Do not lose your marbles — spoilers lie forward for the second season of “Squid Sport.”
In case you watched the primary season of the surprising (but large) South Korean hit “Squid Sport” again when it premiered in 2021, there are some things it is advisable keep in mind, particularly in the event you solely keep in mind the titular lethal sport that pits 456 determined gamers towards each other for an enormous payout. Whereas Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) battles his approach via the video games themselves, a detective — Hwang Jun-ho, performed by Wi Ha-joon — infiltrates the video games by posing as a guard in an try and suss out and expose the mysterious masked Entrance Man. After a enjoyable little mission, Jun-ho comes nose to nose with the unmasked Entrance Man solely to appreciate that it is his lacking brother Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun), who gained the sport a few years beforehand and is now concerned with their whole course of.
In-ho shoots his personal brother and apparently leaves him for useless, with Jun-ho falling off the aspect of a cliff and into the ocean. At the beginning of season of “Squid Sport,” Jun-ho wakes up in a hospital along with his apprehensive mom by his aspect, at which level the story jumps ahead by a full two years. Now, Jun-ho is attempting to trace down his brother once more and expose the video games alongside Gi-hun, however his storyline sucks. Why? He does not do something.
Jun-ho’s storyline in season 2 of Squid Sport is a whole disappointment
This is what Jun-ho does in “Squid Sport” season 2: nothing of word. The primary time we see him after the coma, he is now not a detective and is as a substitute working as a visitors cop, writing tickets and searching reasonably depressing. In his free time, nevertheless, Jun-ho is crusing round in a ship looking for the mysterious island the place the video games happen.
Later, Jun-ho hyperlinks up with Gi-hun and realizes they’re each gunning for In-ho, and the 2 begin working collectively. (Notably, Jun-ho does not inform Gi-hun the Entrance Man is his brother.) After putting a tracker in a false tooth that is implanted into Gi-hun’s mouth, Jun-ho waits along with his crew on a ship and hopes they’ll observe down the island massive sufficient to deal with the huge sport. Sadly for everyone concerned, Gi-hun will get to the sport and all of a sudden realizes that the implant was eliminated whereas he was unconscious (gamers are gassed and knocked out earlier than arriving on the video games in order that they do not know the place they’re).
As for Jun-ho, he spends the remainder of the season on a ship, looking for Jun-ho and the island and getting completely nowhere. On high of that, each time the present cuts away from the video games to reminds us that Jun-ho continues to be at sea, the pacing drags. It genuinely appears like season 2 may’ve lower out Jun-ho fully and functioned effective, however maybe that is all supposed as set-up for Jun-ho having an even bigger half to play within the third and ultimate season of the Netflix sequence
It is miserable that Jun-ho, who was a fascinating character in season 1, is relegated to looking out via chum buckets and sitting round on a ship whereas Gi-hun will get all of the fascinating plotlines. Sadly for Jun-ho stans, he largely simply sails round taking a look at islands, and even the eleventh hour twist that the boat captain is perhaps a double agent is severely undercut by how boring this all is. By the point season 2 ends, Jun-ho continues to be no nearer to discovering Gi-hun and the island. He is actually adrift. Hopefully, in season 3 of “Squid Sport,” Jun-ho will get to do one thing fascinating once more, as a result of his season 2 storyline was a serious letdown.
“Squid Sport” season 2 is streaming on Netflix now.
