Squid Game Season 3 Review: Season 3 Has Mixed Reactions; Sets New Records For Viewership
Table Of Content
- Squid Game Season 3 Review: Is Squid Game Season 3 the Last?
- Squid Game Season 3 Release Date
- Squid Game Season 3 Ending Explained
- Tracing Back To Season One
- Which Season Of Squid Game Is The Best?
- Squid Game Season 3 Review: Did People Really Not Like Season 3?
- What Could Have Been Better?
- 1.The Premature Demise Of Favorite Characters
- 2. Keeping Underrated Characters Behind The Curtain
- 3. Sacrificing Player 456? Um, No Thanks
- 4. Leave The West In The West
- Is The Squid Game Series A Hit Or Flop
- Squid Game Season 3 Review: My Takeaway
Hi guys. I am not here with my regular cheerful greetings; my apologies. I just finished watching Squid Game Season 3.
Just an update, guys: I am on my way to becoming an astrologer because I absolutely predicted this.
I am disappointed for more than one reason. And the most frustrating part is that Squid Game is over, and I cannot even say goodbye because I am just so unhappy.
Squid Game Season 3 broke the Netflix Viewership Record with 60.1 million views, and additionally, it broke my heart!
Squid Game Season 3 Review: Is Squid Game Season 3 the Last?
Yes, to reassure you, Squid Game season 3 is officially the last season of the series, marking the end of a phenomenal series.
Therefore, it is time for us, the viewers, to understand how this series ended and why the ending was so disappointing. Pardon my frustration, guys.
Squid Game Season 3 Release Date
Squid Game season 3 came out on June 27, 2025, and is available on Netflix. The first six episodes were released at the same time around the world. In India, the show became available at 12:30 PM IST.
This season picks up from where season 2 ended. Gi-hun continues his mission to stop the deadly game while the Front Man remains in danger.
Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk confirmed that this season will be the last of the original series. It will focus on Gi-hun’s journey and his struggle against the Front Man.
Squid Game Season 3 Ending Explained
Season 3 picks up right where Season 2 left off. Seong Gi-hun, known as Player 456, returns to the deadly tournament in hopes of stopping the games for good.
Last season, Gi-hun struggled to persuade his fellow players to leave the competition instead of risking their lives for the prize money, which goes up with each player eliminated.
At the end of Season 2, Gi-hun tries to lead a rebellion, but his fellow rebels are killed as they fight for a lost cause.
In Season 3, Gi-hun feels defeated and has almost lost his will to live. He walks through the games like a man who is already dead until the birth of a baby gives him a small glimmer of hope for humanity.
No-eul, a former guard, has survived. She visits the man she saved during the competition and his now-healthy daughter.
Although he does not know she saved him, they have a friendly conversation as if they were strangers.
On her way home, No-eul receives a phone call from a service she hired to find her daughter, whom she thought was dead based on the files from the island.
Unexpectedly, the service informs her that they have a lead indicating her daughter might be in China. Hopeful, No-eul boards a flight to China.
Tracing Back To Season One
At the airport, “Squid Game” wraps up a storyline from the first season. Jung Ho-yeon stood out as Kang Sae-byeok, a North Korean defector who joined the games to win money so her mother could reach South Korea.
As her brother’s only guardian, Sae-byeok asked Gi-hun to take care of him before she died. Gi-hun has supported Sae-byeok’s younger brother financially.
In the final episode, we see the boy reunite with his mother, who has successfully arrived in South Korea.
Meanwhile, Gi-hun’s story continues with the Front Man and the future of the games in the United States.
Fans remember that Gi-hun’s daughter moved to Los Angeles during the first season. Gi-hun was on a plane to see her after winning the games, but he turned back to end the games for good.
In the finale, after Gi-hun’s death, the Front Man visits Gi-hun’s daughter in L.A. He tells her that her father has died and refers to Gi-hun as “a friend,” which simplifies their complicated relationship.
He gives her a box with Gi-hun’s bloody Player 456 jacket and a bank card containing the rest of Gi-hun’s winnings from the first tournament.
Which Season Of Squid Game Is The Best?
I think that Season One of Squid Game, one of the most remarkable thriller series, remains the best season ever. And mind you, I have reasons to feel the same.
Many people online have also said this, which is my primary reason: Season one is a complete storyline in itself.
Squid Game Season 3 Review: Did People Really Not Like Season 3?
Well, I have mixed feelings about the whole series, and the only reason that stands is the Finale.
I felt that I was being too pessimistic about it, so I went online. For validation, confirmation, perspective, you name it.
You wanna know? Let’s take a look at what people are saying!
“It missed the mark compared to the previous seasons. There was much less tension in episode 5 because of how the last game turned out. Also, the ending hinting at an American Squid Game was offputting.”
“S1 has no competition, the first game of season 1 red light and green light, the players getting killed in the name of elimination was shocking.
Deaths were so impactful, I remember Ali’s innocent face, after getting betrayed by sangwoo etc…
Also the season 1 ending felt a true ending.”
“It’s the rushed ending, everyone dies, which is expected, but why were we following the detective brother only for him to have a brief staredown and then scuba dive away from the island, then in the flash forward he’s just seemingly forgotten what he’s spent the last year or so of his life dedicating himself to and just carrying on? Like where is the payoff in this storyline?”
What Could Have Been Better?
The Squid Game season 3 review is practically incomplete without mentioning its flaws. The season could have been way better if these ares were more, well, different.
You can say that these are mostly the reasons why Squid Game season 3 was a huge failure. Let’s take a look, shall we?
1.The Premature Demise Of Favorite Characters
In Season 3 of Squid Game, many favorite characters die quickly, which leaves fans with fewer people to support.
Characters like Jun-hee (Shim Eun-kyung), Hyun-ju (Park Sung-hoon), and Jang Geum-ja (Kang Ae-shim) all die in the first half of the finale.
Fans believe, and I agree, that these characters could have played more important roles.
2. Keeping Underrated Characters Behind The Curtain
The latest season of Squid Game did a disservice to its three key characters:
- Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-jun)
- Kang No-eul (Park Gyu-young)
- Front Man (Lee Byung-hun)
The creator did not give these characters enough chances to shine, honestly.
Detective Jun-ho returned to find his brother, Front Man, but his story received less screen time than fans hoped.
Even after discovering the island’s location, he disappeared from the plot, leaving viewers wondering what had happened to him.
Kang No-eul, also known as Soldier 011, was introduced as a North Korean defector. In Season 2, she had a brief moment where she killed some organizers involved in illegal organ trafficking.
However, in Season 3, her effort to save Player 246 seemed disconnected from the main story.
3. Sacrificing Player 456? Um, No Thanks
In a surprising turn of events, Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) gave up his life to save Player 222, Jun-hee’s newborn, who won the game.
The creator thought it would convey ‘hope and redemption,’ but many fans found it disjointed and unconvincing. Some even called it ‘emotional manipulation.’
Gi-hun returned to the survival games to save as many players as he could, but he lost his purpose in the third season.
He also strayed from his goal of avenging his best friend Jung-bae’s (Lee Seo-hwan) death, which was his focus in Season 2.
4. Leave The West In The West
Cate Blanchett, the Academy Award-winning actress, surprised everyone with her appearance as a recruiter in the final scene of Squid Game Season 3.
This has led to rumors about the creation of Squid Game USA, with David Fincher, a Hollywood filmmaker, reportedly involved in the project.
Fans and critics worry that this could weaken the show’s Korean roots and its commentary on social issues.
One fan expressed their concern: “It just seems so unfitting. Asian childhood games played by Americans to survive just seem so odd.
The point of the games is to give players a nostalgic memory, but in a cruel and horrible way that ends with death. It wouldn‘t be the same.”
Is The Squid Game Series A Hit Or Flop
I wouldn’t say at all that the Squid Game series is a flop. Rather, I wholeheartedly agree that it is a global hit, a massie one at that.
However, when the series is made up of three seasons, and one of the first ones carries he whole weight on its shoulders, there’s really not much to say, is there?
Squid Game Season 3 Review: My Takeaway
Just because something seems “realistic” doesn’t mean it’s good. The creator did this season poorly overall. The episodes are too short to develop all the subplots.
Take the police plot, for example; the series wouldn’t change without it. That whole storyline doesn’t add anything.
What about Frontman’s reveal to Gi-Hun? There was no emotional impact. Gi-Hun didn’t fight against Frontman; he just accepted everything and left. Their conversation lacked substance.
I loved the first season a lot, and after the season two fiasco, I had high hopes for season 3, but it was very frustrating.
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