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You thought Squid Game couldn’t get more violent. You were wrong

You thought Squid Game couldn’t get more violent. You were wrong

The third and final season of the Korean drama is not for the squeamish, but it remains a thrilling and utterly original critique of capitalist excess.

Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun in Squid Game. Netflix

Four years after it first left us in existential dread, Squid Game returns for one last act.

The Korean drama, created by Hwang Dong-hyuk, became Netflix’s most-watched show ever, racking up more than 1.65 billion viewing hours. With a body count requiring an Excel spreadsheet to track, who could have predicted the scale of its success?

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