I must say, I'm a fan of Alice in Borderland since season 1 because besides liking survivor games, the concept of this drama is so interesting and well thought. I really liked the concept of the playing cards and the characters being inspired by Alice in Wonderland. And it gets even cooler when we finally find out about the whole truth in the last episode, everything just matched and it didn't seemed forced.

Basically, the characters we see in the game were involved in an accident caused by a meteor. Because of that accident they were stuck between life and death and they went to borderland. Only those who survived in the game and chose to return to real life, returned to the physical world. The ones who chose to stay, would remain in the borderland and become a game master until they lose to somebody. I actually think that explanation made sense, especially if we think that the characters have been wondering about the value of life since the beginning and whether they wanted to stay in that world or go back to the real world. Also, the writer clearly made a comparative between "wonderland" and "borderland", both being not a real world.

Now let's talk more about the games and the characters in this season. My favorites games definitely were the ones involving Chishiya. I swear it's not because he's my favorite character but I think they were the most interesting games, with the most interesting ideas. But I liked the game with Arisu, Usagi and the little boy too. It was a fun game. I expected a little more about the first games involving Yamapi. I was so excited for his character and don't get me wrong, I like it, it's just that I wished something a little more. Chishiya was my favorite character like I said but the girls literally dominated this season tho, I just loved all of them. They were so brave, charismatic, strong <3 totally badass. Arisu and Usagi chemistry were good as well and it's impossible to not like them too. One of the things I liked in this drama its that we see a little of everyone's life so we can understand the characters better. This make them seem more human, even if we don't like them or their action in the game. (not Niragi tho, its impossible to like him even with his past scenes)

They spend too much time on the big revelation in EP8 but I still appreciated because it seemed like the writer really knew what us, the viewers, hoped it was the final revelation. Would it be a virtual game like Sword Art Online? Would it be really like a survival game with humans betting on them and seeing who would win? Would it all be Arisu's imagination? There were so many possibilities to explain what was going on and it seems that the writer knew that we would think of several different things, so he took advantage of this in the end and played with us. Seriously, I literally believed everything the queen said, every time, because it all sounded reasonable.

But I got to say, IT PISSED ME OFF how Niragi survived in the end, he was a complete trash, I think it was one of the things I disliked the most in the end. Also, I wished we could see all characters reuniting, not only Arisu and Usagi :( But yeah, in general, it was a pretty fun, creative and interesting drama with a lot of interesting and amazing characters as well. I don't know if they will produce a season 3 (the "joker" card made me think they would), but I hope not. I think this season ended well and I'm afraid with a season 3, everything would be too forced.