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Did we really need this season? No.
Was it interesting? To some extent.
Was I on edge the entire time? Absolutely.
They left Borderland behind, but Borderland didn’t leave them.
Some time has passed since the last deadly games — the ones that left scars, even if invisible. Few survived. But no one remembers. Or at least that’s how it seems. Except for a few… who feel something. Fragments. Not memories, but echoes. Shadows of a reality that shouldn’t exist.
In the very first minutes, aside from the familiar faces of Arisu and Usagi, you immediately feel the absence of the other characters. And I found myself wondering: where are they? What happened to them? But the questions don’t stop there.
In the first episode, we see something even stranger: one of the players who chose to stay in Borderland suddenly appears in the real world and hands out a joker card to selected people, inviting them back to Borderland. And — even more confusing — a game begins. A game just like the ones in the borderland.
And I was like: Wait a second… what is happening? Are we even in the real world? Or is this some distorted version of it? I was a geyser of questions.
I understand why Arisu joins the deadly games again — he wants to save Usagi — but I don’t understand why anyone else would willingly go back. Usagi is still suffering because of her father, okay, but how would returning to a place she barely survived help her? And that professor? Besides being obsessed with the afterlife, his motives were unclear the entire time, which only added more tension.
Now, about the games themselves. Oh… the moment Arisu returned to Borderland and the first game started, I felt like he was about to stand up and say, “I’ve played these games before.” (If you know, you know.)😂
This time the games were more psychological — less action, none of the brutal, visually striking challenges from previous seasons, and more moral dilemmas. They don’t just make you wonder how to survive; they force you to confront what you’re willing to sacrifice to do so. And the choices the players made seemed to shape their own futures. It was interesting, but they didn’t show anything new that I hadn’t already seen in earlier seasons.
And then we get to the finale. I’m watching — everything seems to be falling into place. I’m watching — there are still 15 minutes left. And I start panicking that there won’t be a happy ending, thinking, please don’t ruin this. Thank God — there was a happy ending.
The problem is, the feeling that nothing is truly over still lingers. We finally saw the old characters I was so annoyed about — the ones who had completely vanished. They appeared… but only in the last minutes of the final episode. It seems each of them found their own path and didn’t need more drama — and this season was focused on Arisu anyway. Still, I wanted more from them. Even so, the introduction of the new characters was pleasant and brought some freshness.
Overall, I was left confused by how it ended. They hinted at something even bigger coming, but I’m not sure the series has anything new left to offer.
And this connection to the US… no. Just no. Not everything needs to be blended with an American style. No, thank you.
Was it interesting? To some extent.
Was I on edge the entire time? Absolutely.
They left Borderland behind, but Borderland didn’t leave them.
Some time has passed since the last deadly games — the ones that left scars, even if invisible. Few survived. But no one remembers. Or at least that’s how it seems. Except for a few… who feel something. Fragments. Not memories, but echoes. Shadows of a reality that shouldn’t exist.
In the very first minutes, aside from the familiar faces of Arisu and Usagi, you immediately feel the absence of the other characters. And I found myself wondering: where are they? What happened to them? But the questions don’t stop there.
In the first episode, we see something even stranger: one of the players who chose to stay in Borderland suddenly appears in the real world and hands out a joker card to selected people, inviting them back to Borderland. And — even more confusing — a game begins. A game just like the ones in the borderland.
And I was like: Wait a second… what is happening? Are we even in the real world? Or is this some distorted version of it? I was a geyser of questions.
I understand why Arisu joins the deadly games again — he wants to save Usagi — but I don’t understand why anyone else would willingly go back. Usagi is still suffering because of her father, okay, but how would returning to a place she barely survived help her? And that professor? Besides being obsessed with the afterlife, his motives were unclear the entire time, which only added more tension.
Now, about the games themselves. Oh… the moment Arisu returned to Borderland and the first game started, I felt like he was about to stand up and say, “I’ve played these games before.” (If you know, you know.)😂
This time the games were more psychological — less action, none of the brutal, visually striking challenges from previous seasons, and more moral dilemmas. They don’t just make you wonder how to survive; they force you to confront what you’re willing to sacrifice to do so. And the choices the players made seemed to shape their own futures. It was interesting, but they didn’t show anything new that I hadn’t already seen in earlier seasons.
And then we get to the finale. I’m watching — everything seems to be falling into place. I’m watching — there are still 15 minutes left. And I start panicking that there won’t be a happy ending, thinking, please don’t ruin this. Thank God — there was a happy ending.
The problem is, the feeling that nothing is truly over still lingers. We finally saw the old characters I was so annoyed about — the ones who had completely vanished. They appeared… but only in the last minutes of the final episode. It seems each of them found their own path and didn’t need more drama — and this season was focused on Arisu anyway. Still, I wanted more from them. Even so, the introduction of the new characters was pleasant and brought some freshness.
Overall, I was left confused by how it ended. They hinted at something even bigger coming, but I’m not sure the series has anything new left to offer.
And this connection to the US… no. Just no. Not everything needs to be blended with an American style. No, thank you.
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