Review of Squid Game Season 3: Story – Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) made the decision to reenter the game and put an end to it in the final season. We watched him gradually start a revolt that resulted in a few players joining him and launching an assault against the establishment by going rogue. The third season begins just after their revolt has failed, and everyone who supported Gi-hun is murdered with the exception of him. After seeing his friend and the other players being killed, he is brought back to the hall, where he is completely lifeless. However, will that put an end to the games? The dance of death resumes when players cast their votes to carry on. Gi-hun keeps playing with lost hope, but he finds it in a fresh player as we go along, raising the stakes of this game significantly. Will he be successful in rescuing the new player? Will this circus of death come to an end?

Review of Season 3 of Squid Game:

The world of franchise projects and IPs is, for the lack of a better word, a gamble that is more likely to result in a loss than a gain (at least at this point in time). Someone in the studio is likely not to doubt the slowly apparent gaps because something functions and is pushed beyond its elasticity into a trampoline. As a result of something we loved the first time around, we now have subpar movies and series. However, is it necessary for everything to expand simply because it was initially successful? When Squid Game 2 arrived, the majority of us likely shared this sentiment, and as the season wore on, it became a snooze fest with little happening either inside or outside of the show, so the majority of that enthusiasm chose the exit door. Therefore, how far may a third season go when it attempts to build on that foundation?

The third season of Squid Game, which Hwang Dong-hyuk once more wrote, produced, and directed, acknowledges that the series has alienated some of its audience with its previous season and has thus brought them back. As a result, there is an evident attempt to reintroduce the three-dimensional narrative with well-defined characters. The desire to regain the trust of an audience that has believed that is evident enough. The story this time is not monotonous; rather, it extends throughout a map that, at first glance, seems profitable. However, the base is insufficient to support it, but more on that later. With tension and surprises throughout, season three is in a terrific position, and one would have hoped that the second season would have been as fantastic if it had been handled well.

Give credit where it's due; the manner in which the VIPs have been portrayed this time is incredibly captivating and emotionally moving. The concept of the program is to create a small capsule of the globe in which the wealthy laugh and benefit at the expense of disadvantaged and impoverished individuals by presenting them with a block of cheese that is connected to their own bodies. Their life and the world are at risk, but all that matters is amusement. These VIPs are introduced in season three, along with their stupidity and ruthlessness. Even when the player is not yet in a position to comprehend consent, much less practise it, they do not think twice about coming as a player.

Additionally fascinating is how Gi-hun's goal has shifted to ensuring the new player's safety as he guides her forward and keeps his promise by protecting her at all costs. But, as in the second season, the script never permits the friendships to develop. Player 222, who is at risk, is already an easy target that elicits emotion, but Gi-hun should have had some screen time to establish his bond with her in order for him to put his life on the line for her.

The characters from Season 2 are so underdeveloped that their deaths don't evoke much emotion other than how horrific they were. It's true that a few eventually develop somewhat defined character arcs, but this doesn't alter the fact that it's too late for them. When this starts to occur, we are actually in the final few episodes..

Outside of this captivation's confines, two parallel storylines are also unfolding, which are fascinating to observe. However, they are packaged so quickly that it all ends up in vain. Because it totally contradicts every theory we've read on Reddit up until this point, the conclusion is undoubtedly a shocker, but is it enough? A man's change of heart after uttering something during his death is not a desirable plot device in a series about a cruel institution. The most ruthless among them undergoes the shift in attitude.

It feels like a missed opportunity because, even though a well-known American actor makes a cameo appearance, hinting that the tale goes on, we never get to the root cause of any of it. There wasn't even a hint about the unveiling we were anticipating. The end of the Korean chapter of this game is signaled by a black vehicle driving off into the sunset, suggesting the future being created at Netflix. Is this what we really want to keep doing? Is it possible for it to revert to its original state? Only time will tell.

The Last Word on Season 3 of Squid Game

The issue is the lack of world-building in season two, which taints even the value in the third season, not season three. Although there are surprises, blood, and teases about the future, this is insufficient to establish a show with a devoted following worldwide. A sad farewell.

Netflix is currently streaming Squid Game Season 3.