Squid Game Season 3

pel1300 said:
Season two was better than I expected it to be but that last episode was so dumb.
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This is probably going to be one of those over the top final seasons where you either give in a bit to the bits of silly stuff and have fun, or you're going to have a worse time as you might find quite a bit you don't like.

I'm going to do the former.
 
Cant wait for this. The sequel to the glass stepping stones looks to be in there. Was curious to know what game was going to top that.
 
Done with season 3. The second episode gave me tears no doubt and I think the 4th one as well. The ending was fine, expected, but fine. The whole sequence of events in the final game was....not very good tho. Felt rushed, out of ideas, nothing epic about it, just a bunch of clownfuckery. Rofl at the final scene in the alley....wtf...they're going to milk this with a
US version arent they? Fucking Netflix, they always have to ruin shit...

Overall s2+3 since they're basically one season no idea why the fuck they named this one season 3, but overall its a 7.9/10 for me. Not good enough for 8, but not bad enough for anythng lower.
 
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pretty goofy, and nowhere was good as season 1, netflix just threw enough money at them that they couldn't refuse. Just going to get worse and worse with more seasons.
 
Charlie's take and probably mirriors my view on it. Contains spoilers be warned..


Bleh season. Started off strong but falls off after the first few eps. Not happy with the ending either..
No real pay off to any story arcs really to what they were building up (detective especially). And Netflix are obviously going to milk it for all its worth.
Massive disappointment overall, I'd give it a 5 or 6 out of 10.
 
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Is this the full season? I read they were going to split it into two parts. I'm at work so looking it up will have to wait after I post this.
 
Thought it was good for the most part. The games were interesting enough in gamesmanship to keep me watching.

But 456's journey was pretty much useless in the end. Maybe just an accurate reflection on the real world.

Left open more than enough minor storylines to turn into a bunch of C-tier spinoffs though.
 
I binged this on a day off. I liked most of what I watched except for two aspects:

1. Every bit of logic (or rather lack thereof) during the final game.
2. The secondary plot's conclusion (which also occurred during the final game)

It's hard writing endings. It's why I applaud and bring up shows that do them well. Barry. Ozark. Breaking Bad. 3 quick examples that all had good endings to me.

Not many shows succeed at the type of ending you're going to get with this show, and sadly this one also feels like it stumbles at the very finish line.

I'll never get to see the behind the scenes on what happened (like if there was studio interference from Netflix) because K-drama production staff are kind of like J-drama production staff. They stay silent about things like that and just decide to either never work with a client ever again, and/or move on to something else.

The show's direction, acting, set design, costume design, and pretty much every other aspect were firing on all cylinders. It was great to witness. What I feel isn't as bad as Game of Thrones Season 8, which was a beautifully directed travesty of writing, but I do feel that some big punches, moments that should have been more impactful, were instead pulled in Squid Game season 3.
 
Dirk Benedict said:
Is this the full season? I read they were going to split it into two parts. I'm at work so looking it up will have to wait after I post this.
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Yes it's the end. Season 2 got cut off at the final episode so they make a season 3. Otherwise it would've been "too long" according to the director
 
I think they had a big challenge creating anything past season 1. They didn't really plan for that and only did it because it blew up. With that in mind, I think it was still a success. They created many memorable side characters in both seasons, had some interesting games, had some crushing moments. It was generally pretty good.
 
Urban said:
What's the purpose of the detective storyline ?
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in s1 guy takes an entire season to find the island, does nothing.
in s2+3 guy takes the entire seasons to find the island, does nothing.

lmao i saw on insta that the actor is watching a lot of vids trolling his character for being useless. I guess he felt the same way.
 
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The Cockatrice said:
in s1 guy takes an entire season to find the island, does nothing.
in s2+3 guy takes the entire seasons to find the island, does nothing.

lmao i saw on insta that the actor is watching a lot of vids trolling his character for being useless. I guess he felt the same way.
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kunonabi said:
Honestly? nothing really. It's goes practically nowhere.
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S3 ending spoilers:

Him getting into the facility again just to point the gun at him and asking: Why ? Why Brother? LMAO i was soooo mad. You know what they should have done ? Let the Villian say: "I couldn't protect my daughter so let me at least save this one life" or "…so that the child can life"

But no…The brother just turns his back and goes underground.
 
I feel like some aspects were forced in to cater to an international audience. Like for part1. Guns gun guns! even though the plan made absolutely no sense.
 
It wasn't particularly good, but things really went downhill when the baby came into the picture.

And it was clear that they weren't finished with Squid games....
 
Finished it.

Some of the games in the final season were pretty awesome and the tension was great and overall the production quality was some of the best in the series.

The final episode and I guess finale to the Korean Squid Games was an anti-climax, with the detective achieving nothing and I was at least hoping for a scene in which the V.I.Ps get butchered but alas.

So it was a poor end to this saga with little pay off!

I am assuming they will come back with a season 4 at some point, based in the US going by the ending scenes, perhaps in a few years.

So whenever that happens I hope there is some real pay off.
 
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Yep, season 3 was a pretty big let down for me. We basically got no closure at all, and the plot went nowhere, imo. Everything from Season 2-3 feels pointless now. I was initially surprised by how well Season 2 started off, but it just went downhill the further the show progressed.
 
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I loved Season 1, really enjoyed Season 2 and was invested on how the story would conclude.

I accidentally had the ending spoiled for me, and now I'm really glad I didn't watch Season 3. That's a bullet dodged.
 
Season 3 felt much better paced so it was a very easy to watch. It entertained me but nothing really paid off. It's almost too on the nose for being a caricature of the perfect final form of a Netflix show. Pointless, yet entertaining, and manages to get you to watch it to the end.

I still haven't finished Andor Season 2, but I powered through this whole thing in two days.

Squid game season 2 was divisive but I really liked the concept of it, basically they tried to break the game and draw outside the borders (like a speedrunner glitching out of bounds) only for the show to revert back to it's original state in season 3.
 
It felt like it wanted to be bleak, all the heroic attempts plots failed, all the plans to take down the island and those involved failed, etc.

And once the baby was introduced it felt like the show dived into extreme predictable territory. Just felt meh in the end.
 
I'm only one the 4th episode of S3 and this whole show gotta be one of the most misogynistic things I've ever seen. I think the dude is just a bad writer tbh, I'll finish but the good will from the first half is gone.
 
One episode left.
The games themselves are still fun, everything in between them is fucking awful though.
 
Finished it

It's meh

First season was okay, show progressively got worse. But it was never even great

If you like Netflix shows with people competing in games, Alice in Borderlands was much better

New season coming out too, which is interesting because I believe the manga ends when season 2 ends
 
Really unsatisfying ending to the series. Felt like nothing was really resolved. I got The Last Jedi deja vu with how storylines went nowhere.

It really was just part two of the second season, would have been so much better if they didn't split it into two parts and just had a faster paced second season with ten episodes.
 
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Punished Miku said:
I'm just waiting for the Squad Games reality show season 2 now. The 1st was surprisingly entertaining.
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They filmed the live contestant games 8 months ago so I imagine its will be served up really soon



I just finished season three last night. Season 4 in 2 years... maybe..
 
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I collect VHS tapes said:
If you like Netflix shows with people competing in games, Alice in Borderlands was much better

New season coming out too, which is interesting because I believe the manga ends when season 2 ends
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With the teaser at the end of AiB, they implied that

The protagonist and others could still be 'stuck' within the game

They tried to go for an Inception-esque ending but now they're going to have to explain their way out of it with this new season.
 
I hated how it ended. I enjoyed S1 and S3. I'd say S1 was the best because it built everything from scratch. I was also closer to the cast in S1. I'd watch a reboot.
 
A lot of people seem really unsatisfied, but I liked it. Yeah, a lot of stuff was left unanswered. Namely more information on Front Man and how exactly he climbed the rankings to be in the position he is, and how his character to the way it is. But I thought it ended pretty well.

The overall theme of Squid Game is really nihilism. And I think Gi Hun sticking it to Front Man in the end and giving him a renewed hope on humanity to me was a better ending than Gi Hun exposing the games and everyone getting arrested by Korean authorities in the end... happily ever after. I also liked No-eul getting what's his face off the island and back to his daughter. That made for an emotionally satisfying conclusion there. Perhaps more than any other storyline. Some other stuff didn't quite feel like it paid off like the detective arriving just in time to not do anything, but overall I think changing Front Man was a satisfying enough ending for me.:
 
Finished it.
The season overall wasn't terrible, but it was easily the worst one and I didn't really like the ending at all

All the side plots felt uninteresting and pointless. The cop one in particular was just hilariously bad, spent 2 seasons looking for the Island only to loose (almost) his entire team, get there at the last moment and accomplish literally nothing lol.
Gi-hun also really ends up having a terrible character arc. Dude enters the games, is let go then willingly returns knowing exactly what he is getting himself into, then he wins and gets all pissy about it, then instead of going to fix his relationship with his daughter he decides to take down the organizers of the games only to go about it in the worst way possible, ends up back in the games with zero leverage, gets the people who trusted him killed, refuses multiple ways out because he doesn't want to kill people who have expressed their desire to kill a newborn baby multiple times, ends up dying not really having accomplished anything beyond maybe having shown the frontman that he is a better person. He also had like 5 lines of dialogue this whole season.

I also think adding the baby sort of undermines the whole central conflict. Season 2 felt like it was all about the Frontman pushing back against Gi-hun's argument by letting them vote after each round and even letting them split the prize if they decided to leave, by adding an innocent baby the whole "these people are choosing to take part" argument goes away and the entire central conflict becomes way less nuanced and interesting.

And of course it ends with them confirming they want to further milk it with some US version lol. I'm sure Netflix writers are itching for all the same generic US social commentary they'll be able to add
 
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Oh by the way the VIPs was some of the most cringe shit ever

Whoever wrote their dialogue should be sent to North Korea

Why did it also sound like they're all dubbed English?

All around horrible horrible horrible part of the show
 
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All those side stories of the detective and that girl saving the one contestant were pointless.

Otherwise the games were fun.
 
Fbh said:
Finished it.
The season overall wasn't terrible, but it was easily the worst one and I didn't really like the ending at all

All the side plots felt uninteresting and pointless. The cop one in particular was just hilariously bad, spent 2 seasons looking for the Island only to loose (almost) his entire team, get there at the last moment and accomplish literally nothing lol.
Gi-hun also really ends up having a terrible character arc. Dude enters the games, is let go then willingly returns knowing exactly what he is getting himself into, then he wins and gets all pissy about it, then instead of going to fix his relationship with his daughter he decides to take down the organizers of the games only to go about it in the worst way possible, ends up back in the games with zero leverage, gets the people who trusted him killed, refuses multiple ways out because he doesn't want to kill people who have expressed their desire to kill a newborn baby multiple times, ends up dying not really having accomplished anything beyond maybe having shown the frontman that he is a better person. He also had like 5 lines of dialogue this whole season.

I also think adding the baby sort of undermines the whole central conflict. Season 2 felt like it was all about the Frontman pushing back against Gi-hun's argument by letting them vote after each round and even letting them split the prize if they decided to leave, by adding an innocent baby the whole "these people are choosing to take part" argument goes away and the entire central conflict becomes way less nuanced and interesting.

And of course it ends with them confirming they want to further milk it with some US version lol. I'm sure Netflix writers are itching for all the same generic US social commentary they'll be able to add
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I didn't like that Gi-Hun didn't end up accomplishing more, but I did like that the ending wasn't the cliche where everyone gets caught and gets brought down. I liked how it had a bittersweet ending(mostly bitter). I think where they failed most was not giving us more context with Front Man other than a brief flashback to understand his motivations.
I collect VHS tapes said:
Oh by the way the VIPs was some of the most cringe shit ever

Whoever wrote their dialogue should be sent to North Korea

Why did it also sound like they're all dubbed English?

All around horrible horrible horrible part of the show
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They were awful. The woman sounded dubbed, but I closely watched her mouth and it seemed like maybe it wasn't? If so, that is some of the worst acting I've ever seen. It sounded like a 1980s foreign film dub. Whoever she is, she can't act.

Was she the same girl from the airport btw? The one who gave the ticket to the North Korean chick?. They looked the same and the camera focused on her, so I'm guessing it was.
 
DragoonKain said:
I didn't like that Gi-Hun didn't end up accomplishing more, but I did like that the ending wasn't the cliche where everyone gets caught and gets brought down. I liked how it had a bittersweet ending(mostly bitter). I think where they failed most was not giving us more context with Front Man other than a brief flashback to understand his motivations.

They were awful. The woman sounded dubbed, but I closely watched her mouth and it seemed like maybe it wasn't? If so, that is some of the worst acting I've ever seen. It sounded like a 1980s foreign film dub. Whoever she is, she can't act.

Was she the same girl from the airport btw? The one who gave the ticket to the North Korean chick?. They looked the same and the camera focused on her, so I'm guessing it was.
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The female VIP is some Hong Kong actress, and I'm pretty sure the airport girl was Korean.
 
I collect VHS tapes said:
Oh by the way the VIPs was some of the most cringe shit ever

Whoever wrote their dialogue should be sent to North Korea

Why did it also sound like they're all dubbed English?

All around horrible horrible horrible part of the show
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Found it strange that they just up and vanished part way through the last match. They forget to finish filming them?
 
The VIPs were dubbed in english. But, here's the funny part. If you watch their scenes with the original language, you can hear their actual voices in english and they sound much better.

Maybe it was cheaper to dub their voices.
 
DragoonKain said:
A lot of people seem really unsatisfied, but I liked it. Yeah, a lot of stuff was left unanswered. Namely more information on Front Man and how exactly he climbed the rankings to be in the position he is, and how his character to the way it is. But I thought it ended pretty well.

The overall theme of Squid Game is really nihilism. And I think Gi Hun sticking it to Front Man in the end and giving him a renewed hope on humanity to me was a better ending than Gi Hun exposing the games and everyone getting arrested by Korean authorities in the end... happily ever after. I also liked No-eul getting what's his face off the island and back to his daughter. That made for an emotionally satisfying conclusion there. Perhaps more than any other storyline. Some other stuff didn't quite feel like it paid off like the detective arriving just in time to not do anything, but overall I think changing Front Man was a satisfying enough ending for me.:
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Same here, I liked S3 better than S2. It's depressing as fuck but there was no other way to end this - story like that can't have a happy ending.
 
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