think this will carry the drama to the finish line? The VIPs are the worst. Who, in the process of filming, watched these scenes back and said “Yeah, this is good”? I’m assuming it’s the director/screenwriter. I haven’t seen anything else he’s worked on and now I would never want to. 4/10

Writing: The writing is so bad, they tried to use the VIPs and the owner of the games to gaslight us into thinking it makes sense. Anytime something stupid, boring, and/or unrealistic was happening, one of those characters starts explaining why it’s not bad writing. Like when the insufferable voting system pops up again, they cut to a character saying something like “this is the most interesting part of the games.” What are you smoking?? This is literally the dumbest, most boring, dragged out waste of time in this whole series. I think they finally realized that and started cutting the voting short. It literally doesn’t matter and has no effect on anything, especially this season. Another example, is when the owner of the games would explain the psychology of the characters’ decision-making, in an attempt to convince the viewers that it makes sense. No, it still doesn’t make sense. None of this makes sense. At this point, everyone should either be completely out of their minds, begging for their life, or committing suicide. I mean, they are literally being tortured for days on end in a hopeless situation. They also use the idiotic VIP characters to give us a play-by-play on what’s happening in the games. It’s like having that annoying person that won’t shut the hell up sitting next to you in the theater. They break intense scenes with these stupid ones, completely ruining all of the buildup and tension. The dialogue writing for the VIPs is so terrible, along with the acting, that I felt like I was watching cut scenes from a video game, and not a good one. If AI really is writing scripts these days, I’d think that this is a good example of what that would look like. If I were to write this drama, I’d have the VIPs as silent observers that we see quick glimpses of here and there. Maybe they cheer sometimes, maybe they just give condescending golf claps, maybe they become involved in the direction of the games. I mean, anything but what the writers actually had them do. We don’t need them to have dialogue for us to know that they are psychotic; just them being there already proves that they are. The cop character, by the way, remains completely useless and dumb. He never does anything cool, so don’t hold your breath. Also, all of the players die in very predictable ways. I didn’t feel anything for any of them. Actually, the one character that we’re ultimately supposed to feel something for is a freaking CGI baby. 1/10

Direction/SFX/Music: The CGI baby is the worst. I can’t feel emotion for that thing. The CGI dog was terrible as well. Can we please either get a bigger budget for trained animals or real looking effects or just write this stuff out of the story all together. The bad CGI just ruins it. 1/10

Entertainment Value: Definitely the least entertaining of the seasons by far. I still got through it pretty quick, though, in hope that something cool would happen at the end. Like maybe seeing the VIPs get murdered or thrown into the games themselves. That would be fun. Or the cop character saving some people in the games. Nothing cool happens though. This drama is a tragedy. I’m not a fan of tragedies. 2.5/10

Overall, I gave this season a 2/10. It lost whatever charm it originally had and basically became a slasher. It’s not about using skill to win games anymore, but about murdering people in hand-to-hand combat. So boring, so uncreative. Everything is predictable and nothing cool happens. I would be surprised if it was proven that AI wasn’t used to write this trash.

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90% of yall are missing the message, ESPECIALLY here in MDL

everyone is complaining because it was anunderwhelming season but it was a continuation of s2. Hyun ju died "early" bcs in the games it was not a matter of the strongest, the smartest, or the most deserving of the prize gets to win. Death did not pick who should die at what order, death chose all. So the complaints of "its unfair that the good players died early" just proves the unfair nature of the games and society. The show was not supposed to end with the villains dead and hero won. There was no villain, a common misconception of the VIPS and the frontman being villains is absolutely wrong. When we were watching the show, we were all picking and choosing favorites who we wanted to survive, we wanted the "annoying characters like 100, and 044" to die...the front man was NOT a villain. Everyone was each others villain, grief, pride, greed, and hope those were also villains. I would say hope was most deceiving of all because it kept people going in this hideous games hoping that they will win. The more the games progressed, the "worse" the characters became, with more greed and hunger, how were yall expecting a character development??...456's death was definitely sad but he and no euls character showed humanity, they both had choices that would bring them fortunes and wealth if they chose to see the decaying humanity, instead they both chose to believe in the fragile humanity. The show ended perfectly, the show was potraying a message. A message of what humanity is, therefore gihun's "Humans are..." short speech. Yall were expecting a grandiose cartoon black and white ending.

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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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THE BEST SERIES FINALE EVER!

OH MY GOD , LET ME TAKE A MOMENT TO PROCESS WHAT A TERRIFIC FINALE THIS WAS !
This really said it out loud that greed has no limits , blood isnt thicker than your selfishness . good lord let me just declare gi hun as a gord bcs that man was a saint , won the game till the last moment but didnt let the greed take him over , man he really didnt deserve that suffering from the beginning.

next with jun hee my poor girl , i was sobbing when i realised that bone fracuture was what took her out , she could have actually made it out.

this finale just crossed my expectations and im rooting for it to go block buster hit just like s1 , the ending was unexpected i thought gi hun would survive but damn they just gave us a tearjerk.

RECOMMENDED!!!

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"Do you still have faith in people?"

Squid Game Season 3 ended with a bang. Everyone came to understand the value of life and our shared humanity. The VIPs and creators of the game were inspired by the self-sacrifice of characters to use their endless piles of money to benefit those who need it most and the planet as well. The players voted to end the games and sat in a circle singing Kumbaya. Yeah, no. For the most part Squid Game continued the rant that human beings tend to be greedy, desperate, selfish rat bastards. While not perfect, I thought the show’s creators brought the drama to a fitting end. As billionaires in the real world flaunt their wealth and buy their way out of trouble, the drama felt even more timely in its last installment.

After last season’s failed coup, Gi Hun is carrying around a pink ribboned coffin load of guilt. The games continue with the same high stakes and gruesome outcomes. Loyalties are forged and tested and a pivotal new competitor is added.

This season saw more of the VIPs, a weakness in my opinion. The English speaking actors were dreadful. Their dialogue was stilted and the lines were beyond cheesy. “It’s like watching one of those family reality shows.” Apparently, gazillionaires never bathe, can’t afford decent haircuts, and don’t own a razor. Sometimes less is more, and I preferred the anonymity of the VIPs.

There were new games that often telegraphed which contestants were going to be the upcoming victims. The problem with three seasons based on the same premise meant there was a lot of repetition. The two “heroes” could still be terribly dense, missing clues dangled in their faces.

Aside from the greedy and treacherous, there were also people good at heart who became caught in the net of the game. For them, it came down to how they died, not when. What lines were they not willing to cross? If a person had to indiscriminately murder other people, could they live with themselves, even if they survived? “Bad people do bad things but they blame others and go on to live in peace. Good people on the other hand, beat themselves up about the smallest things.”

Would the rich really attend and sponsor such amoral games? Sure. Too many people who have money or power do not look at people “beneath them” as truly human or even remotely significant. Here in my country, a politician held a town hall recently. When someone brought up that the medical care the government wanted to cut would cost people their lives, she replied, “We are all going to die.” She has plenty of food, exceptional shelter, and the best health care available. What did it matter to her if the poor died because they did not have access to any of those basic needs. That people are greedy and often desperate and will kill each other over money is hardly something new. But the class of people pushing them further to the edge of despair have rarely been bolder and less accountable, something Squid Game nailed right on the nose.



27 June 2025
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How on earth did they get freakin’ Oscar winning Cate Blanchett, Galadriel herself, to do a cameo?!❤

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This is why I don't like kdramas with multiple seasons

As you can clearly see from my review, I didn't like the season.
Let's start with what I liked first
1) Acting - People have put their souls into acting. The entire cast has done an amazing job. The lead actor, I would say didn't shine as much as he did in the first season but overall, he has still acted quite well.

2) Direction - I know a lot of people even had problems with the direction of this but I beg to differ. I found the direction quite alright and easy on the eyes.

My biggest is issue was with SCREENWRITING. How did they take a great drama and manage to make it boring?? I had troubles even with pacing. This is a spoiler free review so I wouldn't describe the scenes that I felt were completely unnecessary but there were unfortunately many scenes like that.
The law enforcement office's character being reduced to dust though, takes the cake for some of the worst character arcs I have seen in kdramas.

Disappointing to say the least. I will just pretend that it ended after season 1

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A Disappointing Ending to a Great Show

I was really excited for this to drop, only to be left feeling empty as the credits played. All this season has to offer us story-wise is the same things told to us in the first season, just leagues worse.

The ‘confrontation’ between Gi-hun and In-ho was so disappointing. It was hyped up as this grand thing and lasted five minutes in a quick, rushed manner. And I don’t get having In-ho as one of the main characters in season 2 just for him to go right back to being a side character glazing the VIPs in season 3. I liked the message it tried to bring forward, but the execution of it was poor.

Jun-ho was so useless he may as well have just stayed dead. 13 episodes and all he manages to do is call the coast guard and scream “Why?,” once again at In-ho. Woo-seok managed to be more useful than him.

The final game was filled with dumb decisions that made absolutely no sense. What was the point in bringing Min-su to the final game just for him to die immediately? Myung-gi decided to charge at the other men when they had already made a compromise that would’ve guaranteed that he make it to the final round and live. Genuinely what was the point in fighting when someone had already been pushed off. Yim Si-wan was incredible though. The button was so obviously just a means to get Gi-hun to sacrifice himself for the baby.

Oh, and don’t get me started on the baby. First of all, how the hell did it survive??? It was born prematurely in a bloody death arena, also birthed by a malnourished woman, but happened to come out just fine. The logic with it made absolutely zero sense. I actually enjoyed the message of it, but when it comes to realism, it really lost me.

A lot of people have commented on Gi-hun’s confusing morals, and I get it to an extent, but I also liked it. After the rebellion, he had no reason to live, but used Dae-ho as a scapegoat so he wouldn’t blame himself. He ends up killing him and regrets it immediately. Once Jun-hee’s baby is placed in his hands, he finds a new reason to keep going. He’s given a knife and is told to kill the finalists to ensure he and the baby’s survival. He can’t bring himself to do it because Sae-byeok appears and reminds him he isn’t that kind of person. That and In-ho’s flashback were my favorite scenes of the season. I get the confusion from people, because he had no idea what the next game was and was just playing with fire, but his tears felt raw and real and you could feel that he didn’t want to resort to what In-ho was. It wasn’t as bad to me as others, but it was still a bit confusing. Also, how did he not find it in him to kill In-ho, the one he had been hunting down for YEARS. That was the part I was lost on.

Lee Jung-jae’s acting was good, but at times I couldn’t help but feel that his character was almost on the sidelines? It felt like he had a few lines just every once a while instead of being a main. I get that the point was that he was almost catatonic and didn’t have anyone, but they really could’ve given him at least a bit more to work with. I feel bad knowing he lost 20 pounds for the role just to barely do anything. Jump rope was his standout moment because you could actually see the terror there. All he really said in Hide and Seek was: “It’s your fault.” Speaking of, I really wish they did more with Dae-ho then just resorting him to something to propel Gi-hun’s arc. It was clear he had some sort of trauma, but was just made out to be a coward with no real story. Kang Ha-neul acted him out amazingly though with how little he was given.

Once Hyun-ju died in Hide and Seek, I realized that was where we were going with this. She deserved to be a finalist instead of Min-su. Geum-ja was also a standout, Kang Ae-shim did her thing with this role. Her speech to Gi-hun was really sad and so was her death.

No-eul’s storyline was good and I think it was a nice addition, she was a standout here. I found no interest in Gyeong-seok, the father of the sick girl.

The scene with Gi-hun’s daughter was heartbreaking, In-ho’s horrible. Also the final scene with Cate Blanchett was kind of off-putting, but I didn’t hate it.

In conclusion, Squid Game really should’ve stayed one season. You can tell this is just Netflix milking a popular series for profit, which is pretty ironic considering the message of the series. Despite this, I’m still glad this brought back my love for Squid Game and gave us new characters and more great scenes. #justiceforseonggihun

Favorite Episode: The Starry Night (S3E2)
Standout Performances: Lee Jung-jae, Kang Ha-neul, Park Sung-hoon, Kang Ae-shim, Park Gyu-young, Yim Si-wan

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