Don’t lose your head: spoilers for the second season of “The squid game.”
If you watched the first season of the unexpected (but massive) South Korean hit “Squid Game” when it premiered in 2021, there are a few things you should remember: especially if you only Remember the deadly game that pits 456 desperate players against each other for a massive payout. As Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) makes his way through the games, a detective, Hwang Jun-ho, played by Wi Ha-joon, infiltrates the games by posing as a guard in an attempt to discover and expose. the mysterious masked figurehead. After a fun little mission, Jun-ho comes face to face with the unmasked leader only to realize that it is his missing brother Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun), who won the game many years before and now. He is involved with his team. the whole process.
In-ho shoots his own brother and apparently leaves him for dead, with Jun-ho falling off a cliff into the ocean. At the beginning of the “Squid Game” season, Jun-ho wakes up in a hospital with his worried mother by his side, at which point the story jumps forward two full years. Now, Jun-ho is trying to locate his brother. again and expose the games with Gi-hun, but his story it sucks. Because? he doesn’t do anything.
Jun-ho’s story in Squid Game season 2 is a complete disappointment
This is what Jun-ho does in “Squid Game” season 2: nothing remarkable. The first time we see him after the coma, he is no longer a detective and works as a traffic cop, giving tickets and looking quite miserable. However, in his free time, Jun-ho sails on a boat trying to find the mysterious island where the games take place.
Later, Jun-ho connects with Gi-hun and realizes that they are both targeting In-ho, and the two begin to work together. (In particular, Jun-ho does not No tell Gi-hun that the front man is his brother). After attaching a tracker to a false tooth that is implanted in Gi-hun’s mouth, Jun-ho waits with his crew on a ship and hopes they can locate him. the island big enough to host the massive game. Unfortunately for everyone involved, Gi-hun arrives at the game and suddenly realizes that his implant was removed while he was unconscious (players are gassed and knocked out before arriving at the games so they don’t know where they are).
As for Jun-ho, he spends the rest of the season on a boat, trying to find Jun-ho and the island without getting anywhere. On top of that, every time the show cuts away from the games to remind us that Jun-ho is still at sea, the pace slows down. It really seems like season 2 could have eliminated Jun-ho completely and worked well, but maybe this is all a setup for Jun-ho to have a bigger role in the third and final season of the Netflix series.
It’s depressing that Jun-ho, who was a fascinating The season 1 character is relegated to digging through buckets of chum and sitting on a boat while Gi-hun gets all the interesting plots. Unfortunately for Jun-ho fans, he mostly just sails around looking at islands, and even the last-minute twist that the ship’s captain might be a double agent is seriously undermined by How boring all this is. As season 2 ends, Jun-ho is still no closer to finding Gi-hun and the island. He is literally adrift. Hopefully, in “The Squid Game” season 3, Jun-ho will do something interesting again, because the story of season 2 was a big disappointment.
“Squid Game” Season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.
