Squid Game creator and star address fan ‘anger’ over divisive ending
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Gi-hun/Player 456 actor knows why viewers are ‘cursing’ the final scene. The creator and star ofSquid Game have addressed disdain over season two’s ending. Season two of Netflix’s most-watched TV show of all time arrived on Boxing Day (26 December), three years since it first took the world by storm.
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However, while viewers have been mostly impressed by the follow-up and its new array of characters, they were left divided over the action-packed final episode, which ended with a cliffhanger teeing up what will be the third and final season in 2025. Both Hwang Dong-hyuk, who wrote and directed the final episode, and Lee Jung-jae, who returns as Gi-hun AKA Player 456, predicted that fans might be left rather frustrated by the final scene.
*Spoilers follow – you have been warned*. In the final episode of the show, Gi-hun AKA Player 456 (Lee Jung-jae), who won the games in the first season, leads an uprising against the shadowy bosses in charge of the game by taking the weapons of the pink-costumed assassins who carry out the deadly challenges.
Unbeknownst to Gi-hun, his second time in the games has seen him make an ally of black-masked villain In-ho, known as The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun), who himself won the games years before. In the finale, In-ho– who Gi-hun knows as Young-il AKA Player 001 – fakes his own death before returning to his position behind-the-scenes.
