“Some may even curse that it’s ending on such a cliffhanger,” Lee Jung-jae says.
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Warning: This article contains spoilers about theSquid Gameseason 2 finale.
But in season 2, that had even deadlier consequences than normal for Gi-hun, a.k.a.
Lee Jung-jae.Credit:No Ju-han/Netflix
Player 456 (Lee Jung-jae), and the rest of the players.
After Gi-hun trusted Il-nam, a.k.a.
And that’s why he decided to end season 2 on this major cliffhanger.
Lee Jung-jae and Lee Seo-hwan, ‘Squid Game’.No Ju-han/Netflix
“The first attempt is, he tries to get backup to come and save him from the game.
The second one is through votes he tries to persuade everybody so they can leave together.
That fails as well.
Lee Byung-hun, ‘Squid Game’.No Ju-han/Netflix
And then, the third attempt was to carry out the revolt, which again fails.
And as a result, he loses his best friend in front of his eyes.”
“I thought that that would be just the right moment to end the story,” he says.
“Of course, those watching would feel like, ‘Oh, no.
What’s going to happen next?
Give us the next episode right now.’
So, I thought that was the best place to end the season.”
“My first reaction was, ‘how could you end the season at that point?'”
Some may even curse that it’s ending on such a cliffhanger.
But I realized that a lot of people nowadays actually love bold cliffhangers."
“And it made me very furious.”
Losing Jung-bae in such a disturbing fashion is absolutely going to impact Gi-hun heading into the final season.
“It must have been a really big shock for him,” Jung-jae says.
Squid Gameseason 2 is now streaming, and will returnwith season 3 in 2025, on Netflix.
