Squid Game Season 2 is the best example of "The Idiot Plot" I've seen in recent memory. Where all the characters in it have to be impossibly stupid for the drama to work. (Every twist and character death is easy to see coming.) And aside from liking some of the actors. There's very little to recommend about it. It's far less compelling than Season One was. Every character arc and plot thread introduced goes unresolved, for what will very likely be a terrible 3rd season.

And an example of that blatant stupidity, is in the third game where it's trying to be a "999" (The game), where there's a limited number of rooms. (Fifty of the fuckers.) And you need to go into those rooms in pairs of a specific/basic number. 

But it instead becomes closer to that one Saw trap with the four giant spaces that FIVE whole people needed to go into. And it was impossible to believe that so many fucking people died here, when the amount of rooms (versus the people who needed to go in them) only became relevant at the very end. So your only conclusion in the last few episodes is that these adults cannot count. 

I really do hope there's some better television, movies, and anime on the horizon. Because 2024 was *not* a strong year for media.