The Netflix Hit Comes To An Underwhelming Conclusion

“Squid Game” arrives at an inevitable and somewhat disappointing conclusion with season 3, made up of a group of episodes that should really be considered “season 2.0” rather than a whole new episode. The southern Korean Netflix mega-hit has become a cultural phenomenon after arrival, probably because many of us can relate to the themes of the series to be desperate to withdraw from the debt under the crushing of capitalism. While season 1 has built an infernal world where short of money competitors have contributed to survive the fatal games for children for a Grand Prix, seasons 2 and now have a uber-cynical and unpleasant speaker attitude which was perhaps the ultimate theme of the series all along: when the chips are broken, people are intrinsically horrible.

I do not even disagree with this evaluation: people are Often horrible! But so that “Squid Game” brings us through three violent seasons and concludes in a way that seems to say a little more than “everything is zero, what were you waiting for you?” Feel a little disappointment. But it was perhaps the only logical end that the show could use (until Netflix launches the American spin-off with David Fincher working behind the scenes).

In season 2 (read my review here), the winner of season 1 of “Squid Game”, Gi-Hun (Lee Jung-Jae), returned to the matches he has already beaten for two reasons. First of all, he wanted to bring down the games from the inside. And secondly, he wanted to prove to the mysterious and masked Front Man (Lee Byung-Hun) who directed the spectacle that people, despite all their faults, were ultimately good. Even after playing the games once, Gi-Hun was firm in his conviction that people will always do the right thing. He was in a brutal awakening.

Indeed, season 2 and most of season 3 are devoted to proving that the hypothesis of Gi-Hun Mal. There were harmful players in the first season, but the seasons 2 and 3 only increased this concept, surrounding Gi-Hun with truly horrible people who are ready to overthrow a lot of blood if it means that they will win a huge monetary prize. Yes, Gi-Hun also met good people, such as Trans Hyun-JU (Park Sung-Hoon), the pregnant jun-hee (Jo Yuri) and the mother-son team Geum-Ja (Kang Ae-Sim) and Yong-Sik (Yang Dong-Geun). But the majority of new players sometimes seem squarely psychotic, and Gi-Hun finds his belief inherent in the goodness of the people tested in each turn.

Season 2 ended with Gi-Hun inspiring some of his colleagues players to stage a violent uprising against the swirling guards who direct the show. Unfortunately, Gi-Hun did not realize that his new best boyfriend, player 001, was secretly the man of the disguised front. While the season went to a violent end, many players were killed and the rebellion was deposited with serious consequences. Season 3 resumes immediately after that (in fact, he is actually returning a few minutes to provide us with a new context of something we have already seen).

Again, surviving players vote to stay in the game – not because it makes sense, but because the show would end if they made the intelligent decision and vote to get out of there. Gi-Hun is now a broken man, haunted by his failures, and new deadly games arise themselves (my favorite is a completely nervous jumping rope play with two giant robot statues). Who will survive and what will they be of what will remain?

Meanwhile, the Jun-Ho disgrace cop (Wi Ha-joon), who happens to be the long lost brother of the front man, always sails to try to find the island on which the games are held. This scenario felt lifeless in season 2, and it always seems this way in season 3 – although it ultimately leads to something. Sort of. While all the stories of the show end up concluding one or the other, you start to have the impression that the series goes through the movements.

The creator / writer / director of Squid Game “Hwang Dong-Hyuk said that he was not itchy exactly for more” squid game “, especially after the first season made him money. But the first season turned out to be so massive success that Netflix lets go. And although Hwang did not phone it exactly, you can feel A weariness at work, as if “game squid” sighs saying: “Let’s start with it, isn’t it?”

There is a lot of impressive production conception associated with exciting moments in these last episodes, and the last scene in the final is necessarily to make many people speak (I know that I almost let a cry on the screen). But while season 3 of “Squid Game” checked its last hours, I could feel my interest sliding – and that certainly did not help that these masked Uber -Rich VIPs return to the dissemination of a more horrible dialogue. I have no doubt that Netflix will try to find new ways to maintain the brand “Squid Game” in one form or another, but for the moment, it is time to give this story a much necessary rest. Game finished.

/ Film assessment: 5 out of 10

Season 3 of the “Squid Game” is now in trouble on Netflix.