Although Season 1 of the "squid game" was huge critical and rating success, there was one element that inflicted viewers in the wrong way: Vip. In the seventh episode, Vips, a small number (mostly American) rich guys visit the games to look at them. They are rough, stuck, and their jokes were weird and bad. Much of this felt deliberate, as part of writers' comment on how wealth can make you a worse person, but still did not make a pleasant viewing.

Therefore, many fans were released when season 2 of the "squid game" did not include those VIP, but it turns out that they celebrated too quickly. Vip did not appear simply because Season 2 only covered the first few matches of the match; In Season 1, they did not appear to the penultimate game, and it seems to be the case again when we are referring to season 3. In a recent promotional tweet about the third (and probably final) seasonFalling on Netflix on June 27, fans received another look at the VIP room. The focus of the image is on the front man, but one of the masked VIPs can be seen in the background.

Get ready for the last game. Here's your first glance at Squid Game Season 3 photos, premiering June 27. #Nextonnetflix pic.twitter.com/3j8yuaocck

- Game with squid (@squidgame) January 30, 2025

It is clear that regardless of the penultimate event of this year's "squid game", those awkward VIPs will be around again to make their awkward comment. Will they be the same VIP last time, or will we find that the games are attended by a new group of wicked wealthy people every time? And maybe more importantly, will these VIP be omitted more than they were in season 1? Season 2 made a bold choice to give one of the pink guards her own tinted story, the one that really helped shine extra light on how these games work. Perhaps the last season of "squid play" will give VIP a similar treatment.

To be fair to Vip, I have long believed that the reaction of them (especially from American viewers) is just above the top. Yes, the jokes they made were encouraging the eye for most of the time, but it definitely felt deliberate. As the season 1 Ot, Il-Nam (old man, aka player 001) in the final, to be extremely rich, turns you into someone with nothing interesting to speak, and that certainly seems to be the case with Vip. These guys have zero charisma and virtually nothing of interest to say at any moment, which in line with the show's critics by 1%. They are so rich and powerful that they have no one in their lives to tell them that their jokes are bad and because they have no real problems they never needed to develop a lot of personality. (As for whether the intention behind their rack behavior makes it better? It depends on you.)

The other big complaint about Vip is that most of them come across bad actors, and their dialogue feels as if it is written by people who are not so familiar with how Americans are talking. One gets the feeling that the show does not bother to make sure that American actors are good, because they assumed that non-American audiences would not know or worry about whether their lines were unauthorized or poorly delivered.

But as former /film writer Joai-Tran Bui pointed out at the time, this treatment of American characters on the show is very exactly how American shows often treat their Asian characters. Korean "lost" fans had to deal with how The Jinin actor was clearly not KoreanJust as Breaking Bad fans in the Spanish "Breaking Bad" had to make peace with how Gus Fring's actor Was clearly not Chilean. The rest of the world has always had to deal with being seen as unauthorized accents and unlimited dialogue in American films; With "squid playing", many American viewers saw it for the first time. It was not the most beloved experience, surely, but it was still fun to see a show where the tables were turned.