But the hit Korean-language Netflix series is already facing criticism for failing to live up to the promise of its powerful original run. Media experts say it shouldn’t come as any surprise: Call it the curse of the second season.

The following contains spoilers from all seven episodes of Squid Game Season 2, now streaming on Netflix. Player 456 — and all of Squid Game Season 2, for that matter — went out guns a-blazing, in a white-knuckle finale that had you on the edge of your seat,

Squid Game recently concluded its second season, comprising seven episodes on Netflix. The second installment of Squid Game proved to be more bloody and gruesome than the first, with a burgeoning rebellion headed by the protagonist Gi-hun being crushed brutally by the Front Man and his scions.