Squid Game
South Korean survival thriller created, written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk. Desperately indebted contestants compete in deadly versions of children's games for a massive cash prize. Lee Jung-jae stars as Seong Gi-hun. The series comprises three seasons released on Netflix between September 2021 and June 2025.
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Squid Game Review: Three Seasons of Brutal Social Satire That Eventually Repeats Its Own Rules
8/10 — Squid Game delivers an almost flawless first season, an iconic visual identity and a critique of inequality that reaches far beyond its deadly-game premise. Lee Jung-jae and Lee Byung-hun bring genuine humanity and ideological conflict to the final confrontation. Yet the complete series loses precision in seasons two and three through repetition, slow external investigations, caricatured VIPs and increasingly excessive violence. Its conclusion remains faithful to Hwang Dong-hyuk's themes without fully recovering the power of the original. A landmark series, imperfect as a whole but impossible to ignore.