Friday 27, June 2025. Squid Game Season 3 dropped on Netflix “all six final episodes” 3:01 AM on the East Coast. Midnight sharp out west. And by 9:02 in Europe
The internet combusted.
Spoilers? Instant. Screenshots. Fan art. Tears. Theories. Rage. Disbelief. “I can’t breathe” tweets. One X user wrote: “What did I just watch???”
You watched the end. Of an era. Of hope. Maybe of humanity.
Hwang Dong-hyuk Never Wanted This
Let’s rewind real quick.
Hwang Dong-hyuk? He wanted to make a movie. One and done. A raw allegory. A sharp jab at capitalism. Not a global mega-franchise.
But Season 1? Broke every damn metric. 600 million views. Netflix called. Again. And again. The world begged.
Eventually, he agreed. But one non-negotiable: he controls the ending.
And oh man… he really controlled it.
Gi-hun Is Not Your Hero Anymore
The man’s broken. Hollowed out. He didn’t come back to play. He came back to blow it all up.
He’s a man with a mission now: burn the system down. But this system? Stronger. Slimier. More invisible than ever. Weaponized by the ultra-rich. Guarded by the cold, calculated Front Man, still played by the terrifyingly magnetic Lee Byung-hun.
New Faces. No Stereotypes.
Season 3 throws in a wild, deeply human batch of characters:
- A pregnant woman 38 weeks deep
- A trans woman with fists of fury and a heart of gold
- A washed-up crypto bro
- A mute woman everyone calls “The Witch”
- A guy named Thanos — and yeah, he’s weirdly lovable
These aren’t pawns. They’re stories. And the game? It chews them up.
Season 3 – Where the Show Breaks You
Let’s talk trauma.
A psychological meat grinder. Red vs. Blue. “Knives” versus “Keys.” Red team has to eliminate Blue team. That’s the entire game.
Kill or be killed. No twists. No riddles.
And yet? Nothing goes as expected.
Jun-hee’s Birth Scene — Already Iconic
It happens in the middle of a firefight. Chaos. Screams. Jun-hee goes into labor.
And somehow… they make it work. She gives birth , right there. Blood. Sweat. CGI? Practical effects? Who cares. It feels real.
But Hyun-ju, the trans character who’s protected her from the start, dies shielding the baby.
That’s not shock value. That’s heartache.
Gi-hun’s Descent, and His Redemption
Lee Jung-jae? Delivers the performance of his life.
We see Gi-hun unrecognizable. Murderous. He kills Dae-ho in one of the most horrifyingly raw scenes of the whole series. There’s no music. No stylization. Just the sound of bones, and breath, and grief.
But in that darkness? A flicker. A conscience. Gi-hun isn’t a hero anymore. But he isn’t a monster either.
He’s something much scarier: a real man.
The Front Man Reveal , and the Impossible Offer
Everyone wanted it: The Front Man’s identity revealed, face to face with Gi-hun. And yes, it happens. And it’s as intense as you hoped.
In-ho removes the mask. Tells Gi-hun he rejoined the Game as a player , to control it from within. He offers Gi-hun a deal:
“Kill the others. Save the baby. Walk away rich.”
Gi-hun stares. Thinks. Then says the word this show was always heading toward:
“No.”
The Final Round — A Tower of Death
No clever title. Just a climb.
Three towers. One goal: reach the top. But at every level, someone must die. Sacrifices stack like bricks. It’s senseless. Cruel. Bizarrely democratic.
Min-su? Gone after a bogus group vote. Alliances collapse. It comes down to Gi-hun, Myung-gi, and the baby.
Gi-hun kills Myung-gi. But it’s not enough.
He realizes: the game won’t end until he’s the sacrifice.
The Jump
The scene is silent. No soundtrack. No applause.
Gi-hun holds the baby. Looks into the camera. Straight at us. He speaks:
“We are not horses. We are human beings.”
He steps off.
No screams. No slo-mo. Just… stillness.
He didn’t jump for glory. He jumped for resistance.
The Epilogues , Small Sparks in the Dark
The finale doesn’t give you closure. It gives you echoes.
- Baby 222 is declared the winner.
- Jun-ho “the ex-detective, yes, he’s back” takes the child. And the prize money.
- No-eul (the masked soldier) escapes with another player and sets off in search of her daughter.
- Cheol, the younger brother of Sae-byeok from Season 1, finally finds his mother.
- Gi-hun’s daughter receives a strange package from Korea. Inside? His tracksuit. And a letter.
And then… one final shot.
A back alley in New York. Fog. Silence. A woman steps out of the shadows, -> Cate Blanchett, sharp in a white suit, face unreadable.
She hands out red envelopes. Squid Game: America is coming.
Was It a Happy Ending?
Hell no.
It was better.
Squid Game was never about comfort. It’s a mirror held up to greed, power, inequality , all those beautiful lies we buy into every day.
But in the end, it gave us something fragile. A sliver. A spark. A human who says “no.” A baby born into blood , but maybe not into darkness.
And that? That’s the real win.
Useful Links
- Squid Game: Should You Watch in English or Korean?
- Squid Game Season 2 – Official Netflix Page
- How to Watch Squid Game Season 2 Without Seeing Season 1!