After all, Squid Game’s magic is in its moral quandaries, writ cartoonishly large in the savage challenges it sets its contestants. Last season’s downfall was in taking too long to deliver that delicious, horrifying formula. The good news is, this series meets us at its apex, with a new focus on familial ties to boot. The bad news? Sometimes, those ties make no sense at all.
Yang Dong-geun as Park Yong-sik, left, and Kang Ae-sim as Jang Geum-ja (Photo: No Ju-han/Netflix)
While Squid Game has always relished the push-pull of people’s base instincts versus what is “right”, the presence of a defenceless baby sends its characters spinning beyond all reason. One player, Hyun-ju, dutifully dies defending the infant during the game – noble, if a bit OTT – while another, Mrs Jang, murders her own son to stop him killing the new mother.
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Gi-hun is soon caught in the infant’s orbit too, swearing to protect her when Jun-Hee dies. Again, if you can buy a character who has suddenly decided to prize the life of a stranger’s baby over his own, then the resulting drama is riveting. Just imagine how much more thrilling the challenges are when Gi-hun’s competing with a newborn strapped to him! If not, you might find yourself flagging by this point.
Such squirmy, breath-taking moral dilemmas are where Squid Game excels – arguably, it should stick to them. The season’s incongruous acts of selflessness are presumably supposed to illustrate a higher human nature, one at odds with the grubby, desperate violence brought out by the game. And while that idea doubtless adds richness to the drama, it’s too often undermined by a lack of subtlety. People certainly do have the capacity for extraordinary selflessness as well as staggering cruelty, but “baby!” simply isn’t nuanced enough as justification for it, let alone in multiple characters at once.
Part of what made Squid Game’s first incarnation so riveting was its unflinching gaze at the darkest parts of ourselves. In season three, the plot has lost some of that nerve, reaching for redemption that feels slapdash and therefore, sometimes, hollow. If you can forgive such muddled character motivations, there’s more than enough gripping action to compensate – just don’t look too hard at the robo-baby.
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