Squid Game

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This article contains spoilers for Squid Game season 2.

Squid Gameseason 2 features many unique story developments and characters but still shares many narrative parallels with season 1.

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Thankfully, it manages to achieve that by featuring new characters and also a new set of games.

Like Gi-hun, Park Yong-sik also has a loving mother who is willing to do everything for him.

She even follows him to the games, hoping to stop him from falling deeper into his downward spiral.

Lee Jung-jae as Gi-hun in Squid Game

Custom Image by Dhruv Sharma.

InSquid Gameseason 2, however, he is driven by a deeper purpose.

However, to his dismay, his quest in season 2 leads him to nothing.

Gi-hun predicts something similar to happen in season 2.

Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun with other players in the background in Squid Game season 2

Squid Game is a South Korean series released in 2021 about financially struggling individuals who are invited to participate in a series of children’s games. The competition offers a lucrative prize but comes with perilous consequences, as the players soon discover the lethal stakes involved in each round.

With this, he wins the 45.6 billion-won prize, but at a terrible cost.

However, the primary appeal of both seasons lies in the titular games.

Squid Game Key Facts Breakdown

Written & Directed By

Hwang Dong-hyuk

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Squid Game

Of Episodes

16

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Something similar happens in season 2 when Gi-hun bumps into Jung-bae at the games.

Even the game’s organizers and VIPs are shocked by his decision.

Squid Game - Season 2

Like Oh Il-nam, he also fakes his death inSquid Gameseason 2’s ending moments to deceive Gi-hun.