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In Episode 3 of “Squid Game” Season 2bonustime, Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) — the man who was the sole survivor and big prize-money winner at the end of “Squid Game” Season 1 — finds himself back on the same mysterious island three years later, competing once again in a tournament of children’s games in which the losers are shot dead.
Gi-hun chose to return. He is determined to use his newfound wealth to destroy the games, either through a violent coup or by persuading the misanthropes who run the tournament that their cynical take on human nature is wrong. But as he sits in the barracks again, wearing a jumpsuit sporting player number 456 (again), waiting to play another deadly round of “Red Light, Green Light,” Gi-hun looks stricken.
The first time he played, he had no idea what to expect. Now that he knows the stakes? Playing seems like madness.
Yet even here, the plans are not being embraced. Rather, they are finding unexpected opposition.
What doesn’t seem like madness? Making another season of “Squid Game,” the most watched series in Netflix history. Season 1 told a fairly complete story, with Gi-hun entering the games to pay off huge gambling debts before leaving with a full bank account and a shattered soul. There were a few loose ends, though. Who keeps the games going after the founder dies? And what happened to Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-jun), the undercover cop shot on the island by his brother Hwang In-ho, better known as the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun)?
free slots comMore important, “Squid Game” has become an international phenomenon, spawning video games, reality TV spinoffs and brand partnerships. A second season, which debuted on Thursday, was almost inevitable. (Is it in good taste to turn a violent story about human exploitation into a multi-platform franchise? Perhaps not. But it proves one point of this series: The market gets what it demands.)
The big question for the writer, director and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk was whether to take his premise into a new and unexpected place or to repeat what worked so well the first time.
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