Squid Game Season 2 Reveals New Details About The Front Man’s Mysterious Past

This text incorporates spoilers for “Squid Recreation” season 2.

The Entrance Man (Lee Byung-hun) is an instrumental character in “Squid Recreation” season 1, and doubly extra so in season 2. After the dying of Oh Il-Nam (O Yeong-su) throughout the ending of “Squid Game” season 1, he appears to wield the first energy over the titular video games, which makes him collection protagonist Seong Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) sworn nemesis. After the primary season reveals that he is really Hwang Jun-ho’s (Wi Ha-joon) long-lost brother Hwang In-ho, he additionally has a private historical past along with his child brother. Nonetheless, aside from his identification and his standing as a former Squid Recreation winner who’s now working as a high-ranking organizer, there’s not lots season 1 reveals concerning the man. 

As such, the morsels of details about his private life he presents in season 2 are extraordinarily attention-grabbing. Revelations concerning the Entrance Man’s historical past begin trickling in after the primary episode, “Bread and Lottery,” is completed with the heavy lifting about Gi-hun’s and Jun-ho’s life circumstances and respective aspirations. Episode 2, “Halloween Social gathering,” teaches us that the character wasn’t all the time alone on this world — as a substitute, he as soon as had a spouse who’s now useless. What’s extra, it seems that Jun-ho and In-ho are literally step brothers. 

There’s additionally an excellent purpose why Jun-ho is so dedicated to his brother regardless of his obvious supervillainy: The Entrance Man has really donated a kidney to him, which suggests a life debt that little doubt reinforces the (step)cohesion the detective-turned-traffic cop feels towards In-ho. It might additionally seem that the Entrance Man has been fairly corrupt even earlier than his Squid Recreation profession, and accepted bribes — although it appears he did it to assist his dying spouse.  

In “Squid Game” season 2 episode 3, “001,” we discover out that the Entrance Man is competing as the sport’s new Participant 001. He quickly allies himself with Gi-hun — who does not know what the Entrance Man appears like, and particularly re-enters the sport to show a degree to the Squid Recreation mastermind. This makes the Entrance Man a extremely untrustworthy presence throughout the video games, after all. Nonetheless, his rapport with Gi-hun — whereas very seemingly pretend — a minimum of appears real, and he presents some details about his background that traces up with the issues we have discovered about him earlier than he joins the sport as a participant. Notably, he mentions taking bribes up to now. Then once more, he additionally claims that his spouse remains to be alive and wishes an organ transplant, which is perhaps what really occurred to his partner in some unspecified time in the future earlier than her dying, however is nonetheless a lie. 

The Entrance Man’s nefarious antics had been all the time among the many things “Squid Game” fans need to remember before watching season 2. Now that the sophomore season is definitely out, it is more and more clear that the character hides even deeper secrets and techniques than anybody might have anticipated, and the present appears content material to sit down on its solutions earlier than “Squid Game” ends with season 3.

“Squid Recreation” season 2 is now streaming on Netflix. 

This text incorporates spoilers for “Squid Recreation” season 2.

The Entrance Man (Lee Byung-hun) is an instrumental character in “Squid Recreation” season 1, and doubly extra so in season 2. After the dying of Oh Il-Nam (O Yeong-su) throughout the ending of “Squid Game” season 1, he appears to wield the first energy over the titular video games, which makes him collection protagonist Seong Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) sworn nemesis. After the primary season reveals that he is really Hwang Jun-ho’s (Wi Ha-joon) long-lost brother Hwang In-ho, he additionally has a private historical past along with his child brother. Nonetheless, aside from his identification and his standing as a former Squid Recreation winner who’s now working as a high-ranking organizer, there’s not lots season 1 reveals concerning the man. 

As such, the morsels of details about his private life he presents in season 2 are extraordinarily attention-grabbing. Revelations concerning the Entrance Man’s historical past begin trickling in after the primary episode, “Bread and Lottery,” is completed with the heavy lifting about Gi-hun’s and Jun-ho’s life circumstances and respective aspirations. Episode 2, “Halloween Social gathering,” teaches us that the character wasn’t all the time alone on this world — as a substitute, he as soon as had a spouse who’s now useless. What’s extra, it seems that Jun-ho and In-ho are literally step brothers. 

There’s additionally an excellent purpose why Jun-ho is so dedicated to his brother regardless of his obvious supervillainy: The Entrance Man has really donated a kidney to him, which suggests a life debt that little doubt reinforces the (step)cohesion the detective-turned-traffic cop feels towards In-ho. It might additionally seem that the Entrance Man has been fairly corrupt even earlier than his Squid Recreation profession, and accepted bribes — although it appears he did it to assist his dying spouse.  

In “Squid Game” season 2 episode 3, “001,” we discover out that the Entrance Man is competing as the sport’s new Participant 001. He quickly allies himself with Gi-hun — who does not know what the Entrance Man appears like, and particularly re-enters the sport to show a degree to the Squid Recreation mastermind. This makes the Entrance Man a extremely untrustworthy presence throughout the video games, after all. Nonetheless, his rapport with Gi-hun — whereas very seemingly pretend — a minimum of appears real, and he presents some details about his background that traces up with the issues we have discovered about him earlier than he joins the sport as a participant. Notably, he mentions taking bribes up to now. Then once more, he additionally claims that his spouse remains to be alive and wishes an organ transplant, which is perhaps what really occurred to his partner in some unspecified time in the future earlier than her dying, however is nonetheless a lie. 

The Entrance Man’s nefarious antics had been all the time among the many things “Squid Game” fans need to remember before watching season 2. Now that the sophomore season is definitely out, it is more and more clear that the character hides even deeper secrets and techniques than anybody might have anticipated, and the present appears content material to sit down on its solutions earlier than “Squid Game” ends with season 3.

“Squid Recreation” season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.