Do not lose your marbles — spoilers lie forward for the second season of “Squid Recreation.”
Should you watched the primary season of the surprising (but huge) South Korean hit “Squid Recreation” again when it premiered in 2021, there are some things it is advisable bear in mind, particularly should you solely bear in mind the titular lethal sport that pits 456 determined gamers in opposition to each other for a large payout. Whereas Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) battles his means 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 head to head with the unmasked Entrance Man solely to appreciate that it is his lacking brother Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun), who received 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 first of season of “Squid Recreation,” Jun-ho wakes up in a hospital along with his anxious mom by his aspect, at which level the story jumps ahead by a full two years. Now, Jun-ho is making an attempt 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 Recreation is an entire disappointment
Here is what Jun-ho does in “Squid Recreation” season 2: nothing of word. The primary time we see him after the coma, he is not a detective and is as an alternative working as a site 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 inserting 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 will observe down the island massive sufficient to deal with the huge sport. Sadly for everyone concerned, Gi-hun will get to the sport and out of the blue 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 prime of that, at any time when the present cuts away from the video games to reminds us that Jun-ho continues to be at sea, the pacing drags. It genuinely looks like season 2 might’ve reduce out Jun-ho completely and functioned tremendous, however maybe that is all supposed as set-up for Jun-ho having an even bigger half to play within the third and remaining season of the Netflix sequence
It is miserable that Jun-ho, who was a fascinating character in season 1, is relegated to looking 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 islands, and even the eleventh hour twist that the boat captain is likely to be a double agent is critically 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 Recreation,” Jun-ho will get to do one thing fascinating once more, as a result of his season 2 storyline was a significant letdown.
“Squid Recreation” season 2 is streaming on Netflix now.
