How much can “squid game” get? When the second season of Netflix’s sensational drama ended, she left our hero, Seong Gi-Hun (Lee Jung-Jae), in the middle of her greatest failure. After having gathered his comrades to turn the tables on the forces controlling the holders, the man (Lee Byung-Hun) overthrew the script, leading to Gi-Hun to look at his best murdered friend before his eyes. It was a decision of the creator of the Hwang Dong-Hyuk series which spoke about it a long time and reminded the viewers that, despite the issues, Gi-Hun is just as trapped now as it was during its first round at the Games. “Abandon all hope, you enter here”, indeed.
Season 3 passes an important part of its number of episodes that persists in devastation, which makes the first stages of the last season – at least until we obtained this American version of the series of David Fincher – appropriately. While season 2 has presented a lot of configuration, this new episode plunges into the immediate consequences of the failed rebellion. Gi-Hun and our other players, including Lee Myung-Gi (IM Si-Wan), Kim Jun-Hee (Jo Yu-Ri), Dae-ho (Kang ha-neul), Cho Hyun-Ju (Park Sung-Hoon), Jang Geum-Ja (Kang Ae-Shim), Park Yong-Sik (Yang Dong-Geun) and others, are drawn in the right. Dong-Hyuk cannot resist putting the remaining faces that the public knew throughout season 2 via the Ringer.
Although the frustrations of an end of Cliffhanger were able to annoy the public at the end of the last round, the partitioned approach and the overall number of increased episodes are paying here. Similar to the way in which the start of last season overturned public expectations as to what games could be played, this block of episodes once again benefits from the spectator knowing what will happen. Each interaction between the characters takes a significantly heavier tone while the “Calmar game” is due to its conclusion, an impact has made all the more powerful by the fact that Dong-Hyuk actively puts the elimination of Gi-Hun for the first hours to dig into the support distribution. This is a very effective decision, which is well accompanied by the growing challenges of late games. The effect infuses “squid game” with a new sense of despair. Remember how much the marble game was back in season 1? A first episode of season 3 manages to overcome this, with an absolutely heartbreaking effect.
There is light – only light, it is the “calmar game” after all – at the end of this dark tunnel, however. As the season progresses, Dong-Hyuk explores family relationships with a surprisingly emotional effect. This element has always been present in the series, but the concept of what parents and children must become an essential element of the procedure and still enriches the series because of this. Part of this elevation is due to the performance of Lee Jung-Jae. The recall of his failure as a father has always taken advantage of gi-hun, and without giving a lot, the possibility of a certain level of personal buyout helps to raise the already superlative performance of Lee Jung-Jae at another level. The work he does, in particular in the fifth episode, is magic.
What continues to be less convincing are the plots of Hwang Jun-Ho (Wi Ha-Joon) and Kang No-Eul (Park Gyu-Young), which do not offer much to do outside their existing plots of the first half of the season. The two parts are largely stuck in the same rut of trying to escape in the case of non-Eul or to find the island in the instance of Jun-Ho. The net profit has these plots that work on the water until the last episode, resolving in a way that is not as impactful as the main story. In addition, the intermination of their plots often dilutes the power and propulsion of games, blocking tension instead of improving it. The same goes for the inclusion of a new VIP cycle, whose Greek -shaped Greek nature becomes a vehicle to return the evidence instead of offering something new or insight to the procedure.
When “squid game” digs in its intense moments, the spectacle proves that it is even more than capable of making a tragically convincing story which manages to entertain and invest yourself emotionally in its characters. The Dong-Hyuk series has reinvented and revitalized the Battle Royale genre to huge results. Of course, the intensity of all this is a functionality, not a bug, but it is married to strong characters and haunting visuals that persist. Season 3 continues this tradition while providing a particularly resonant conclusion.
“Squid game”, in his last moments, says that while life continues, find a way to improve the life that surrounds you in the context of the great machine in which we all gotten used to it to make it possible. That is to say that “squid game” manages to find a ray of light in the middle of all this gloom. In such a difficult reality, this victory is worth all the money in the world.
Season 3 of “Squid Game” is now in trouble on Netflix.
