Squid Game takes its final bow... but is this game over for good?

Jennifer Cartwright on Squid Game season 3

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Red light. Green light. The words of a classic childhood game are difficult to hear without thinking about Squid Game iconography - green tracksuits, masked guards, lots and lots of blood.

The South Korean thriller is a brutal criticism of how capitalism encourages sacrificing your morality to survive. Ironically, it has also been a capitalist smash-hit success.

In Squid Game, players compete in childhood games to win money and not lose their life. Each player's life is equated to 100,000,000 (around £53,645) and the more players that die the higher the cash prize.

For players, dying in the games is a more attractive prospect than living in financial uncertainty on the outside and so despite their trauma, or perhaps because of it, they keep playing.

I don't think Squid Game ever needed a season two, let alone a season three. I loved the first season but I felt that as the games ended, the story naturally had reached its close. But of course, Netflix were never going to let their most-watched show of all time only have one season.