At the end of Netflix’s new hit South Korean playwright “Squid Game” there are a lot of unresolved issues.
Does the games go on? Will Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) fight for it? Now that Il-nam (Oh Young-soo) is deceased, who’s running it?
The finale is a slower, silent chapter that progressively unfolds into an open-ended ending, after the rapid, eight initial episodes of “Squid,” which Netflix says is on course to become their greatest program of its history. For several fans, after so much excitement and drama this was an unsatisfactory anticlimax. It was a clever, fascinatingly ambiguous way of summing up an awful experience for others
The open finish offers Gi-hun and the games with the possibility to come back for the second season. Whether “Squid” returns (because of its huge success) is not officially written by Netflix (yet), nevertheless, it is no surprise when the series comes returning. But what’s going to be Season 2?
There are some indications to the ending. In this episode, Gi-hun won the sixth match, the squid game, and almost got the final prize. Gi-hun turns to try and convainquire Sang-woo to terminate the game instead of making the move to seal his win and trigger the game employees to kill his boyhood buddy Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo). Sang-woo doesn’t allow Gi-hun to reject the prize money, though, killing himself and turning Gi-hun become the automated game winner.
The final will bring the Gi-hun and the games in conflict with the possibility to be exposed to a new cast of players, who will either participate in or strive to win Gi-hun’s battle. There is also the issue that one of the missing persons whose lives have been taken by the games now includes a police officer so there is a chance that we will see more police authorities.
Only Netflix and his director know whether the program is returning, although there are lots of mysteries, hypotheses about fans to discuss and Easter Eggs to find when the phenomenon comes back.
