The second season of Squid Game has been online on Netflix since the end of last year. This ended a wait of over three years, which perhaps even made the surprise in the season finale seem a little more cruel. The second chapter of the series ends on a badass cliffhangerwhich fans apparently weren’t expecting.
This is how Squid Game fans reacted to the cliffhanger in season 2
A post on “Just finished season 2 of Squid Game and what the honest fuck? What a cliffhanger.”
This person put it a little more visually, describing their facial expression before and after discovering the open end: “How I was excited for Squid Game Season 2 before it came out. How I found out it ends on a cliffhanger and milks it for Part 3.”
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Squid Game Season 2 Finale Spoilers: In season 2, Gi-hun (Jung-Jae Lee) and his teammates manage to get hold of the security guards’ weapons and start an uprising. However, this is stopped by the frontman (Hwang In-ho), who had previously taken part in the games himself, and player 456 is captured.
The Squid Game maker has an explanation for the blatant cliffhanger
Why did you decide to end season 2 like this? Squid Game series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk had a good explanation about this to Entertainment Weekly before the series started in December 2024:
Originally I had mine Seasons 2 and 3 as a single story presented. That’s how I wrote it. But there were too many episodes. So I thought it would be better to split it into two parts.
Lead actor Lee already feared (via EW ) that some might react badly to the cliffhanger ending:
My first reaction was, ‘How could you end the season at this point?’ I think audiences would really want to know what’s going to happen next, and some might even be very angry. Some might even curse that it ends on such a cliffhanger. But I realized that a lot of people these days actually love risqué cliffhangers. When is Squid Game season 3 coming to resolve the cliffhanger?
The good news: This time it won’t take three years until Squid Game continues. Netflix has already scheduled the new episodes for this year – and if a recent start date leak is to be believed, it could even be as early as summer 2025. Then we find out what becomes of Gi-hun and which of the remaining players survive the deadly games.