About Squid Game
To everyone that enjoys Squid Game, I can highly recommend the Two Seasons of Alice in Borderland!
Squid Game Season 2
Season 1 already dates back from 2021 while there were no real plans for a 2nd season and the creator actually didn't want to make it from what I've read. However, with the great success and the money doing what it does, the 2nd season was put in production. It took over 3 years to get it released though and the 2nd season was kind of split in 2 Half Seasons with 7 & 6 episodes and the story that kind of stopped while it was fully ongoing. It also feels that it was an 'obligation' both from the story point of view and giving the surviving actors a job again.
The only real thing I enjoyed about Season 2 were the actual games which were Red Light Green Light bit with the difference of player 456 tries to help everyone.
The 2nd game with the playground games were ok and I really liked the 3rd game with the caroussel and the number rooms. However, the season itself was kind of a letdown.
Squid Game Season 3
Or better season 2.5 was more of the same with rather generic predictable plotlines as you know everyone will die except for 1 person and the main question is how it will happen.
If anything I still enjoyed the setting of Squid Game and the 3 games were kind of ok even though none of them really put a smile on my face (which was the case with each of the games in Alice In Borderland). The plotline outside of the games felt rather arbitrary and an obligation, same for the guests which wasn't that convincing and the plotline with that fenale guard. Overall I kind of enjoyed watching it still but at the same time was left rather underwhelmed and Squid Game for me will always be what it was in the 1st Season. I'm still happy to give it a good 7/10. The ending was also pretty clear a setup for there to be an US version of this Series and maybe some other spinoffs.
Conclusion
I still enjoyed the final 6 episodes of Squid game but at the same time the magic was kind of gone as it all felt more like an obligation instead of something that really was planned all along. It's good that things concluded and maybe a US version that start from scratch might be somethig that revives the series. Right now, I'm mainly looking forward to September 25th when the new season of Alice in Borderland will be released!
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