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I don’t understand the hate Squid Game Season 3 has been getting . And I say that as someone who’s been invested in this series from day one. From the very first episode of Season 1, the show never promised comfort. It promised rawness, reflection, and a disturbing mirror held up to society. Season 3 delivered exactly that with its most brutal and philosophically profound arc yet.Yes, the ending was shocking and ehhh. A baby winning the games? Gi-hun dying after everything he went through? I get it, it's jarring. But isn't that exactly the point? Squid Game has always been about subverting expectations, exposing the ugliest parts of human nature, and forcing us to sit in discomfort. If this ending made you mad, maybe it’s because it hit too close to home. The outrage seems centered around the absurdity of a baby "winning" but I think that’s symbolic genius. A child, INNOCENT and UNTAINTED by the grotesque logic of the game, surviving when the rest tear each other apart. It's the ultimate commentary on innocence being the only thing that doesn’t voluntarily dive into the madness. Everyone else, including our beloved Gi-hun, made choices. Strategic, desperate, moral or immoral. The baby didn’t. And that’s exactly why it deserved to "win."

Gi-hun’s death was tragic, but also narratively fitting. His arc was never about triumph. It was about transformation, resistance, and, ultimately, sacrifice. He died trying to dismantle the system from within and in doing so, he reminded us that even within a hellish game designed to strip people of their humanity, there are still those who will fight for what’s right, even if it costs everything.Yes, I did wish that Gi-hun had survived. Along with some of my favorite characters: Player 120 , Player 222 , and player 149. Watching them die one by one was devastating. I bawled my eyes out beginning with episode 2 and it did not stop. I held out hope that at least one of them would walk away. But Squid Game doesn’t trade in hope, it trades in harsh truths. And the harshest one of all is that sometimes, no matter how much heart, courage, or wit a person has it is never enough.

And then there's Jun-ho. My god! this season, absolutely useless. The most useless he’s ever been, honestly. I get the frustration; we were all expecting to him catch on earlier that the captain Park isn't to betrusted and that he and his team would make it to the island and take everyone out . But instead, he was clueless, never suspect it and it led to the death of his team. And as frustrating as that was to watch... I still think that worked. Because his arc, or lack thereof, speaks to something uncomfortable, that not everyone gets to be the hero. Sometimes, the villains win. Sometimes, even good people don’t make a difference. Sometimes, the fight doesn’t end in victory but just in exhaustion. It’s maddening, yes. But again brutally honest.

What I loved most about this season was how it circled back to the original philosophical heart of Squid Game: that humans, like horses, are driven, broken, trained. That the elites, those with grotesque wealth and power will watch, bet, and cheer as we destroy one another for survival. The show never glamorized violence. It exposed it, contextualized it, made us question why we accept it.Season 3 was brutal, sure. But it was also bold, introspective, and incredibly human. It didn’t pander to fan expectations. it dared to say something. And in the era of safe storytelling, that deserves praise, not hate. So no, I don’t agree with the backlash. I thoroughly enjoyed this season. It made me think, made me uncomfortable, and made me grieve. That’s Squid Game at its finest.