Not solely has Netflix confirmed that Squid Recreation: The Problem season 2 is about to air on November 4, 2025, nevertheless it’s additionally swiftly followed-up with the announcement that season 3 can also be underway. This comes two weeks after the hit Ok-drama wrapped up for good with its personal third season, which ended with an surprising cameo which will (or might not) lead into David Fincher’s American remake.
In 2023, Netflix answered the query all of us had on our lips – how would all of us fare if Squid Recreation was actual? It put 456 real-life gamers to the take a look at, competing for the biggest money prize in actuality TV historical past ($4.56 million). Video games resembling Purple Mild, Inexperienced Mild and Dalgona carried over from the hit Netflix sequence, whereas new video games, resembling Battleships, had been substituted for genuinely deadly ones, resembling Tug of Battle.
Netflix has already informed us to anticipate “new video games and new guidelines,” with logic telling us every of the primary three seasons of The Problem ought to replicate the identical fictional sequence. If that’s the case, Squid Recreation: The Problem season 3 already has an enormous downside on its fingers with its most perilous recreation of all.
Squid Recreation season 3’s Leap Rope scene can be virtually not possible to duplicate in The Problem
In fact I’m speaking about Leap Rope, which appeared in episodes 3 and 4 of Squid Recreation season 3. Within the episode, 16 gamers had been eradicated with solely 8 passing, together with Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) managing to hold Kim Jun-hee’s (Jo Yu-ri’s Participant 222) child over safely. The principles are easy: cross from one facet of a suspended path to the opposite whereas two big robots wield a rotating soar rope throughout its path. There’s a spot in the midst of the pathway, making this barely extra perilous than season 1’s Tug of Battle. Groups had been on two suspended platforms of this, with an enormous guillotine chopping the rope when one staff misplaced.
Squid Recreation: The Problem season 1 did handle to duplicate Glass Stepping Stones, with gamers falling to their ‘deaths’ whereas crossing a equally suspended bridge made out of pretend glass. Nevertheless, it may’t be in comparison with Leap Rope, which has a more in-depth degree of precise hazard to the binned-off Tug of Battle. Specifically, each share one singular trait that makes a real-life model not possible – they’re an absolute well being and security nightmare.
The minute you’ve got sharp issues, flying issues and any a part of a recreation the place gamers danger critical damage, there must be a Plan B. It may be among the best streaming companies round, however even Netflix received’t need to danger a lawsuit only for the sake of replicating the Ok-drama scene by scene. The safer choice is to introduce a brand-new recreation no one is anticipating, which provides extra causes for subscribers to maintain tuning in.
Then there’s the actual fact even the forged of Squid Recreation season 3 filmed the Leap Rope scenes utilizing CGI. The robots are inexperienced display screen, the suspended bridge is definitely non-existent, and actually, it’s simply Lee Jung-jae making his personal legs wobble whereas his ft are firmly planted on the bottom.
Are we prone to see Leap Rope in Squid Recreation: The Problem? I say no. And contemplating Battleships was my favorite recreation within the actuality TV contest, I’m prepared for some surprising change.
