Entertainment‘Squid Game’ Season 3 Review: This Brutal Final Installment Takes Everything That Works, Cranks It Up to 100, and Then Goes Even Further

Squid Game is quite the contradiction. It’s a show with international appeal and an intriguing premise based around a style of acting and filming that is very much Korean. As a viewer who’s watched her fair share of Asian dramas and, specifically, K-dramas, the first season of Squid Game did not reinvent the wheel. It’s not the first time we’ve had a “last-man-standing” type story; by now, everyone knows how influential the 2000 Battle Royale was and franchises like The Hunger Games, but it was Squid Game‘s commentary on social inequality and human desperation that really spoke to audiences. In a world struggling with COVID, only a year after Parasitewon the Academy Award for Best Picture, Squid Game was primed for success.