If you're in it purely for the brutal spectacle, Squid Game Season 3 still delivers. The series offers a fresh set of deadly games designed to shock and entertain and undeniably with clever mechanics and emotional stakes in tow. But by now, it's clear that Squid Game was never just about the games and it was about the people caught in them and the other people that put them there. Unfortunately, this latest season is a major misstep in that regard. As the supposed conclusion, Squid Game Season 3 is both narratively unsatisfying and thematically empty, undoing much of what the series crafted in its first season.
Following the failed coup to stop the games, Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) is left a broken man. But the games must go on now with even deadlier mechanics and stakes. The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) returns to oversee the operations welcoming a new wave of VIPs while his brother Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon) continues his search to expose and end the games for good.
Despite what seems like a promising setup, the season struggles to make any of its developments feel meaningful. Gi-hun’s return ultimately feels like a wasted and even unnecessary endeavor. His journey neither provides emotional closure nor serves a greater purpose in the overall arc we expected the series will go into. Likewise, characters across the board, from the Front Man to even the minor players, feel stagnant or poorly developed. Rather than pushing characters forward, this season regresses many of them into dead ends providing more avenues for questions than answers or closures.
While Season 2 had its flaws, it at least delivered a major twist with the Front Man joining the games. Season 3, on the other hand, leans too heavily on the spectacle of the games themselves without providing anything ground-breaking this time around. Luckily, all the games were fun and injected some much-needed drama and emotions when we needed them the most. The expanded roles of the VIPs sadly falls flat. While they’ve always symbolized the dehumanizing system behind the games, giving them more screen time here feels like a mistake as their portrayal borders on cartoonish and unnecessary.
Ultimately, Squid Game Season 3 feels like a finale in name only. It fails to deliver the emotional or thematic resolution fans were hoping for and instead leaves behind a hollow and frustrating experience. The writing has taken a steep decline, and the result is a season that not only fails to justify its own existence but also tarnishes the legacy of what came before.
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Squid Game Season 3 Series Review: Fun But Pointless
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