Chinguwa jeok

First off, I want to say I never write reviews for shows or movies or anything. The only reason I'm writing this one is to express how disappointed I am with this finale.

Season 2 was definitely a downgrade from season 1. Don't get me wrong, this season was not bad. It had great moments and great new characters, but in my opinion did not live up to the hype that was built up for the last few years. This finale, compared to the season 1's, did not feel like a finale in the slightest.

I understand the final season will be coming out next year to wrap up major storylines that were left unfinished in this season, but to end the season like this feels very abrupt and sudden. I sat watching the end of this episode wondering if the last two episodes were going to premiere in the upcoming weeks.

TLDR: Decent season, unfinished/abrupt ending.

I'm sorry but not like the rest of the season, the last episode was extremely bad and unfortunately you realize that the series creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk only had 6 months to write the second season. The revolution or the fight at the end consisted of little fed or people who never held a gun and on the other side soldiers or people who didn't have much effort (like some games where you have to fight against others) in the last days. Also, the revolutionaries are suddenly extremely good marksmen who benefit from the fact that you don't think about turning off the lights in the room with all the stairs, after all, they have to come to you.

The season ends really abruptly without any real payoff.

On its own this is a good episode but it feels like there would an episode after it but there's not. It feels like the writers didn't know where to stop to carry on for season 3 so they just cut very suddenly. It's still a good episode and I enjoyed it but it didn't feel like a season finale in the slightest.

If they added an extra 30 minutes to the episode to make it complete I think it would be rated higher.

It doesn't even really feel like a set up episode it just looks like they forgot a few episodes to release after and stopped it because they needed somewhere to start season 3.

The start of the season was written good but the final two episodes specially the seventh was rushed. It's not bad but decent and decent shouldn't be the level of the most successful series ever. I expected it to become a tough season to tell a fulfilled story and I really enjoyed it but the finale was short. It felt like they recorded more material but decided to cut it out and work it out for Season 3. Which is another point I'd like to talk cause at this point Season 2 & 3 don't really exist. It feels more like Squid Game 2 Pt. I & Pt. II.

The biggest issue is for me the subplot it's completely ignored and dragged. It appears for a really short time which is huge failure. They should've made the 9 episodes and let them find their target or at least get to find out the culprit in their own crew.

For the people that still think it's about the game show and who's gonna win it: if this was the case that would be a recycled story and no extended and meaningful addition to the series. Squid Game is about society and how the human who participate for these games deal with depression, desperation and who's willing to go over all limits to reach their goal cause they feel obligated to do so. On the other side the operator and its recruits and VIP's ( another critic point btw we haven't seen them again like in Season 1 ) who prefer to get entertained to hedge bets, laugh and have a good time while watching people fighting for their lives.

Our main protagonist wants to break this traditional event for once and forever but it seems way too hopeless.

They really need to deliver 9 episodes for the final arc to bring this story to an end. It still has the potential to become one of the most memorable series of all time.

As previously said by many it's not the best ending. We finished episode 7 at 2am and decided to sleep and continue it the next night, only to realise after having made the popcorn that we had in fact already finished the season without realising it.

Putting it down to Korean vs western media and crossing our fingers that the wait will pay off in the end (also sometimes it's nice not to have everything tied up in a little bow - this truely was a first for us)

The gunfight was too long but I put that down to lazy writing and the fact that they want to keep the bar low so that they can blow us away with season 3.