How Squid Game Season 2’s Big Cliffhanger Sets Up Season 3

Please proceed with caution. Spoilers for the ending of “Squid Game” Season 2 are ahead.

The second season of writer-director Hwang Dong-hyuk’s critically acclaimed and incredibly popular Netflix series “Squid Game” has been officially released, with a third season on the way. According to Hwang, it will be first broadcast in 2025.. Based on the season finale ‘Friend or Foe’, what can viewers expect…and what about it? large scale Cliffhanger?

Let’s back up a bit. At the start of season 2, the winner of the game seen on screen in season 1, Song Ki-hoon (Lee Jeong-jae), remains in South Korea despite the game’s frontman, Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun). , urged him to decamp to America and leave his time in the game behind. He isn’t. And as the series moves forward two years, we learn that Ki-hoon has spent that time hunting down the frontman and calling off the game once and for all (as all the murders are involved). Ki-hoon’s plan to implant a GPS tracker in his dentures fails, and Ki-hoon becomes addicted to the game, but there is one advantage. he’s done this before.

As in season 1, there are plenty of petty fights between the 456 contestants over huge prize money, but in the midst of all this, Ki-hoon corrals a few loyal fellow players and forces them to rebel against the guards. succeed in That process, the frontman himself. With the players split into two factions (those who want to continue playing and those who want to quit the game), Ki-hoon and a few others think they’ve outrun a few guards, but the entire mission ends in disaster. Become. . So where will Ki-hoon end up and how will this set up the show’s third season?

At the end of season 2 of the seven-episode “Squid Game,” chaos erupts in the player’s quarters between the “X” faction (including Ki-hoon, who wants to leave the game) and the “O” faction. will break out. “Factions, they want to stay and finish… and ‘havoc’ here means they all start fighting to the death. (This is partially out of pure anger and partially every Players know that reducing the number of participants increases the prize pot. ) Ki-hoon and his small army all hide under bunks and basically let the other players play the match, all the while waiting for the guards to come in and break them out. Start a huge battle. When the guards arrived, Ki-hoon and his friends overpowered several of the guards, took their guns, and opened fire on the masked oppressors in pink suits.

There is one large scale Unbeknownst to Ki-hoon, there is a problem with this plan. One of his “allies” pretending to be Player 001. In-ho is actually known as the frontman. (If you’re a fan of “Squid Game,” you’ll remember that the show basically did this exact thing in season 1. I mean, it’s… awesome.) Throughout the fight, Ino Acts as if she is on Ki-hoon’s side, but when they break up, due to her relationship with Ki-hoon, In-ho fakes her own death, puts on the mask again, and in front of Ki-hoon, Ki-hoon’s best friend Jeong-bae (Lee) Seohwan) is killed. The show then takes a dark turn (save for a post-credits scene), so it’s relatively safe to assume that season 3 will pick up where season 2 left off.

It’s reasonable enough to think that as Season 3 of “Squid Game” begins, Ki-hoon will learn that the frontman is actually the man who was on his side in the game itself up until this point. that will do It’s a pretty direct imitation of season 1’s twist (although the show has already repeated that twist verbatim, so apparently anything goes), but it’s certainly true that season 2 is gearing up for this big reveal. It feels like it was built. On the other hand, the frontman may have found another way to punish Ki-hoon and keep Ki-hoon’s true identity a secret. With the exception of Jong-bae, Ki-hoon’s other friends in the game are still alive (as far as we know) — so the frontman remains masked and reveals that he is Hwang In-ho. You can easily target the rest of Ki-hoon’s allies without revealing them. (This is extremely cruel to the audience, but this is a “squid game,” so it’s not unheard of.)

There are also issues with the fact that In-ho’s older brother, Hwang Joon-ho (Wi Ha-joon), is a detective searching for In-ho, and the specific location of the game. He hasn’t exactly gotten anywhere, but hopefully his lackluster storyline brings him back into action in season 3. At this point, one thing feels somewhat certain: Ki-hoon won’t be coming into the game casually as a new player in Season 3. third As time goes on, it feels like the series will definitely shift the focus of the conflict to a showdown between Ki-hoon and the frontman.

“Squid Game” Season 2 is currently available on Netflix.