Proceed with caution; Spoilers for the end of “Squid Game” season 2 lie ahead.
The second season of writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk’s acclaimed – and incredibly popular – Netflix series Squid Game is officially here, and the third season, will premiere sometime in 2025, according to Hwang. What can viewers expect based on the season finale “Friend or Foe”…and what about it? solid Cliffhanger?
Let’s look back for a moment. At the start of the second season, the winner of the games shown on-screen in season 1, Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), remains in South Korea despite the game’s frontman Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun). , urging him to head to America and leave his time in the game behind him. He doesn’t – and when the series jumps forward two years, we learn that Gi-hun has spent the entire time trying to track down the frontman and stop the games once and for all (due to all the murders involved ). After his plan to install a GPS tracker into a fake tooth goes awry, Gi-hun is stuck with the games, but has an advantage: he’s done this before.
Just like in Season 1, there are many petty squabbles among the 456 participants over the enormous amount of prize money, but in the midst of this, Gi-hun manages to rally a small and loyal group of fellow players to rebel against the guards in the process Frontman himself. As the players split into two factions – those who want to continue playing and those who want the game to end – Gi-hun and a few others think they have overtaken a handful of guards, just that the entire mission ended in complete disaster. Where does Gi-hun end up and how will the third season of the series begin?
Gi-hun ends Squid Game Season 2 in grave danger
At the end of Season 2 of Squid Game, which consists of seven episodes — Chaos breaks out in the players’ quarters between the “X” faction (who want to leave the game, which includes Gi-hun) and the “O” faction, who want to stay and call it a day… and here ” Pandaemonium” means they all start fighting to the death. (This is partly out of anger, partly because everyone (The player knows that if you reduce the number of participants, the prize pot will grow.) Gi-hun and his small army are all hiding under the bunks, essentially pitting other players against each other, all the while waiting The guards come and break through the massive fight. When the guards arrive, Gi-hun and his friends overpower some guards, steal their weapons, and open fire on the masked oppressors in pink suits.
There is one solid Problem with this plan without Gi-hun knowing about it. It is one of his “allies” who poses as player 001 actually In-ho, also known as the frontman. (Squid Game fans will remember that the show basically did the exact same thing in Season 1, so that’s…nice.) During the fight, In-ho acts like he’s on Gi-hun’s side , but when he breaks up with Gi-hun, In-ho fakes his own death, puts on his mask again and kills Gi-hun’s closest friend Jung-bae (Lee Seo-hwan) right in front of Gi-hun’s eyes. The show then fades to black (apart from a post-credits scene), so it’s relatively safe to assume that Season 3 will pick up right where Season 2 left off.
In Season 3 of Squid Game, Gi-hun has to deal with a huge discovery
It’s reasonable to assume that by the start of Squid Game’s third season, Gi-hun will learn that the frontman is actually the guy who up until that point had been his ally in the game itself. The would I’m mimicking the twist in Season 1 pretty directly (although the show has already repeated that twist verbatim, so apparently anything is possible), but it definitely feels like Season 2 is building up to that big reveal. Then again, perhaps the frontman finds another way to punish Gi-hun and keep him in the dark about his identity – aside from Jung-bae, Gi-hun’s other friends in the game are still alive (as far as we know). you know) – so that the frontman can stay masked, not reveal that he is actually Hwang In-ho, and simply take out the rest of Gi-hun’s allies. (That would be really cruel for the audience, but this is Squid Game, so that wouldn’t exactly be unprecedented.)
It also follows In-ho’s brother as Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon), a detective who is looking for In-ho and the exact location of the games. He doesn’t really get anywhere, but his lackluster storyline will hopefully get him back in the action in Season 3. At this point, one thing seems somewhat certain: Gi-hun won’t be joining the games casually as a new player third Time, and the series definitely feels like it’s shifting its conflict to a showdown between Gi-hun and the frontman.
“Squid Game” Season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.
