The third game in Squid Game's new season, 'Mingle,' takes a dark turn as players are forced to make life-or-death decisions in a twisted game of Musical Chairs. The article analyzes the game's mechanics and how they reflect the show's broader themes of morality, desperation, and societal critique.
s Games are the nasty tricks they play with culpability. You might be able to remember, in the back of your head, that the person killing hundreds of people for doing a sub-par job at playing children’s games is the person who cooked this insane system up—or the staff who propagate it, or the soldier who obligingly pulls the trigger in its support.
But in the moment, when you’re staring at another schmuck in a green jumpsuit who just made a decision that kills you? Both of you are going to come away feeling likeAnd thus is it with Mingle, this competition’s third game—which, just like last time around (with Tug-of-war), is the first of the season’s contests with a body count. One of creator/writer/director Hwang Dong-hyuk’s strengths, when assembling a season of this show, is in creating games and rule systems that underline the deeper satirical points he’s hoping to make, and Mingle is a particularly vicious one: Across the opening 20 minutes of “O X”‘s running time, we watch newly forged alliances get mutated, tested, torn apart, slammed back together, and worse. We watch the players make split-second decisions about who’s in and who’s out, with immediate, murderous consequences. And for the first time this year—give or take Thanos’ sociopathic outburst back in “001”—we see players deliberately kill each other in the rush to stay alive. That gets its harshest underline when Jung-bae watches In-ho snap another player’s neck in order to get the number of people in their room down to the mandatory 2. But it was guaranteed from the moment the Organizers transformed the final round into a bloodthirsty version of Musical Chairs, by asking 126 people to fit into 50 rooms in teams of 2. (I’d love to know how much In-ho knows about the Games he’s now undergoing; safe to assume he helped design them, but it’d be interesting if he guessed that final twist just because he’s so in tune with the overall philosophical intent
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