Squid Sport Season 3 Ends With a Wild Cameo [Spoilers]

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for the Season 3 finale of Squid Game, “Humans Are…”]

Squid Sport, over the course of its three-season run on Netflix, had an actual knack for startling the viewers, and it saved one in all its finest surprises for the ultimate moments of the collection finale, a scene amplified by the truth that creator Hwang Dong-hyuk was someway in a position to enlist Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett for a short cameo.

You don’t want to know something particular concerning the chain of occasions that brings the Entrance Man (Lee Byung-hun) to town of Los Angeles on the finish of the finale — all that’s essential to know is that as whereas sitting in downtown L.A. site visitors, he will get a glimpse of a really acquainted scene: Two folks standing in an alley, taking part in a sport of ddakji. One of many gamers is a clearly destitute man, and the opposite is, nicely, Cate Blanchett, trying fabulous in a pointy black swimsuit as she slaps the dwelling crap out of her opponent.

Realizing she’s being noticed, Blanchett’s character merely smiles on the Entrance Man. The message is obvious: That the Squid Sport by no means actually ends, and could also be all over the place.

It’s a reveal that may very well be interpreted as a promise (or risk?) that an English-language spinoff is coming down the road, and Blanchett’s not above doing TV — she did simply star within the Apple TV+ restricted collection Disclaimer, amongst different tasks. Nevertheless, this actually does sound prefer it’ll be the ultimate season of Squid Sport: In a be aware despatched to press, Hwang made some extent about saying that he has “taken a variety of care in closing this story.”

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Which leaves us free to think about what it might be like if Cate Blanchett slapped us throughout the face. Screw the 45.6 billion gained — that will be the actual prize.

Squid Sport Season 3 is streaming now on Netflix. Learn our full evaluate right here.