Squid Game
Squid Game is coming to an end tomorrow with the release of season 3, not all that long after season 2 in December 2024. The reason being there is because both were shot back-to-back, and really, it was essentially one large season split in half.
That said, December is still six months ago, and it’s easy to forget what happened, including key details like who is actually still alive. Well, if you want a recap, a short one, an official one, Netflix has released probably the only Squid Game season 2 you need to watch:
It’s just under three minutes and has already been viewed three-quarters of a million times, so yes, this is probably the go-to, which includes the games, the deaths, and where things ended up in the end. Spoiler: not in a great spot with the Front Man revealed and the games soldiering on. Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has said explicitly that we should not expect a happy ending for the show. He also said that this may not be the end of the show at all, per an interview with EW, even if this specific arc is done. But we may even return to the characters in a prequel spinoff:
“I actually had this faint ideation about possibly a spinoff — not a sequel, but maybe a spinoff about the three-year gap between season 1 and season 2 when Gi-hun [Lee Jung-jae] looks around for the recruiters,” Hwang said. “There is that three-year period, and maybe I could have a portrayal of what the recruiters or Captain Park [Oh Dal-su] or officers or masked men were doing in that period, not inside the gaming arena, but their life outside of that. So that is some vague ideation that I have that could possibly be developed in the future.”
So yeah, we have that to look forward to, maybe, in let’s say, 2029, at the earliest.
As for recaps, if you do want one longer than three minutes, you can watch this 26(!) minute offering from Stan Lee Presents, going over the entire span of the show:
Squid Game season 2 did not quite reach the viewership highs of season 1, but despite that, it is still one of the most-watched seasons of any Netflix show ever, and I expect things will increase given that we are finally at the final. That drops tomorrow, June 27, and we’ll see how it all plays out then.
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