08-25-2025, 11:39 PM
Seen
S3 is conclusive. There’s some fine skewering satire of greed (capitalism) and democracy (so many votes) which is surely more poignant in S. Korea as here in the US, we e voted away our democracy. The set pieces and overall design is excellent, but what a sanguineous story where almost everybody dies. That’s been a key ingredient in the Squid Games recipe - cook up a cast of characters that you love and hate and kill them brutally one by one. The level of preposterousness is off the charts, but the drama of it all is what sustains it. Almost all the player deaths come with a moving or reprehensible back story which makes you feel each death viscerally.
The final ep is almost all epilogue, concluding notes on those few survivors.
And then there’s that final scene - an A-lister cameo that leaves the door cracked open for a reboot. That eta cameo - what a flex! If it happens, I’m all in.
Only D00M recommended if you liked s1. S2 & 3 are really just one story - one game series - slot in half for Netflix to milk it more. There’s a bit of fat in S23 that could be trimmed, but ultimately it arrives at a satisfactory conclusion.
S3 is conclusive. There’s some fine skewering satire of greed (capitalism) and democracy (so many votes) which is surely more poignant in S. Korea as here in the US, we e voted away our democracy. The set pieces and overall design is excellent, but what a sanguineous story where almost everybody dies. That’s been a key ingredient in the Squid Games recipe - cook up a cast of characters that you love and hate and kill them brutally one by one. The level of preposterousness is off the charts, but the drama of it all is what sustains it. Almost all the player deaths come with a moving or reprehensible back story which makes you feel each death viscerally.
The final ep is almost all epilogue, concluding notes on those few survivors.
And then there’s that final scene - an A-lister cameo that leaves the door cracked open for a reboot. That eta cameo - what a flex! If it happens, I’m all in.
Only D00M recommended if you liked s1. S2 & 3 are really just one story - one game series - slot in half for Netflix to milk it more. There’s a bit of fat in S23 that could be trimmed, but ultimately it arrives at a satisfactory conclusion.
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