Squid Game Season 3

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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Another good season

Well just finished watching 3rd season and it was great and also emotional we lost more fav characters but it has been a great series, however, the main thing that's not good is the VIP's speaking English, felt more like they read that off a script or had a script in hand and Gi Hun's own sacrifice to keep the baby alive was hard to watch but honestly a great series but just wished Detective Hwang had knew about Park Yeong Il right from second season then he could've saved Gi Hun and the others before the final game. Now at the very end I saw Cate Blanchett or however you spell her name and we do not need an American version or at least hope there is no American version as the Korean one is way more emotional especially when it came to our favourite characters and that Scene with Saek Byeok in got me. :(

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I had low expectation and this S3 still felt like a let down...

Did the world need a sequel of Squid Game ? Since the ending of S1, I have been adamant that it was unecessary and I definitely maintain my opinion after watching the conclusion of this series with the disappointing Season 3. In terms of writing, the script definitely a less strong point of view than S1, I feel that a lot of the "life lessons" from the original show were lost. The surprise effect was not there and even if there were a lot of impactful scenes, I felt that most of the characters made irrational decisions more for "the gag" of it all than driven by proper scenario build up.

In terms of characters storylines, if the police officer was the most useless one, it was the "hero" journey that disappointed me the most. I did not feel the character growth and I was pretty underwhelmed by Lee Jung Jae's acting in this season 3. It felt very one note. To be fair, it is probably more due to the poor writing, preventing the actor to demonstrate any range of acting because the lack of room for growth with his character... Next to him, the other main cast did a solid job, especially Yim Si Wan, whose character's storyline was definitely the most interesting of this season and whose acting deeply impressed me.

The main positive of this season resides in its strong production value and overall visual. The layering of the child games and the bloody murders are as striking as ever with deaths litteraly wrapped in black boxes with pretty pink bows. I was amazed at all the details in the decors and the way some of the games were featured.

Despite all its flaws in writing, I would still recommend this to people that have watched season 2. If you have just seen Season 1, better stop there as it can live perfectly well as a standalone...However, if you have watched season 2, it is kinda a must to watch season 3 as those two are immediately connected and probably splitted in two for commercial reasons rather than anything else.

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My Thoughts on the third and finale season

First of all, why does it have to come out at 3 am in the US and certain people stay up just to watch it (a.k.a. me) and get to the second ep and start balling without any sleep. Second of all why did all of the best characters die like, Player 456, Player 222, Player 120, etc. But I loved that they came up with the idea of the baby winning, but everyone could have just stopped the game before game #5. Or just stopped the game during the first season it makes no sense to keep going for 2 more seasons just to kill of main characters. Then making an American spin-off, I just know it’s going to be bad only because nothing can come close to the original South Korean Squid Game series.

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Centered on two characters

Many people say that the ending was terrible, but for me, it was the best possible conclusion the writers could have given. The whole series showed just how far people are willing to go when enormous amounts of money are at stake.

The two characters I especially want to highlight, whose final confrontation happened at the very end, were Seong Gi-hun and Lee Myung-gi. They were complete opposites, representing entirely different attitudes toward the situation. Seong Gi-hun was deeply moral, and with his famous line “We’re not horses, we’re people”, he expressed his defiance. By refusing to continue the game, he stood against the creators and their degrading, manipulative treatment of desperate people.

On the other hand, Myung-gi’s character embodied the complete dehumanization of man — a total lack of empathy, morality, or humanity.

These two characters created an incredible contrast, which, in my opinion, was the very essence of the entire series.

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First two seasons were better

I had high expectations for this season but meanwhile watching it , it felt completely different.
- the games great but it was kinda boring sometimes, the first and second seasons’s games captivated more my attention.
- most of characters didn’t deserve to die but I was ready for it..( i guess we all knew)
- i definitely didn’t like vips scenes .! the scenes was annoying and in my opinion their presence wasn’t necessary.
- I hate when they decided to put the baby also in the game, like what did I see? the audacity….i preferred the baby not being in this.
- I hate so much player 333 in this season .. he didn’t even try to save jun hui.. + his behavior..and he also tried to kill his baby what kind of father is this? definitely horrible.. I thought he could be a better person in this season but he was kinda selfish.
- the ending was kinda good but at the same time not.. I didn’t like the fact that there wasn’t a scene between the two brothers , like, the police officer was searching for the island since a lot and after he did it , all we get was a scene of 2 min of him saying to his brother “why did you do that?”… I was expecting more.
- i felt sorry when player 456 was dead :/🥲
-I also wanted to see if 011 found her daughter or not since she went in China, I was curious about that but nothing. also I thought she would’ve said to player 246 that he saved him ( I WAS SO HAPPY WHEN I SAW HE WAS ALIVEEEEE.. this was basically one of the few things I liked 😭🫠)
- I’m glad the police officer now has the 222’s baby , I’m pretty sure he’ll be good with her .. she’s going to grow well.

Actually the story wasn’t good as the first two seasons but I didn’t like that we didn’t get a proper ending for some things since this series is keep going since 2021.

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