SPOILER ALERT:This short article includes significant spoilers from “Squid Game” Season 2 ending, now streaming on Netflix.
Video game over– in the meantime. “Squid Game” Season 2 concluded its seventh and last episode with the ruthless murder of Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) friend Jung-bae (Lee Seo-hwan) right before his eyes. Jung-bae is shot dead by Squid Game manager The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) after Gi-hun leads an uprising of the gamers in the existing video game.
While the death by itself is stunning and gutting and scary, it’s made even more gruesome for the audience than Gi-hun since, unlike our hero, the audience understands The Front Man’s real identity: he’s In-ho, a previous winner of the Squid Game who now works as the head guard.
In-ho has actually invested this video game impersonating Player 001 (passing the name Young-il) and growing near Gi-hun and Jung-bae to acquire their trust and pretend to be part of their cause and disobedience, just to wear his Front Man mask once again in the end and eliminate Jung-bae to penalize Gi-hun.
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With another season to go, “Squid Game” developer Hwang Dong-hyuk broke down the Season 2 ending for Range — consisting of the mid-credits scene that teases an unknown variation of the Squid Game including brand-new male and female variations of the giant, deadly laser-eyed “Red Light, Green Light” dolls– and what he has actually prepared for Season 3 and the series ending.
“Squid Game” Season 2 ends on an enormous cliffhanger with The Front Man (In-ho/Young-il, unbeknownst to Gi-hun) killing Jung-bae right in front of Gi-hun, leaving Gi-hun to shriek in scary as the pink guards hold him down and require him to see his pal bleed out. Why did you choose to end the season here?
When I initially composed the story of Seasons 2 and 3 it was one long story arc. And I was initially preparing to compose this story throughout a period of about 8 to 9 episodes, once I ended up the story, it pertained to over 10 episodes, which I believed was too long to consist of in a single season. Therefore I wished to have an appropriate point where I might provide closure as a 2nd season and after that proceed with the 3rd. And when you take a look at Gi-hun’s story, all of his efforts that he puts in to stop the video game: the very first one being getting these mercenaries and attempting to plant a tracking gadget, that goes to stop working; the 2nd effort of attempting to encourage individuals to vote so that they can leave the video game, that goes to stop working too; and after that the 3rd and last effort of bringing individuals together and triggering the disobedience, it likewise all goes to stop working.
All of his failures lead to this heavy, heavy crisis of having to lose his really best pal, Jung-bae, at the hands of The Front Man.
