None of us, I hope, will ever find ourselves deciding between saving ourselves and yanking someone away from execution by laser.

But I suspect it’s precisely such no-win dilemmas that propelled the Japanese dystopian survival thriller Alice In Borderland into a global Netflix sensation.

With Season 3 landing on Sep 25, I binged the first two instalments before watching a media preview of the new episodes – and quickly remembered why this gory, violent and surprisingly contemplative series had me hooked in the first place.

For the uninitiated, the show follows a disaffected gamer Arisu (Kento Yamazaki), who’s thrown into a deadly parallel version of Tokyo. He’s forced to survive by competing with strangers in brutal games that test intelligence, agility, psychology and teamwork.

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