In Squid Sport: The Problem, viewers have been launched to (and rapidly grew to become enamored with) the mom/son duo of Participant 302/LeAnn Wilcox Plutnicki and Participant 301/Trey Plutnicki. So it feels pure to surprise in the event that they have been the inspiration for Squid Sport‘s fictional mom/son duo featured in season two of the Netflix collection.
Nicely, surprise no extra, as a result of — apparently — it’s little greater than coincidence. In a brand new interview with Leisure Weekly, creator Hwang Dong-hyuk put to mattress any hypothesis about that notion, explaining all of it away because of the timing of his personal writing course of. Not solely that, however he additionally pointed to a pair of gamers in season one because the impetus to drive a deeper stake into the guts of the viewers in season two with Geum-ja, a.okay.a. Participant 149 (performed by Kang Ae-sim), and her son Yong-sik, a.okay.a. Participant 007 (performed by Yang Dong-geun).
Please be aware: there will probably be main spoilers forward for what occurs in Squid Sport season two should you learn on — you could have been warned!
What Impressed The Mom/Son Storyline in ‘Squid Sport’ Season Two?
In accordance with Hwang, with regards to the inclusion of Geum-ja and her son Yong-sik in season two, the parallel with the fact present is merely coincidental. “I wrote the script sooner than when the present The Problem got here out,” he mentioned, “so it would not make sense even chronologically to be impressed by that.”
The creator and director then pointed to a season one character dynamic that he wished to make much more intense: that of the husband-and-wife duo who performed marbles collectively. “These of you who watched intently will know there is a married couple that appeared in season 1 the place the couple performs marbles collectively,” Hwang defined, “after which the husband survives after which finally ends up taking his personal life. I assumed that the Host [played by O Yeong-su] and the Entrance Man [played by Lee Byung-hun] could be the kind of individuals who would intentionally carry shut individuals collectively inside the identical sport to place them in a take a look at and see what occurs to them in these excessive circumstances.”
He went on so as to add:
“This time round, I wished to herald an excellent nearer pair. And simply having the Host look and observe, ‘How will they survive? How will they transfer on to every sport?’ I assumed that may be a really intriguing addition.”
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And anybody who has watched season two up to now will seemingly agree: the inclusion of Geum-ja and Yong-sik has undoubtedly ratcheted up the strain of that cliffhanger ending. And provided that Geum-ja was able to sacrifice her life to avoid wasting her son (one thing that he was not-at-all prepared to do in return, as we noticed within the Mingle sport), their twin survival on the finish of all of this appears like an impossible-to-achieve comfortable ending for a collection that has by no means actually been about that. All of us keep in mind when Seong Gi-hun (performed by Lee Jung-jae) determined to not reunite together with his daughter on the finish of season one and as an alternative re-join the sport? That might have been a cheerful ending.
In fact, perhaps season three will present us with a cheerful ending we so crave. However that may additionally imply the demise and dismantling of our society’s capitalistic, oligopoly-inclined tendencies — and, effectively! It is definitely a pleasant thought; we’ll say that.
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Squid Sport – Season 2
The second season of the hit South Korean thriller on Netflix. A whole bunch of cash-strapped contestants settle for an invite to compete in youngsters’s video games for a tempting prize, however the stakes are lethal.
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December 26, 2024
- Primary Style
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Thriller
- Community
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Netflix
- Writers
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Hwang Dong-hyuk
- Administrators
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Hwang Dong-hyuk