[Editor’s note: The following article contains spoilers for “Squid Game” Season 2, including the season finale.]
There are cliffhangers, after which there’s “Squid Recreation” Season 2, which left viewers in the course of the video games, in the course of a revolt, and the center of Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) contemporary agony after watching a good friend die in entrance of him.
Viewers should wait one other yr to seek out out what’s subsequent — however that’s nothing in comparison with the three-year wait between Seasons 1 and a pair of. Director Hwang Dong-hyuk filmed the ultimate two installments of Netflix‘s award-winning drama collectively, and knew the ending earlier than even going into manufacturing.
Even so, “Squid Recreation” has quite a bit to wrap up in Season 3, so whereas it’s contemporary: let’s speak about a few of our greatest burning questions for the third and remaining installment.
1. Will Gi-hun ever be taught the Entrance Man’s true id?
One among Season 1’s greatest twists was that the Entrance Man behind the black masks is Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun), a former winner of the video games and brother of detective Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon). In Season 2, the Entrance Man’s huge reveal was on the finish of Episode 3, when he entered the video games undercover as Participant 001. It’s nonetheless unclear what he hoped to realize — to be honest, he could love chaos — however regardless of himself, he bonded with Gi-hun, betraying a robust fascination within the man who needs to finish the video games for good.
After faking his personal loss of life within the finale (by way of radio) and capturing Gi-hun’s greatest good friend in entrance of him, In-ho resumes his publish inside the video games and his place as Gi-hun’s best enemy. When will Gi-hun be taught that the person he bonded with as a participant is definitely the ostensible puppet grasp of all of it? Will he ever be taught, and the way? And can Jun-ho come clear that he knew for years, and that his brother is the one who shot him?
2. How do the Video games proceed?
With a number of votes to finish, an open revolt, and the return of not one however two former winners, 2024’s video games had been nothing if not eventful. Certainly the VIPs and anybody else invested within the course of and its final result might be extra insistent than ever that the video games proceed — however what concerning the remaining gamers? Will they vote once more — and even be allowed to? Or will they be punished for what Gi-hun and his mates tried to do within the Season 2 finale?
3. Who’s the fisherman?
Season 2 launched Captain Park (Oh Dai-su), seemingly an on a regular basis fisherman who discovered Jun-ho within the water after he was shot by his brother on the island — however the finale revealed that he’s actively sabotaging Jun-ho’s seek for the island, and possibly has been this complete time. Who is that this man actually? The truth that he even discovered Jun-ho means he was near the island and doubtlessly already working as its guardian. He didn’t suppose twice about killing a person to be able to save his cowl, which locations Jun-ho and his complete crew in rapid hazard transferring into Season 3.
4. What concerning the little woman?
Season 2, Episode 2 launched Na-yeon (Park Yabom), a candy little woman coping with a long-term sickness for which her father hopes to win cash within the video games. However as of the Season 2 finale, father Gyeong-seok (Lee Jin-woo) was shot — not within the arm like Jun-ho in Season 1, however within the chest and ostensibly fatally (and “Squid Recreation” is healthier than utilizing the identical twist twice). The guard who killed him could or could not have been No-eoul (Park Gyuyoung), however both means, we all know that she has a delicate spot for the little woman — and misses her personal baby, who was final seen in North Korea.
5. Will all the gamers make it out alive?
It’s a foregone conclusion in “Squid Recreation” that many of the characters we meet and develop hooked up to will meet sudden, violent ends. However that wasn’t the case in Season 2, even when it was arguably a half season — and if Gi-hun succeeds in his mission earlier than the video games conclude, he may save a number of those that stay; like mother-son duo Geum-ja (Kang Ae-shim) and Yong-sik (Yang Dong-geun), fellow insurgent Hyun-ju (Park Sung-hoon), ex-marine Dae-ho (Kang Ha-neul), and the pregnant Jun-hee (Jo Yu-ri). Or we may very well be pressured to look at all of them die horribly!
“Squid Recreation” returns for its third and remaining season in 2025.