Saram-eun...

Season 2, Part 1 and 2, feel rushed and appear to have been adapted for the US market. This is a waste of what was a promising story. The ending was terrible in every conceivable way. I'm so disappointed that this could have ended so poorly. Characters were stripped of their complexity, and the dialogue felt unnatural. The suspense was gone, replaced by lazy writing and predictable twists. It felt like fan service for a completely different audience. What once had depth and meaning has now turned into a shallow imitation. A total betrayal of what made Season 1 so impactful. Let's continue milking the cow!

They remind us about the sand snakes from GOT. Characters that are meant to add dimension but ultimately end up annoying and add nothing to the plot.

As for this season, since the concept isn't fresh it was dependent upon the pace and honestly it was slow. The concept of the games were nice but dragged on for so long that it lost steam. Out of all the games, Hide & Seek was the best one as it showed the main character being exposed to his dark side.

But bringing in a baby so the main character can show how noble he is was stretching it to a soap opera level and not needed.

But I am glad I watched it; though the freshness of the first season was lost.

They dragged the ending a bit to much to tie up the loose ends in the end. WAY to much time was wasted with that over 20 minutes what could have gone to explore more of the games and what happened to it when the police arrived. I do think that the last scenes in la were really good i still believe that most of the rest of the 6 months later part was a big waste of time and totally unnecessarily. Although a pretty good ending it just feels like it could have been way better so i think the episode deserves and a rating somewhere between 8-9/10 because it was not a perfect ending in my opinion. --

There is no deeper exploration of human nature than what we already saw in season one. The characters, the plot, and the games themselves, are just variations on a theme.

It's entertaining, but it's not the same world class psychological horror mixed with political satire that originally broke new ground. The sell of the unexplored island, the VIPs, the history of the games was why people came back, but that's clearly been saved for yet another spin off.

The ending was going to be cliche whether he won and survived or martyred himself for his message. The realism went out the window when he went back into the games, so everything since was always going to be contrived.

These last two series are just an excuse to get him playing the games again so Netflix can make bank. It's weak characters, filler, more time seeing players vote than play games. Whatever plot there can be is only third priority after that.

The message that there is no justice in this world, and it will take your life to try and fight that, is realistic and makes the ending fine. The season was entertaining enough, so again fine. Not time wasted, but not the level we hoped for.

I don't think there is much point in reiterating what others have written before me as I can largely confirm the negative points. The VIPs are cartoon villains - again - cringeworthy at best. The absence of logic and convoluted mess makes this the worst ending possible to one of the best series in the recent years. At this point it feels like a cash grab, an excuse to vindicate a likely American-based spin-off. No essential questions were answered. Multiple interesting storylines devolved into nothingness. This season felt like it's building up to something big, yet with every new episode it felt more and more like an elaborate running gag.