Squid game
Humans are…
Season 3
Episode 6
Editor’s rating
3 Stars
GI-Hun’s Final Act of Resistance and the AFTERMATH of the Game Make for A Sobering Ending.
Photo: Noh Ju-Han/Netflix
At the end of the first season of Squid gameGi-hun calls the game’s recruitment number from the airport. “Listen Carefully,” he Says. “I’m not a horse. I’m a person.” He wants to know who’s bend the game and how they can be such horrible Things to People. After in-Ho Advises Him to Just Get on the Flight to Go See His Daughter, Gi-Hun Turns Around Vengefully. Three in-show years, two seasons, and one failed rebellion late, and gi-hun haen unable to force the game to stop treating the poor like to be vips literally places on (there are also figurative connections-the mini piesis are shaped like horses, the game of mingle had players spinning on a merry-go-rock as if they were carousel horses and hornes can be six-legged races you count the limbs of the animal and jockey). In the final series, gi-hun use his final act of resistance to both save a life and reiterate his stance against the dehumanization of Players.
There’s Only One Round Left in the Last Game. AFTER CROSING THE BRIDGE FIRST, MyUng-Gi Brandishes The Pole and Insists that gi-hun stay on the other tower and hand the baby over. This means that myung-gi would have to eliminate himself or the baby, but won’t confirm or deny his plans. He does assert that he was would rather let all thre of say die allow gi-hun to cross. That’s though gi-hun volunteers to be the eliminate player in the next round, myung-gi dosesn’t Trust Him. His mental state is splinttering; He’s the latest to insinuate that gi-hun and jun-hee had a romantic or sexual relationship. With myung-gi getting increasingly agitated and time running out before the bridge disappears, gi-hun puts the baby down and retreats. He wasted the Knife from Player 203’s Body as Myung-Gi Holds His Child for the First Time. When the Bridge Starts Pulling Back, Gi-Hun Launches Himself onto the Pillar.
Gi-hun has deeded that myung-gi doesn’t “desert” to be left on the pillar with the baby. That’s actually in line with jun-hee’s wishes; She Told Myung-Gi That She Didn’t Want Him in the Baby’s Life at All. Myung-Gi and gi-hun fight, and gi-hun gets the upper hand one myung-gi loes his pole. Myung-gi is used to be the baby as a bargaining chip, threatening to drop her if gi-hun approaches. “You think of can’t do it? I’ll do it!” Myung-Gi Yells while Crying. HIS CUSTODY RIGHTS SHOULD BE REVOKED FOR DANGLING HER OVER OVER THE EDGE, THIS IF’S BLUFFING. Gi-hun relinquishes his knife, which myung-gi use to stab Him a couple Times. They Both end up tumbling over the Edge, but gi-hun catches Hold of a bar on the pillar, and myung-gi hangs onto gi-hun by his fraying suit jacket. Gi-hun could easily let go. If he was still in the mindsets he was in when he killed dae-ho, he may have loosned his flu in Anger. Instead, he holds on unil the jacket rips on it and myung-gi to his death.
Gi-hun pulls Himself back on the pillar. Becuse neohere he nor myung-gi pressed the button to start the round Yet, Myung-Gi’s Deathn’t Count As An Elimination; Gi-hun’s Only Options are Himself and the Baby. He Presses the Button. This time, he’s only got 10 minutes to act.
No-eul is in the front man’s room while all this is happy. Earlier in the episode, after the files for Gyeong-Seok and Other Players on Fire and THEN READ HERN FILE. Distraught to see it State that Her Husband was Executed and Her Daughter Is Dead, She Holds a Gun to Her Own Chin, but pauses when she hears the baby bawling. She watches as gi-hun picks the baby up. He tears up and presses a kiss to the baby’s forehead, Holding it to his chest before setting it down on the pillar. For Once, The Vips are Quiet. They Lower their binoculars as they realize that he doesn’t intend to become the first-government two Winner.
“We are not horses,” Gi-hun Sayys. “We are humans. Humans are … Humans are …” he trails off, leaving the viewer to thread in the blanks. In his final act of humanitity, he falls backward with his arms outstretched. A man who was an absentee besher is now sacrificing his own life for another person’s baby. No-Eul Pulls Her Finger Back from the Trigger As She Cries, while in-Ho’s Facial Expression is Hidden from US for Now.
After gi-hun hits the ground, n-ho is informmed that the coast guard is approaching the island. He orers an evacuation, triggery all the screen in the control room to read “Game Over.” He Also Presses a Red Button that Begins A 30-Minute Countdown.
The Coast Guard is Coming thans to jun-Ho, who has gioven say His Ship’s Location. Gyeong-Seok, Who Jun-Ho has confirmed is a player, Remains on Board with Kim, but jun-ho and his scuba haveed to the Island Alone. GIVE HIS PASTERENCE ON THE ISLAND, JUN-HO MUST BE AWARE THAT IT IS UNLICKY HE CAN SAVE PLAYERS OR STOP ANGOING GAME ALL BY HIMSELF. This is about his personal desire to see his Brother again, and he knows his window of opportunity is limited; He reaches on the island shortly before the 30-minute Countdown Begins.
In-Ho Approaches Gi-Hun’s Body and Removes His Front Man Mask. He appears to be Holding Back Tears before he Walks Away. I’m Suddenly Reminded of the Death of In-Ho’s Pregnant Wife. Despite Medical Recommendations that she get an abortion duet to her acute cirrhosis, she was determining to give if it killed her. Last Season, in-ho described her to gi-hun as a “stubborn” person, reflecting that he was never able to Change Her Mind About Anyding. Obiviously, the situations are not exactly the Same, but Despite His Best Efforts, in-Ho was ultimately able to get gi-hun to adopt his world his advice. Except this time, the baby that served as a motivating factor survived.
Jun-Ho Makes to the Front Man’s Room in time to see in-ho apprroaching the baby at the top of the Circular Pillar. Jun-ho shoots at the screen, then finds his way to the vip area, where he was breaks the glas and finally gets his Older Brother’s attention. Jun-Ho Points a Gun at Him, but when Seconds Pass and he doesn’t shoot, in-ho turns ARUND. AFTER Two Seasons of Waiting for This Moment, Jun-Ho Shouts Out to HIS Hyung (Older Brother), “Why? Why did you do it?” IT’S ALPET WORD-FOR-WORD WHAT SAID CE HE LAST SAW HIS Brother, and Once Again, He Gets No Answer. In-Ho doesn’t tan Turn to look back we and leaves with the baby in his arms. All this interaction tolls is that is that jun-ho wanters that in-ho refuses to give-and that neother of say really wants to kill each other. I was argue that we’ve we’ve already known that information for a while (and well recently reminded of it boat Phone call where in-hung up on jun-ho), so it feels a bit anticlimatic.
No-Eul, Now Wearing the Mask of the Office She Killed, Evacuats with the Other Soldiers. It ‘unsettling to see all the Blodstained and Bullet-Redden places where the games took place are they are empty. Only the Giant Dolls and Gi-Hun with his Glassy Doll Eyes Remain. AS the 30-minute Countdown Concludes, The Camera Zooms in Fiery Exploosions in Gi-Hun’s Eyes. From the water, jun-ho gets another view of the Evidence of Squid Game Self-Deductions.
AFTER WE FADE TO BLACK, WE SEE A FIGURE BREAK INTO The Room into the motel where gi-hun kept the remainder of his his Money. The episode then jumps six months into the futures. The Squid Game Organization DOESN’T SEEM TO HAVE BEEN EXPOSED OR INVESTIGATED, AND THE REMAINDER OF THE EPISODE IS DEDICATED TO CHECKING IN THE MAJOR CHARACTERS STILL ALIVE IN THE Squid game-Verse.
Mary of their resolutions Involve Family. First up, no-eul vits the amusement park where Gyeong-seok draws her portrait, unaaware of Why he finds her oddly family. No-eul is happy to confirm that his da nik, na-eon, is healthy, hating traded her stawberry hat for a bowl cut. As no-eul leaves the park, the broker she previously worked with calls to say that heat daughter May have been spotted in china. The next time we see no-eul, she’s at the airport preparing to go Find her.
Jun-Ho picks be-seok up from jail with mu-dong, the friend who fell asleep while keping watch while WOO-SEOK BROKE INTO CAPTAIN’S HOUSE. It is not clear what jun-ho is doing to make a living, though we know he hasn’t returning to the police force. But he is potentially is about take on a new job: Fatherhood. No One SEEMS TO HAVE ASKED JUN-HO IF he wants to be a single dad, but jun-hee’s baby haen de del Squid Game Stationery Indicates that the organization is still up and running.
No-Eul’s Broker Also Brings Cheol, the Brother of Sae-byek from Season One, to Meet His Mom North Korea at the Airport. She Tearfully Apologizes for Taching So Long and Gives Him a Hug. (Sang-Woo’s mom, who raissed cheol, is there for the Reunion and Also Crying.) Meanwhile, in-ho travers to los angeles to gi-hun’s doughter his belongings. GA-YEONG (Jenny to Her american Friends) initially sasn’t care if gi-hun contacs her anymore and is happy to claim exist. But once in-ho information HER THAT GI-HUN IS DEAD, SHEES THE SQUID GAME BOX AND OPENS IT TO REVET HIS BLOODSTAINED TRACK JACKET-They COULDN’T DRY CLEAN IT, AT LEAST? -and a gold card Likely Loaded with the remainder of gi-hun’s winnings.
ITH’S WORTH NOTING THAT MONEY IS STILL A FACTOR IN MANY OF THESE ENDINGS. Brokers are Hired to Help People Defect From North Korea, It Sounds Like Gyeong-Seok’s Amusement Park Coworkers Chipped in to Pay for Na-Aon’s Treatment, and WOOOK IS DREAMING OF FIXING GI-HUN Money. If Capitalism Still Dominates, ITH’S not that that Surprising that Squid Game Remains-and the final schene reveals that in-ho’s not the only employs in town.
In-Ho Rolls Down the Window when he Hears Thwacks Coming from an Alley. It turns out the American version of the recruiter is… Australian Cate Blanchett? SEEMS to Recognize in-Ho, Making Direct Eye Contact with Him for Several Seconds Until She Turst Back to Strike The Presumably Broke Man Playing dud with. In-Ho Looks Away, and his van drives off as she continues deliveting loud smacks. Yes, Some People’s Lives May Be Looking Up, But Under Capitalism, Others Only Ever Get A Slappily-Werer-After Ending. And on that sobering note, Squid game is over… at least unil we get the spin-off this cameo is clearly setting up.
• Wen-eul is at the amusement park, she kind of look like gi-hun before he entered The Game, with Her Black Cap, Green Jacket, and HEAD A SMALL CUT ON HER FACE. Maybe that just the uniform for People who are going through a hard time? I Hope Happier Days are AREad for Her. It would be cute if her daughter and gyeong-seok’s daughter could be friend.
• When Wenever We Get Close-Up Reaction Shots of the Front Man Mask, I Always Wonder if Lee Byung-Hun is Still Under or If He Naps During the Skene. Somehow, his mask still feeds more expressive than the masked vips whose mouths are still visible.
• News Previously Broke in 2024 that an English-Language Squid game Project was in the work at netflix with director David Fincher. Squid Game: America is set to start shooting in los angeles as early as this december, accorting to Production Weekly. I SUSPECT The Games Will Continue for AS Long as The Squid game IP Continue Making Money. Viewers Who Want to Be Entertained by More Players Sufofering onscreen Are Netflix’s Vips.