If you watched Squid Game season three already, you know it takes the chaos to another level. The big piggy bank of blood money still hangs over every scene. But something feels different now. Maybe more off the rails than ever. Let’s talk about it.
What Happens To Gi-hun?
Our guy Gi-hun, Player 456, is pretty much a ghost at the start. After all the horrors of the last uprising, he’s barely talking. He just stares, haunted. Makes sense. He’s been through two seasons of mind-bending bloodshed. His silence actually says a lot. It sets the tone. This season is darker, more hopeless.
When you see him sit quietly, while other players stab each other for cash, you get this pit in your stomach. The show used to lean on Gi-hun’s everyman vibe. Now he’s like a witness, and the rest of the players? Worse than ever.
The Voting That Drags
One thing that really drags in this final run is the voting. You’d think it would be tense. Players deciding if they’ll risk death or just split the pot and go home. It should hit hard. But it’s the same thing every time.
A few beg to leave. Most choose greed. The fancy VIPs with their creepy masks watch from the shadows, dropping cheesy one-liners. They love the vote drama. The audience? Not so much. I kept hoping they’d stop debating and just jump into another twisted version of dodgeball or marbles.
New Player, Big Twist
Can’t say too much without blowing it. But there’s a forced player twist that shakes up the middle episodes. The twist is wild. Even for Squid Game, it’s a reach. This poor soul is dragged in without any say. It messes with your head but also stretches believability to its limit.
Still, once that twist lands, you can’t look away. It makes you wonder how far the show will push its moral lines. Turns out, pretty far.
Are The Games Still Fun To Watch?
This is where season three stumbles a bit. Remember the pure terror of Red Light, Green Light? Or the simple panic of the honeycomb shapes? The new games don’t pop like that. They feel like filler between shouting matches and bloody betrayals.
Three games wrap it all up. None as iconic as the first season’s brutal child’s play. Some feel rushed. Others lack that mix of innocence and violence that made Squid Game so twistedly brilliant at the start.
The VIPs Are Still Weird
The masked VIPs are back, sprinkling in awkward English dialogue. They watch, comment, and try to be edgy. But mostly, they kill the vibe. When they pop up, you feel pulled out of the tension. They belong in a lesser show, not in Squid Game’s gritty nightmare.
Kang No-eul And Jun-ho’s Hunt
There’s another story running alongside the games. Kang No-eul, the North Korean defector, is now an undercover guard. Her side plot gets a lot of time. Sometimes it works. Sometimes you wish they’d get back to the games.
Meanwhile, Jun-ho is back, hopping islands looking for his brother In-ho. In-ho is the Front Man now. He’s a bright spot this season. Cool, calm, dangerous. He brings quiet menace that Squid Game needs when the rest of the show leans too heavy into splatter and spectacle.
Final Stretch Delivers Chaos
The last two episodes pull out all the stops. If you stick through the slower middle, you get big payoffs. Opera music. Huge betrayals. More blood than ever. This isn’t the same pointed social satire anymore. It’s a full-blown action-thriller with shocking moments and gut punches.
It works in a new way. Less clever, more chaos. Some fans will miss the sharp edges of the first season. But if you like big drama, you’ll be glued to your screen.
Does Squid Game Still Hit Hard?
Squid Game blew up because it was fresh. Dark but sharp. Kids’ games twisted into nightmares about money, power, and choice. This final season still tries to poke at those ideas. But it mostly swaps them for bigger set pieces and meaner characters.
The satire fades as the body count rises. The desperate everyday people are gone. What’s left are monsters fighting monsters. Sometimes that’s what you want to watch. Sometimes you wish they’d played a round of conkers to the death instead.
So yeah, Squid Game season three goes out with a bang. Or maybe a scream. It might not be as smart as the first. But it’s big, bloody, and totally wild. If you stuck around this long, you probably wouldn’t dare turn away before the final shot.
And that last minute? If you know, you know.