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After that ending, we learn the most important lesson of this entire show: Those creeps with a live view must own the Netflix show too.

This episode is an empty wrap-up, neatly folding the story and tucking away its Korean cast. Amounting to little more than a trailer for whatever US spin-off is on the way. As while they did everything in their power to kill time, splitting the second season into two parts and dragging it out for 12 episodes, they somehow managed to not satisfy a single goal of our fine protagonists trying to save the world from those wacky rich people in the viewing box-or no, don't look at them, it was the spooky mask man!

Don't worry about those masked oligarchs, look at the baby. Consume content.

There are plenty more or less serious episodes in this buffet of animations. Some more cute, others artful, depthful, and then there is this. A simple few minute piece of dumb fun.-has nobody heard of a palate cleanser?

Some of the more serious episodes I'd easily say are too serious, or maybe more accurately take themselves 'too seriously'. Playing-out as if they think they're cleverest thing as I sit there, seeing each plot development coming a mile away. An almost distasteful pretension that the story is this microcosm of genius when to me, many are very explicitly 'tech demos' or demonstrations of an art team and far less anything of narrative substance. I'd probably edit the hell out of half these things specifically when it comes to the story direction, given the chance.

I love these lil people episodes exactly for what they are: that bit of fun. And I could even imagine it as a nice lil silly series of its own. If nothing else, I'm content to see one of these nestled between tech demos playing-out like they think they're among the most mysterious or smartest bits of media ever made. This itself is it own tiny transgression, one artful mediums need, before everyone is stuck with their noses up each others bums, smelling their own farts all day.

There's a variable focus when it comes to this show, largely between drama and world building. And with this episode we're veering hard into plain boring drama territory-also some shock factor because shock factor. You can see stuff coming a mile away and this is from someone who didn't even play or know much about the games.

Compared to the first season, along with this spotty second, I can't remember a more boring episode. Whatever people were angry about when it came to the games, I'm starting to see why if The Last of Us abandoned most of the grit and world building of a post-apocalyptic world for contrived character conflict. If a show suddenly stops caring about the world it is set in, why should I?