Star of one of the biggest TV thrillers ever addresses ‘disappointed’ fans
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Squid Game actor Wi Ha-joon has reassured ‘disappointed’ fans that there is more to come for his character after complaints of a greatly reduced season two arc.
![[Wi Ha-joon as Detective Hwang Ju]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_236930201-1f6c.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
The second season of the hit Netflix thriller broke records after an agonising three-year wait, comfortably sitting at number two in the top 10 global non-English TV shows (eclipsed only by season one) with a whopping 165,700,000 views. The show picked up with Seong Gi-Hun aka Player 456 (Lee Jung-jae) re-entering the deadly Squid Game arena with one task in mind – bloody vengeance against the brutal game creators.
![[Lee Byung-hun as Front Man in Squid Game season two sat on a sofa in a suit]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_234766383-f0be.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
As usual, he is up against hundreds of other contestants to be in with a chance to win a life-changing ₩45.6billion won. Unbeknownst to him, Player 001 is actually The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) in disguise and the two build a camaraderie, making the betrayal all the more devastating in the finale.
![[Squid Game S2 Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun in the uniform with his hands up]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_235247662-e298.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Amid the high-stakes action and edge-of-your-seat games, however, fans noticed that a key season one character seems to have been left behind. In the first season, Detective Hwang Jun-ho (Ha-joon) infiltrates the games in pursuit of his missing brother Hwang In-ho only to shockingly discover he is The Front Man orchestrating the games.
Hwang is shot by the Front Man’s henchmen and plummets off a cliff, surviving by the skin of his teeth. In the second season, we check back with Jun-ho as he desperately, and unsuccessfully, tries to rediscover the island where the game is hosted. But his character very quickly fades into the background.
