Death Explained, Season 3 Plans, Credits Scene

SPOILER ALERT: This text accommodates main spoilers from “Squid Recreation” Season 2 finale, now streaming on Netflix.

Recreation over — for now. “Squid Recreation” Season 2 concluded its seventh and ultimate episode with the brutal homicide of Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) greatest buddy Jung-bae (Lee Search engine marketing-hwan) proper earlier than his eyes. Jung-bae is shot useless by Squid Recreation supervisor The Entrance Man (Lee Byung-hun) after Gi-hun leads an rebellion of the gamers within the present sport.

Whereas the loss of life by itself is stunning and gutting and horrifying, it’s made all of the extra ugly for the viewer than Gi-hun as a result of, not like our hero, the viewers is aware of The Entrance Man’s true id: he’s In-ho, a earlier winner of the Squid Recreation who now works as the pinnacle guard.

In-ho has spent this sport posing as Participant 001 (going by the title Younger-il) and rising near Gi-hun and Jung-bae to realize their belief and fake to be a part of their trigger and rise up, solely to don his Entrance Man masks once more in the long run and kill Jung-bae to punish Gi-hun.

With yet another season to go, “Squid Recreation” creator Hwang Dong-hyuk broke down the Season 2 finale for Selection — together with the mid-credits scene that teases an unfamiliar model of the Squid Recreation that includes new female and male variations of the enormous, deadly laser-eyed “Crimson Gentle, Inexperienced Gentle” dolls — and what he has deliberate for Season 3 and the collection finale.

“Squid Recreation” Season 2 ends on a large cliffhanger with The Entrance Man (In-ho/Younger-il, unbeknownst to Gi-hun) killing Jung-bae proper in entrance of Gi-hun, leaving Gi-hun to scream in horror because the pink guards maintain him down and drive him to observe his buddy bleed out. Why did you resolve to finish the season right here?

Once I first wrote the story of Seasons 2 and three it was one lengthy story arc. And I used to be initially planning to write down this story throughout a span of about eight to 9 episodes, however as soon as I completed the story, it got here to over 10 episodes, which I believed was too lengthy to comprise in a single season. And so I needed to have an satisfactory level the place I might give closure as a second season after which transfer on with the third. And once you have a look at Gi-hun’s story, all of his makes an attempt that he places in to cease the sport: the primary one being getting these mercenaries and attempting to plant a monitoring machine, that goes to fail; the second try of attempting to influence individuals to vote in order that they’ll go away the sport, that goes to fail as effectively; after which the third and final try of bringing individuals collectively and inflicting the rise up, it additionally all goes to fail.

So all of his failures result in this heavy, heavy disaster of getting to lose his absolute best buddy, Jung-bae, by the hands of The Entrance Man. And when you concentrate on Gi-hun’s journey, I believed that that was an satisfactory second to place a cease and provides him just a little little bit of closure alongside that lengthy story arc. After which from that second on, within the third season, having that sense of giant guilt and sense of failure weighing closely on him — how is Gi-hun going to hold on his mission? That’s the story that’ll additional unfold.

Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and Jung-bae (Lee Search engine marketing-hwan) in “Squid Recreation” Season 2 — Credit score: No Ju-han/Netflix
No Ju-han/Netflix

When can we count on Season 3 to premiere and what are you able to tease concerning the storyline for the collection’ ultimate episodes?

At this level, something I’d say goes to be a spoiler, so I need to be cautious. However what I can say is, after Season 2 launches, I imagine we can be asserting the launch date for Season 3 quickly. I most likely count on that to launch round summer season or fall subsequent yr. However as for the storyline of the third season, Gi-hun having misplaced all the pieces, together with his greatest buddy, and all of his makes an attempt going to failure, it’s now, what’s he going to be like? What state is Gi-hun going to be in? And what’s going to he select to do? Will he proceed on with the mission? Is he going to surrender or persist? And so that you’re going to fulfill our character Gi-hun at a really important crossroads as we start the third season. Gi-hun won’t be the person he was in Season 2.

With Gi-hun and portion of different gamers having rebelled in opposition to The Entrance Man and pink guards in Season 2, will the present’s format change in Season 3? How will they be capable to return to the usually scheduled Squid Recreation now that so lots of the gamers have disrupted the system?

In the event you noticed the hidden clip after the ending credit roll after the final episode of Season 2 — if you happen to watch that clip, it’s going to present you a slight trace as to the place Season 3 would possibly take you. I feel that’s all I can say, for now.

Which of the Season 2 video games did you discover probably the most satisfying to shoot and why?

I’d say the pentathlon. Not solely was it probably the most difficult to shoot, however I feel after we had completed filming it, I loved watching it myself probably the most. And particularly so as a result of inside one spherical of video games, you get 5 smaller video games. And as in Season 1, I needed to showcase these precise kids’s video games that Korean individuals grew up taking part in, particularly those that I grew up taking part in myself. With the best way I bought to indicate the world 5 totally different video games in a single spherical, I’d say the pentathlon was most likely probably the most satisfying to shoot.

What do you need to tease concerning the the rest of the collection?

With every episode it’s going to get higher. With every season it’s going to get higher and a extra expanded story, extra intense story, and positively extra entertaining. So simply you should definitely watch it till the very finish!

This interview has been edited and condensed.

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