Note: This story contains spoilers from "Squid Game" Season 2. "Squid Game" was never supposed to last three seasons. Series creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk, who's been working on the series since 2008,

Game on. “Squid Game” Season 2 is now streaming, and some viewers are taking issue with the sophomore installment of the bloody Korean Netflix hit. “The second season of ‘Squid Game’ is a thorough letdown,” wrote a critic for the Hollywood Reporter, adding it “simply doesn’t work.”

In the three years since Squid Game became Netflix’s biggest property, it’s been easy to forget just why it was so popular to begin with. The unflinching story of class conflict that combined iconic visuals,