Netflix | Squid Game (2021-2025)

[roguejp]

Originally Posted by bsweetness

It's been known for a while that

[Show spoiler]David Fincher has been developing an American version of the show. Not a remake, but having the games happening elsewhere in the same universe. No official announcements so far, but the ending seems to point to it being on the horizon.

Thanks, didn't know that!

[jcs913]

This season was horrible, but all would not have been lost if,

[Show spoiler]the baby would have been thrown off the platform. I know, sounds brutal, but so is the violence and original premise of the show. Then those 2 could have had it out and hopefully both fall off. No winner at the end would have been a perfect ending to the show. Way too safe of an ending, like most shows have been now for years.

[critterdvd]

I watched episodes 1 and 2 of season 3 last night and… I might just skip to the series finale tonight…

[Doomhunter]

I’m fine with accepting that the series ended with season one

[FlamedLiquid]

I liked the a lot of the new characters they added to season 2/3.

[smoothbutter]

I hated where they went with the story and the only episode that had quality was episode 2. I don't have any respect for people who think otherwise. I'm happy that Hwang Dong apparently won't be involved with Squid game USA or any future spin-off

[apricissimus]

I was happy to see

[Show spoiler]Thanos briefly return in Min Su's hallucination. He was my favorite character in Season 2 (in a love-to-hate-him kind of way).

[apricissimus]

Originally Posted by jcs913

This season was horrible, but all would not have been lost if,

[Show spoiler]the baby would have been thrown off the platform. I know, sounds brutal, but so is the violence and original premise of the show. Then those 2 could have had it out and hopefully both fall off. No winner at the end would have been a perfect ending to the show. Way too safe of an ending, like most shows have been now for years.

I didn't think it was "safe" to

[Show spoiler]kill the main character that we've been following this whole time.

Despite Squid Game being a pretty fantastical premise in itself,

[Show spoiler]it really strained credulity how quiet and calm the baby always was. No constant feeding? No crying at all hours?

[Halisty]

It didn’t quite live up to the hype.

[Ben_C]

Originally Posted by Halisty

It didn’t quite live up to the hype.

Not sure if it was ever going to tbh. The first season is absolutely incredible, and felt so fresh and original, and subsequent seasons were going to struggle to live up to the extremely high expectations.
Season 2/3 were very good, just not as good as the first.

[MifuneFan]

While I still enjoyed watching it, this third season was easily the worst one. More than anything else I found the VIP's and their English voice acting to be a complete travesty. Their dialogue is not only atrocious, but my god the acting is just beyond terrible, and takes me completely out of the show. I felt the same way in S1 as well, but they have way more screen time in this final part. I also found the stuff with the involvement of a baby to be really stupid. Not to mention the terrible CGI of it (which I acknowledge its use of couldn't be avoided). The games this time were also much more predictable, especially that final one where you could see where it was ging from a mile away. I'm also highly disappointed at how little emotion and tension was there at that climax given how great a character they were throughout the show. The extended epilogue had a few good moments to wrap some loose ends up, but that ending with the

[Show spoiler]Cate Blanchett

cameo was absolutely braindead stupid and unnecessary.

[Ben_C]

Originally Posted by MifuneFan

While I still enjoyed watching it, this third season was easily the worst one. More than anything else I found the VIP's and their English voice acting to be a complete travesty. Their dialogue is not only atrocious, but my god the acting is just beyond terrible, and takes me completely out of the show.

English speaking actors in Korean productions tend to be a bit rubbish in my experience - something like Welcome to Dongmakgol immediately springs to mind, a decent film but the US actors are pretty naff. There are exceptions of course, if they’re relatively good actors, like Thomas Kretschmann in A Taxi Driver.

The VIPs in Squid Game should have just been rich, elite Koreans.

[KcMsterpce]

The worst part about the rich people is that everything they say, and every scene they are in, does nothing to move the story forward. It's just a stagnant time sink that makes the show even worse, the acting is insufferable, and the audience learns nothing.

[Lutz]

Aren’t the rich people dubbed in deliberately annoying and facetious English to drive home the point?

I thought it was a quite poignant moment at the end where they were completely unable to grasp the concept of caring for another person. It felt like one of the only moments in the third season where they really landed something new that hadn’t previously been explored on the social commentary side.

[spider-neil]

Season two was excellent. The criticism is baffling.

[Pieter V]

The Making of Squid Game Season 3 | Netflix - YouTube