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Attention, players: This article contains spoilers for "Squid Game" season 3.

Netflix's "Squid Game" comes to an end with season 3, and the show pulls out all the stops on its bloody path toward the series finale. Not that it ever had any other options, because the show runs on escalating thrills: The games in "Squid Game" season 2 were just as sadistic as anything season 1 had to offer, and individual games -- the elaborate Mingle in particular -- showed just how big the show has become, with set designs that go above and beyond to amaze the viewer. 

The high bar set by season 2 left "Squid Game" season 3 with the challenge of doing even better in order to impress the viewing audience, and the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) and his organization have done just that. Since this particular round of games is divided over two seasons, "Squid Game" season 3 only features three major games.

“Squid Game” Season 3 has entered the arena for its last round of games, at least for the viewing world to see. But as we close the final chapter, we have to reflect on all the lives that were lost.

While some deaths were heartbreaking, there were others that were, well … kind of overdue. From vicious stabbings, tragic falls to death and applauded acts of bravery, Season 3 of “Squid Game” did not disappoint, and showed that there just might be some hope left for the human species.

Here’s every major character who died in Season 3.

Park Sung-hoon as Cho Hyun-ju in Squid Game S2 (Credit: No Ju-han/Netflix) Cho Hyun-ju/Player 120

Sadly, Cho Hyun-ju/Player 120 (Park Sung-hoon) was the first major character to go this season. In Episode 2, Hyun-ju put her life on the line to save the lives of her allies Kim Jun-hee/Player 222 (Jo Yu-ri), and elderly competitor...

This post contains spoilers for "Squid Game" season 3, episode 5, "○△□."

After season 2 of "Squid Game" premiered, one of the popular theories to emerge online concerned Player 100, aka Im Jeong-dae, played by Song Young-chang. The theory goes that Player 100, a deeply annoying and cynical old man who keeps pushing for the games to continue, is actually a VIP.

This would mean that Player 100 knows more about the games than he's let on, and it would help explain his callous attitude towards the loss of life around him. The twist would've also fleshed out his backstory, which involves him being over eight billion won in debt; it's hard to even owe that much money in the first place unless you had a lot of it to begin with.

The popularity of this theory has less to do with realism and more to do with the thematic implications of such a twist. A former...

This post contains spoilers for Netflix's "Squid Game."

Sometime last year, season 2 of "Squid Game" ended on a baffling cliffhanger, adding fuel to the anticipation surrounding its third and final season. This anxious curiosity mostly revolved around Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), who led a failed rebellion against the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) and his recruits — an act that inadvertently led to several deaths, including that of his friend, Jung-bae (Lee Seo-hwan). Season 3 picks things up right where they left off, mapping the aftermath of a botched rebellion that further exposes the cruelty of the game organizers. While a severely traumatized Gi-hun simmers in guilt, his dwindling allies struggle to hold on to their will to persist, as they're surrounded by callous players driven solely by greed and bloodlust. As expected, no amount of bloodshed is severe enough for these players to vote against the deathmatch, and they do so without remorse.

There are some series that work so well as one-and-dones that it’s hard to imagine what could possibly be gained creatively from pressing onward with a second season. Sometimes, those seemingly unnecessary renewals nevertheless yield pleasant surprises: Barry got only darker and weirder as it went on, White Lotus successfully expanded itself into a globe-trotting anthology, and so on.

Other times, however, that initial skepticism proves justified. The second round of Netflix’s South Korean sleeper hit Squid Game was a thudding step down from the first, rehashing most of the same themes and story beats at a slower pace with fewer insights. But it also delivered only half a season’s worth of plot, planting bombs to be detonated later and then cutting off just as things got truly intense. A reasonable person might have hoped a third season could provide enough payoff to make at least some of those stumbles worthwhile.

Warning! This article contains major Spoilers for Squid Game season 2's ending!Player 044 proves to be one of the most enigmatic new characters in Squid Game season 2, with the mysteries shrouding her role being all the more intriguing the notion that she may have predicted Gi-hun’s ultimate fate. Picking up two years after the time-jump from Squid Game season 1’s ending, season 2’s Games introduce a variety of new personalities competing against Gi-hun, including some lovable allies and worrying adversaries. Though the backstories and motivations of most recurring players are understood by Squid Game’s season 2 finale, that isn’t the case for Player 044, aka Seon-nyeo.

Played in Squid Game’s ensemble cast by Chae Cook-hee, Player 044’s first few moments on screen indicate that she’s going to play a complex role in the Games. Offputting and somewhat of a wild card, she enters with an ego and...

In his directorial debut, screenwriter Kim Jee-woon collaborated with actors Song Kang-ho and Choi Min-sik in the comedy drama with a touch of horror “The Quiet Family” back in 1998. Reunited with Song as the lead actor, “The Foul King” was his second feature which, besides winning him the Best Director award at the 2001 Milan International Film Festival, it also won the Audience Award at the Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy.

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Basically a comedy and a feel-good sports film, this production sees Song Kang-ho in his first leading role, playing pushover and underperforming financial advisor Im Dae-ho who is forever late for work. In return, he has to put up with his power-hungry boss who headlocks and lectures him everyday. In general, he is very much a loser, trapped by his work and society, who still lives with...

Set to a wonderfully colourful, culturally rich backdrop of Korean heritage sites, “Collectors” should have the tools to be a uniquely interesting, original adventure film. It will certainly be a hit with festival goers, but despite boasting a flashy, showy script and charismatic cast, Park Jung-bae’s directorial debut fails in standing out from a clustered crowd of similar genre flicks, and veers too close to western counterparts such as “Raiders of the Lost Ark” in how it is packaged.

“Collectors” is screening at Fantasia Film Festival

At the heart of the movie is Kang Dong-gu (Lee Je-hoon), an expert in tomb raiding and money hungry individual. Harbouring the surprising skill of being able to track an artefact’s location through tasting soil, he finds himself a wanted man by both the authorities and shady businessmen after stealing a rare golden Buddha statue. Mainly, though, he finds himself the target...

“They were fighting like they were making love.” An appropriate line from “Duelist” by Lee Myung-se, the visionary director behind “Nowhere To Hide” (1999)

Undercover detectives Ahn (Ahn Sung-ki) and Namsoon (Ha Ji-won) are on the trail of a counterfeiter gang. A masked swordsman who had been performing in a street circus suddenly finishes the act by killing a government official who had been carrying the kingdom’s currency metal cast. A duel between Namsoon and the swordsman sees a piece of their mask cut off. As the detectives investigate, suspicion falls on local official Song (Song Young-chang) which is confirmed when the swordsman now known as Sad Eyes (Kang Dong-won) is seen to enter Song’s residence. From here a series of encounters between Namsoon and Sad Eyes lead to a growing attraction despite being on opposing sides.

The opening 20 minutes are a frantic mix of cinematic trickery.