The Netflix Hit Comes To An Underwhelming Conclusion

“Squid Game” is an inevitable and slightly underestimated conclusion with season 3, which consists of episodes that should really be kept “season 2.0” as a whole new batch. The Netflix megahit from South Korea became a cultural phenomenon after it arrived for the first time, probably because so many of us can join the themes of the series that are desperate to get a debt under the crushing of capitalism. As the season 1 built a world of hell, where cash-diversified competitors competed to survive on deadly children’s games for a great prize, seasons 2 and now 3 has a uber-kiis, an extra unpleasant attitude that is perhaps the final theme of the exhibition all the time.

I don’t even disagree with that assessment: people are Often horrible! But “Kalmarpeli” takes us through three violent seasons and ends in a way that seems to say a little more than “everything sucks, what else did you expect?” It feels a little disappointing. But maybe it was the only logical terminal that the show could use (Until Netflix launches American spin-off with David Fincher working behind the scenes).

In the season 2 (Read the review here)), The winner of the “Squid Game” season Gi (Lee Jung-Jae) returned to games he had already won for two reasons. First of all, he wanted to bring the games down inside. And secondly, he wanted to prove to a mysterious, camouflaged frontman (Lee Byung-to), who drives the exhibition that people were ultimately good, despite all his mistakes. Even after the games had once played, Gih was staunch when they believe that people always do the right thing. He was in rude awakening.

Indeed, season 2 and most of the season 3 is dedicated to misplaced GI-Hun’s hypothesis. In the first season, there were bad players, but the seasons 2 and 3 have just added this concept tenfold with some really terrible people who are ready to leak a lot of blood if it means they win a huge cash prize. Yes, Gihhu also met with good people, such as Trans-JU (Park Sung-Hoon), pregnant Jun-Hee (Jo Yuri) and the mother-in-law team Geum-and (Kang Ae-SIM) and Yong-Sik (Yang Dong-Geun). But most of the new players sometimes seem to be downright psychotic, and Gi into the Gi, literally, finds his natural faith in the goodness of people tested at every turn.

Season 2 ended with Gi’s inspiration for some of his colleagues against the guards about his colleagues leading to the exhibition. Unfortunately, Gi did not realize his new best friend, the player 001, was a secretly disguised foreleg. During the season, the violent end, many players were killed and the rebellion set with serious consequences. Season 3 will pick up immediately (in fact, it actually returns a few minutes to offer us a new context already seen).

Once again, the surviving players vote to stay in the game – not because it makes any sense, but because the show ends if they made an intelligent decision and voted to get to hell. Gih is now a broken man who is distressing his failures, and new deadly games showcase himself (my personal favorite is a completely nervous jumping rope played on two giant robot statues). Who will survive and what are they left?

At the same time, a shameful police officer Jun-Ho (Wi Ha-Joon), who just happens to be a long-missing brother of the foreleg, still sailing trying to find the island that games are kept on. This story seemed lifeless during season 2, and it still feels 3 – even though it eventually leads to something. A kind of. Because all the stories of the exhibition eventually wrapped one or another, you begin to get the idea that the series goes through the movements.

“Squid Game” creator/writer/director Hwang Dong-Hyuk has famously said he was not exactly the itching more “Kalmar’s game”, especially after the first season barely earned him money. But the first season turned out to be such a huge success that Netflix had no way to give the exhibition to go. And while hwang is not exactly by calling it, you can seem Working at work, as if the “squid game” sighed, saying, “We may over, right?”

These recent episodes have a wealth of impressive production design with exciting moments, and the final scene of the finals will surely make a lot of people talk (I know I’ve almost shouted on the screen). But when the “Squid Game” season 3 meant its last hour, I felt my interest slipping-and it really didn’t help that those Uber-shaped covered VIPs Return to the spott to a more horrifying dialogue. I have no doubt that Netflix is ​​trying to find new ways to keep the “Squid Game” brand going in one form or another, but so far it is time to give this need to be rested. Game over.

/Movie rating: 5/10

The “Squid Game” season 3 is now streaming on Netflix.