Expecting a definitive answer may have been a foolish expectation to have for “Alice in Borderland,” a series that revels in the in-between.

Characters engaged in the show’s death games are neither entirely heroic nor villainous as they make decisions out of self-preservation that spell doom for their fellow players. And of course the very name of Borderland points to the purgatory-like nature of the realm, not existing in the real world nor in the afterlife. Therefore, when the series began teasing its third season with the promise of meeting the Joker – the presumed final boss running the show in Borderland – the person who showed up was not the Joker after all . . . or was he?

After Arisu (Kento Yamazaki) wins the games and refuses to join Borderland as a citizen – for the second time

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