'Squid Game' limps

LET DOWN: MOMENTS OF TERROR MUCH WEAKER

- Hein Kaiser

k, so the final season of Squid Game should have been one of television's most anticipated series. The second season had momentum, at least, but come the third installment and the show's end landed up being somewhat droll, somewhat glitter, but there's no peat. No bite. Just a feeling that the story ran out of depth despite glimmers of it throughout.

At least there are some great and hold your breath kind of games introduced in the season.

But almost like the first game, with which the season kicks off, where the ordeal is unusually long, the third and final installment doesn't quite know where it's going after the first third and before the final episode.

After the second season's violent messiness, the show takes it a giant leap forward into bizarre land.

A new player enters the game, a player that doesn't speak, never okayed their participation and at the end of the day, challenged in the most unusual way when joining in the hard task survival across the games.