Squid Game season 2 excels in some ways and not in others, fattened up with what feels like filler content, which is not great for a season only seven episodes long.

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 round two.

The second season of Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ presents an array of Korean childhood games that the participants have to win to receive an amount of money that is beyond their wildest dreams. While these are children’s games,