

So I almost feel like you leave us no choice.” Still, it took several months for the next chapter to officially get the greenlight from Netflix. In a video posted by The Associated Press in November 2021, Squid Game writer/director Hwang Dong-hyuk confirmed Season 2 is coming: “There’s been so much pressure, so much demand, and so much love for a second season. Now, fans and celebrities are desperate to know what Squid Game’s future holds. During this meeting, the old man dies due to his brain tumor, but as Gi-hun and viewers learn before Season 1 concludes, the annual deadly games survived. When he arrives at an empty office, Gi-hun sees an ill Player 001 aka Oh Il-nam (Oh Yeong-su), the old man he had befriended who was presumed to have been fatally shot offscreen after losing a game of marbles to Gi-hun. Confused by the untouched winnings, the tournament’s unknown mastermind summons Gi-hun. After returning home, Gi-hun finds his elderly mother dead on the floor due to complications from diabetes, and in his subsequent depression, he doesn’t spend much of the prize money he had fought for to help her live an easier life. However, in a shocking plot twist during the back half of the finale, viewers learned that Player 456 wasn’t the only person to survive the tournament. Throughout the first eight episodes and the front half of the finale, that’s how things seem to have played out - with Player 456 aka Seong Gi-hun (played by Lee Jung-jae) becoming that sole survivor of the unspeakable horrors he thought had left a bloody trail of 455 murdered players inside the secret bunker they were trapped in.

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Netflix’s massively popular drama series Squid Game begins with 456 debt-ridden citizens recruited to compete in a grim tournament of children’s playground games that, to viewers’ knowledge, should end with only one contestant alive to win a life-changing 45.6 billion won (roughly $38 million).
