After three seasons, a whole bunch of deaths, billions of Korean received handed out, and a seemingly infinite rollercoaster of twists and turns, “Squid Sport” has now dropped its remaining episodes on Netflix.
A sequence that wasn’t initially designed for a second season, “Squid Sport” grew to become a phenomenon with a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of views all over the world.
Season 1 launched audiences to the Korean sequence through which a secret sport present was performed on a distant island for the advantage of just a few, rich, masked, VIPs, with just one winner allowed to take residence the prize.
Seasons 2 and three returned that winner (Lee Jung-jae, who performed Seong Gi-hun, aka Participant 456) to the world, but in addition delved into the lives of the armed, pink-suited guards and a bulldog detective decided to close the entire system down.
Now that the ultimate sport (or so we expect) has been performed, who had been the winners? Who had been the losers? Let’s dig into what we all know. However beware — issues get darkish on this “Sport.”
Warning: Spoilers for all of “Squid Sport” forward.
Does Participant 456 die in ‘Squid Sport’? Seong Gi-hun’s destiny, defined
Gi-hun went by way of the wringer in Seasons 2 and three. He introduced himself again into the sport as a way to subvert it, believing that his expertise may foment a riot among the many gamers. It turned out within the sport — as typically in actual life — gamers most well-liked to vote for their very own private pursuits, fairly than what was greatest for the collective, a brutal metaphor.
Disillusioned by humanity after a number of of the video games, Gi-hun checked out of energetic participation as a lot as he may — till circumstances introduced him a child to guard in the course of the sport. The child was given its late mom’s (Jo Yuri, enjoying Kim Jun-hee, aka Participant 222) quantity, and permitted to “take part” in her stead.
Within the remaining spherical of the Sport, Gi-hun and the infant made it to the final stage. They’d needed to face off quite a few remaining gamers within the final take a look at, which concerned pushing gamers from the highest of a number of tall towers. However on the ultimate tower, Gi-hun, the infant, and Participant 333 (Yim Si-wan, enjoying Lee Myung-gi, the infant’s father) had been the one ones left standing. The foundations dictated that one individual on the tower should die for the sport to finish, however that individual needed to die after a button on the tower is pressed. Gi-hun and Myung-gi battle — and Myung-gi fell from the tower.
Sadly, the button wasn’t pushed earlier than he fell, so time had not began and the demise didn’t depend. A demise was nonetheless required to finish the sport. The VIPs of their protected sales space anticipated Gi-hun to sacrifice the infant — however they clearly didn’t know him properly. There’s no actual successful at Squid Sport, the present gave the impression to be saying — all that cash didn’t make Gi-hun’s life a complete lot higher. So Gi-hun kissed the infant, put her on the bottom and switch to the digital camera to say, “We aren’t horses. We’re people.” Then he fell from the tower and died.
It’s a bittersweet ending, however a profound one — and answered the query Entrance Man requested Gi-hun in Season 3: “Do you continue to place confidence in folks?”
By not sacrificing an harmless child, we acquired Gi-hun’s remaining reply.
So, who wins ‘Squid Sport’ in Season 3?
Participant 222, the toddler.
What in regards to the detective, Jun-ho, who’s been investigating the Squid Sport?
Hwang Jun-ho (performed by Wi Ha-joon) was too late to save lots of Gi-hun, however he was in a position to ship the Korean Coast Guard to the island.
Jun-ho did rescue the escaped Participant 246 (Park Gyeong-seok, performed by Lee Jin-wook), whose daughter was hospitalized with leukemia.
Jun-ho arrived on the island, searching for his brother (In-ho, aka Entrance Man, performed by Lee Byung-hun), making it to the VIP chamber — simply as In-ho retrieved Participant 222/the infant from the highest of the ultimate tower.
Jun-ho thought of capturing his brother, however couldn’t, afraid of harming the infant. Six months after the sport ended, Jun-ho discovered the infant and the sport’s prize cash left for him (in all probability by In-ho).
Does the pink-suited guard No-eul survive?
Kang No-eul (aka Guard 011, performed by Park Gyuyoung), had misplaced her daughter and bonded with Participant 246’s baby earlier than coming to the island as a guard.
However when she found the organ harvesting operation occurring between the guards and the lifeless gamers, she stepped up her efforts to assist Participant 246 escape.
She destroyed all proof he had been on the island, and was ready to die within the Entrance Man’s workplace when she noticed Gi-hun’s sacrifice. Listening to the infant, she determined to not kill herself.
Six months later, she confirmed up visiting Participant 246 within the amusement park the place he nonetheless works, and the place she used to work in a fancy dress. He remained unaware that she was the one who saved his life, since she had her pink swimsuit and masks on the entire time. She reunited with Participant 246’s daughter, now wholesome.
However there’s a twist: No-eul is a North Korean defector who was separated from her daughter. She will get information the kid may be alive in China. We final see No-eul on the airport, able to get on a airplane to presumably go to her daughter.
If that sounds acquainted, it’s much like the best way Season 1 ended, with Gi-hun about to go see his personal daughter in Los Angeles.
Does Gi-hun dwell on?
Type of. After we first met Gi-hun in Season 1, one purpose he acquired into the Sport within the first place was so he may assist his daughter. However after he received, he grew to become obsessive about ending the sport.
With Gi-hun lifeless, In-ho (Entrance Man) made the journey Gi-hun didn’t: He went to the U.S. to see the late participant’s daughter. He handed over a field of Gi-hun’s belongings to his daughter — a bloody uniform and a debit card, which in all probability had the rest of Gi-hun’s winnings on it. Did In-ho change his personal opinion about humanity’s value? It appeared he was making ready to take action.
Will there be extra ‘Squid Sport’?
Based mostly on the ultimate scenes, we suspect sure.
Within the final scene, after In-ho completed dropping off the winnings to Gi-hun’s daughter, he noticed a lady enjoying the introductory card-slap sport with somebody in an alley. And never simply anyone — he noticed a Recruiter, performed by Cate Blanchett! They didn’t converse to one another, although she nodded with recognition at him and he moved on.
Season 1 knowledgeable us that Squid Video games are performed all over the world, and final October Deadline wrote that an English-language model of the sequence was being developed with director David Fincher. Perhaps we’ve simply seen the primary scene in “Squid Sport: USA”?
