Everything to Remember from ‘Squid Game’ Season 1 and 2

After taking nan world by large wind successful 2021, nan curtain is astir to adjacent connected Hwang Dong-hyuk’s “Squid Game.”

Where Season 2 premiered complete 3 years aft its predecessor, “Squid Game 3” hits Netflix hardly six months connected nan heels of that. Season 2’s characters, stakes, and cliffhanger mightiness beryllium caller successful nan minds of many, but it’s worthy revisiting specifications each of “Squid Game” up of its last hurrah.

In lawsuit you haven’t made nan clip to re-binge each of Season 1 and 2 (or moreover if you have!), here’s a refresher connected what happened successful “Squid Game” and what mightiness beryllium captious to Season 3. While astir of nan characters from Season 1 are dead, Season 2’s cardinal players are still astatine ample — but successful unspeakable threat unless Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) succeeds successful his maestro plan.

The New Gi-hun

In Season 1, our protagonist was a small selfish, a spot bumbling, but a saccharine feline who wanted to supply for his mother and daughter. But aft a week successful nan Games and watching hundreds of group dice violently earlier him owed to nan whims of nan able — not to mention his mother’s abrupt decease during that clip — Gi-hun turned into a grave, hardened, and hardly recognizable personification (and not conscionable because of that drastic dye job).

In nan years betwixt his first and 2nd clip successful nan Game, Gi-hun appears to person hardly kept successful touch pinch his daughter, who moved to America pinch her mother and stepfather, aliases pinch Jung-bae (Lee Seo-hwan), 1 of his remaining friends. He spent nan prize money only connected his hunt for nan Games, portion of a greater ngo to extremity them for good. And nan smile from his aged subordinate ID? Gone, astir apt forever.

Every Vote Counts

In Season 1, Gi-hun and nan different players took a ballot connected whether aliases not to enactment successful nan crippled aft Red Light, Green Light — a ballot which ended successful them going location and returning to their lives. But soon after, galore took nan opportunity to return to nan games, risking their lives alternatively than support nan ones they had.

This voting returned successful Season 2 arsenic a perverse ritual; aft an first ballot to stay, players were required to ballot again aft each game; and each clip truthful far, they’ve stayed. Each personification received a spot to deterioration connected their tracksuit indicating really they voted — fundamentally creating 2 factions wrong nan dorms. Players person tried to entreaty to those connected opposing sides, aliases resorted to much convulsive intends erstwhile that doesn’t work.

The Brothers Hwang

In Season 1, Gi-hun revenge a constabulary study astir everything he saw successful nan games, which prompted constabulary serviceman Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon) to sneak successful arsenic a defender — and study that his missing relative In-ho (Lee Byung-hun) is nary different than Front Man, nan highest-ranking authority wrong nan crippled and a erstwhile winner. The brothers faced disconnected successful nan Season 1 finale, pinch Jun-ho taking a slug and falling disconnected a cliff… but his quest to expose nan games didn’t extremity there.

In-ho had a pregnant woman earlier he entered nan Games, but she died while waiting for him to unafraid costs for her surgery. With thing near to conflict for, he joined nan Games and became nan Front Man. In Season 2, he joins nan games undercover, casting nan first decisive ballot to support playing earlier switching sides and gaining Gi-hun’s spot (but yet losing Jung-bae’s erstwhile he kills personification during nan crippled “Mingle”).

Gi-hun and Jun-ho teamed up successful Season 2, earlier Gi-hun decided to reenter nan games and mislaid each interaction pinch nan extracurricular world. While he risks his life successful nan title and tries to prevention individual players, Jun-ho is connected a vessel pinch a squad of mercenaries wished to find nan island. But arsenic nan Season 2 finale revealed, their biggest threat is nan vessel captain, who is not what he seems.

Gi-hun’s Kill Count

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Plenty of players are contented to dispense pinch societal decorum and commencement afloat murdering each different successful nan Games — but not Gi-hun. He ne'er partook of dormitory violence, sacrificed different players, aliases moreover pushed them to create a disadvantage. He won nan Games connected a technicality, because Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo) stabbed himself aft each nan decease and symptom he wrought.

And until shooting astatine nan masked guards successful Season 2, Gi-hun hadn’t killed aliases tried to harm anyone, moreover if he felt nan desire — but he stands arsenic grounds that unit leaves a people moreover upon those who past and witnesser it. He feels humor connected his hands from what he’s seen, if not thing he’s done. But now that he changeable astatine those guards, waged a grounded rebellion, and mislaid his past friend, what caller lengths mightiness our leader spell to successful nan end?

The Ones Who Live

As of nan Season 2 finale, surviving players see ex-military members Hyun-ju (Park Sung-hoon) and Dae-ho (Kang Ha-neul), mother and boy duo Geum-ja (Kang Ae-shim) and Young-sik (Yang Dong-geun), expecting mother Jun-hee (Jo Yuri), and respective others of statement (R.I.P. Thanos). In-ho is backmost successful his domiciled arsenic Front Man aft nan psychological research of entering nan games and befriending Gi-hun, while No-eul (Park Gyuyoung) will proceed to connection viewers a look wrong nan guards’ lives.

Many of these supported Gi-hun’s rebellion moreover if they didn’t return portion actively (or successful immoderate cases, some — looking astatine you, Dae-ho), which intends they relied connected him to get them retired of nan Games. That spot whitethorn beryllium shaken now, on pinch Gi-hun’s existent expertise to prevention them.

The One Who Died

Before he enters nan game, Gi-hun is seen trying to make ends meet successful his regular life, including daytime gambling pinch aged friend Jung-bae. In Season 2, they met successful nan game, instantly giving Gi-hun thing to conflict for, but besides thing to lose. In nan Season 2 finale, nan Front Man killed Jung-bae correct successful beforehand of him, different devastating decease connected Gi-hun’s conscience.

“Squid Game 3” premieres June 27 connected Netflix.