Squid Game’s uneven season 3 leaves the door wide open

The third and final season of the industry-defining Squid Game confidently delivers each new round of the deathly games with spectacularly brutal aplomb - but its attempts at worldbuilding are disappointingly tired and uneven.

Some of Squid Game's most interesting dynamics from the first two seasons - the politics among the masked guards, the organ-harvesting operation, the relationship between Front Man/In-ho (played by Lee Byung-hun) and brother Jun-ho (Wi Ha-jun), the crew of burly men led by Jun-ho trying to uncover and infiltrate the island hosting the games - screech to frustratingly lackluster conclusions, without enlarging the world beyond what we have already seen so far.

A new season of any show should always aim to ask new questions. For Squid Game, there are plenty to choose from. What is the selection process like for guards, and how do they get promoted up the hierarchy into the "triangle" sergeants or, eventually, the "square" leaders? What are their inner politics like? What other things happened between brothers In-ho and Jun-ho before In-ho joined the games? If Jun-ho's crew manages to infiltrate the island, will the games be stopped? How will that happen? Wh …

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