The end of squid game is a total success: more than a phenomenon, a great series (critic)
CLAP End for the series that returned the planet. Too trying, but surprisingly emotional, this conclusion refocuses the story, recalling that behind the cardboard and its marketing drifts, Squid Game is first of all a powerful work.
Game Over. The game stops for n ° 456. After 22 episodes of incredible violence, Squid game End today on Netflix, over an ever more impressive, always more fascinating chapter.
Initially, Hwang Dong-Hyeok did not want to continue its creation phenomenon released in 2021. But pushed by Netflix, the director ended up yielding. And he brilliantly knew how to solve the puzzle of the continuation not really necessary: rather than trying to artificially stretch his universe, he chose to plunge into what was the strength of the first season: the players, their faces, their faults, their dramas. He was able to inject maximum emotion into the final games of Squid gamewithout forcing yourself to tinker with a tarabiscotated mythology around the Front mangame itself or its creation – which, in any case, could never have satisfied.
Yes, Squid game Tire his reverence without delivering all the answers to the questions we asked ourselves. But this is not a problem.
Because Hwang preferred to keep the focal length on the strength of its concept: the tragic destinies of the participants, placing at the center Lee Jung-Jaeimmense. From the start, his character has evolved, matured, sank, and the actor accompanied him at each stage. In this season 3, it is at its top. More selected, more intense, the Korean actor has clearly enriched his game Over the games and brings this conclusion to his cursed candidate shoulders, in a amazing dramaturgy.
Of course, there are still a few lengths (the arc around the Lieutenant Hwang on its boat which turns in circles in the middle of the Korean islands is fairly using) and the rhythm is sometimes lacking. But this last part of Squid game is generally a success. Front, brutal, sometimes bordering on sustainable. Some scenes are so shocking that we are tempted to look away and the last tests are breathtaking (you will never play hide and seek with your children).
But it is also this total, uncompromising violence, which gives Squid game Its strength: Hwang Go to the end of his intentions, to the discomfort, to provoke a raw emotion, until the end of the final outcome.
At the end of these 6 deniers episodes – and despite an almost useless epilogue marked by an appearance of Guest Star fairly improbable Hollywood – we stay ko
This season 3 is the conclusion that it was necessary for this pop-cultural juggernaut, which will long mark the history of the series. Yes, Squid gameit is the biggest box in the history of Netflix (by far). But it’s much more than that. Hwang was able to reinvent the principle of Battle Royale (Inspired by the cult film by Kinji Fukasaku, released in 2000) to make it a spectacular charge against the entertainment society, against the commodification of suffering, against the disconnection of the richest.
Behind the masks and absurd games, it is a criticism of the shattering modern world. Beyond the shock and the morbid fascination hides an exceptionally poignant drama which constantly questions the human and their choices. A work too strong for what it has become in popular culture: a sadistic joke, a Halloween disguise, a playground for teenagers not to grasp its issues. And Netflix unfortunately contributed to this devaluation by going so far as to create its reality TV Squid game: the challengecynical variation of bad taste. Squid game deserves better. It deserves its place at the Pantheon on the small screen. Because the series has never played.
Squid Game, season 3 in 6 episodes, to see on Netflix from June 27, 2025.
