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Squid Game Season 3 Review — Netflix Megahit Returns for a Brutal, Chilling Final Series

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA, JUN 27 – The final season explores Seong Gi-hun's dark return to the deadly games with brutal challenges and major character deaths, viewed by nearly 600 million globally, highlighting capitalism's critique.

  • Netflix debuted the concluding third installment of Squid Game on June 27, wrapping up the journey of lead character Seong Gi-hun through six new episodes.
  • The show creator Hwang Dong-hyuk split the originally single story into two parts, deciding to end the series after this intense final season.
  • Season three continues after a failed rebellion, introduces a newborn contestant, and features deadly games like a violent hide-and-seek and a giant jump rope challenge.
  • Cate Blanchett appears in a surprise cameo recruiting players for a U.S. version, signaling a new American storyline and potential franchise expansion.
  • The season ends with bittersweet closure, exploring themes of humanity, broken beliefs, and exploitation, while leaving the finale's meaning open to interpretation.
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Deadly games and class struggle: The South Korean Netflix hit goes into the third and last season and manages to ask serious questions at high tension. A worthy and timely end to a hype. Usually the greed of man wins. Not only in fictional series, but also with their producers. That the once most successful Netflix series of all times (now slid to place 2, see facts left), so the "success cow" is not milked until the wave, but "Squid Game" ends …

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Squid Game, among the most viral phenomena that Netflix has managed to pack, is destined to end Friday, June 27, with the debut on the platform of the third and last chapter.Three seasons, then nothing more. Only the promise, vague and never confirmed, of a spin-off could keep the morale of those who, in recent years, lost their senses behind Squid Game, Korea, a brutal violence, daughter of the survival instinct and, therefore, potentially intr…

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REVIEW. We need to stop pretending that “Squid game” is relevant entertainment. With season three, the series is finally coming to an end.

·Stockholm, Sweden
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The most-watched Netflix series ever remains suspenseful and dystopian. It would be nice if ‘Squid Game’ could serve as a warning of how we don’t want to end up.

·Netherlands
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