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The Review Geek
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Review Geek
Squid Game – K-drama Season 3 Episode 5 Recap & Review
Episode 5 Episode 5 of Squid Game Season 3 begins with No-eul entering the base via a vent. Gi-hun returns to the bunker and tries to kill the rest of the players, starting with Player 100. While In-ho watches, it cuts to a flashback of his game. Old Man aka Chairman Oh makes In-ho the same offer. And while he is shaken, In-ho kills the remaining 5 members. At present, Gi-hun stops after he hallucinates Sae-byeok. Trouble is afoot for those on the sea. The pursuit team gets closer to 246 by tracking his boat. Jun-ho keeps searching for the island and In-ho finally radios him. He tells Jun-ho to stop or he will die. Jun-ho refuses. No-eul sneaks into the Officer's room and makes him delete the digital records of 246. Before she can kill him, he reveals that there is a hard copy but only he and the Frontman have access to the archives. Once they are in the elevator, he attacks. They reach the floor but lose the gun in the elevator. The Officer wonders if No-eul has feelings for 246. She reveals that she is doing it for his daughter. We learn that her daughter died in North Korea. The Officer reveals that he is partial to her not because of their shared hometown but because he too lost a loved one. He stabs her and lazily follows as she crawls. While he monologues, she reaches the elevator and shoots him with the abandoned gun. The final game is Sky Squid Game with 3 rounds. The players need to push one or more alive players off a tower to move to the next round. Round 1 begins on a square tower. If they do not eliminate anyone within 15 minutes, everyone will be killed. Each tower has a button they need to press to start the timer and the round. Unable to decide on which Red Team member to kill, the Blue Team agrees to be democratic and vote on their victims. But there is one problem – they need to separate Gi-hun and the baby, so they have 3 targets for all 3 rounds. Myung-gi suggests killing Min-su first to get it over with. Min-su doesn't make it easy but Myung-gi takes out the pole in the middle of the tower and pushes him off. Min-su hallucinates Se-mi and apologises to her before falling to his death. No-eul looks for 246's file in the archive and finally finds it. The players move to the second tower. Gi-hun realises that he has the upper hand as he sets up base on the edge. If the Blue Team kills him and the child now, they will have to pick among themselves for the last round. As the team frets, the hyper 203 starts the timer and Round 2 begins. He insists that Gi-hun will pick his own life over the kid but the rest know that 203 is wrong. Frustrated, 203 gets violent. Myung-gi interjects with an idea. On the sea, the pursuit team finds 246 and shoots at him. He shoots back but he soon runs out of bullets. Before they can kill him, Jun-ho finds them and kills the pursuit team. Back to the game, the Blue Team plays Rock, Paper, Scissors and the loser tries to convince Gi-hun that they will draw lots on who to kill. All they need is for him to join them in the center of the pillar (where they plan to grab the child from him). If he refuses, Plan B is for the loser to grab the child while Myung-gi pushes off Gi-hun with the pole. Unsurprisingly, Gi-hun refuses to move and the loser attacks. But Myung-gi pushes off the loser. Everyone is shocked and Myung-gi tries to convince Gi-hun that he is the child's father. The Blue Team thinks he is lying but Gi-hun recalls Myung-gi trying to help Jun-hee in the jump rope game. Seeing that Myung-gi has the pole and Gi-hun has the knife, the Blue Team suggests drawing lots for real. As the two hesitate, the team suddenly betrays their own member, Player 39 and breaks his leg. They offer to kill 39 in the next round but Gi-hun refuses, wanting to play fair. Having had enough, 203 and another player attack him. After a scuffle, Gi-hun and Myung-gi kill them. Player 100 is nervous as he tries to agree to whatever Gi-hun wants. However, Myung-gi pushes him off, citing that the prized money has just increased. Gi-hun doesn't look happy but it gets worse as 39 decides to kill himself. Gi-hun and Myung-gi try to stop him but he refuses to be anyone's pawn. He jumps off and the round ends. Only Gi-hun, Myung-gi and the baby remain at the end of Squid Game Season 3 Episode 5. The Episode Review It is always Myung-gi taking it too far, isn't it? With the crypto, with the Hide and Seek game and now with killing Player 100. If he hadn't been greedy, it wouldn't have come down to him, his kid, and Gi-hun. Great work, Myung-gi! Squid Game Season 3 Episode 5 is a pretty good penultimate episode, otherwise too. No-eul finally goes head-to-head with the Officer and we learn a whole lot about her. Their dynamic is also explained as they not only know each other from before, but they have a closer bond due to their shared experiences of losing a loved one. Jun-ho makes some headway too and we can rejoice. It only took the poor guy two seasons, 12 episodes and a couple of years in the Squid Game world. We do wish the show had left some more important characters for the final game. Killing Min-su and then the rest of the Blue Team did not pack the emotional punch as Season 1's penultimate episode. It also made Gi-hun and Myung-gi's survival predictable, as no way the final showdown would consist of inconsequential characters like Player 100. Previous Episode Next Episode (coming soon) Expect A Full Season Write-Up When This Season Concludes!
Indian Express
3 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Squid Game 3 ending: 7 burning questions answered in Netflix thriller finale; future possibilities explored
Squid Game wrapped with Season 3 dropping on June 27. The Lee Byung Hun, Lee Jung Jae-led Korean thriller may not return for another season, but it hints at a spin-off, possibly an American one. Since the finale aired, Hwang Dong Hyuk's direction has drawn mixed reactions, with many fans let down by how things ended, especially some characters who felt completely pointless and Gi Hun's fate undoing everything he fought for. The tagline teased how low humanity can sink, and sure enough, survival came at a brutal cost. We got a winner, yes, but not much closure. So here we are, breaking down all the loose ends that still need answers. Also read: Squid Game Season 3 ending explained: The truth about Gi Hun's fate, the mystery woman, and all survivors While some viewers are still holding on to theories that Gi Hun might be alive, there's no real possibility. The core message of the show has already been delivered. The economic divide, the dehumanisation, and Gi Hun's final words, 'We are not horses. We are humans'. were aimed at those enjoying these brutal games, using people as pawns for their entertainment. He makes the ultimate sacrifice in the final round, choosing to throw himself off the tower rather than kill the newborn. But yes, it's safe to say his sacrifice will trigger another story, a fresh web of entanglements. Because nothing really ends here. In the final moments, we see In Ho, aka the Front Man, ordering the island's self-destruction and escaping with Jun Hee's newborn. Cut to a few months later, he's spotted in LA, visiting Gi Hun's family. So yes, Front Man survived and vanished. Jun Ho failed. But what's loud and clear is this: In Ho isn't done. His next move, possibly tied to a global expansion of the Game, is already being teased. Also read: Squid Game Season 3 review: Brutal games and bigger moral dilemmas make you pause and reflect The Latin phrase 'hodie mihi, cras tibi' ('today it's me, tomorrow it will be you'), the words written on the dormitory walls, sugegsting, the game is far from over. Korean writing '사람 조심 바보' ('Beware of people, idiot') teasing player 333 betrayal '안전 제일' ('safety first') was ironically written at the final game. Player 456's game timer reads '4:56' just before Gi Hun manages to eliminate the other player. The 'blacklist players' binder that No-eul skips, hinting that more is yet to come. The original mastermind, Oh Il Nam, is long gone. The Front Man, once a winner himself, now runs the show. In Ho survives Season 3, and as the story gears up for a spin-off, a new player steps in. Cate Blanchett's mystery woman is seen recruiting new players, playing Ddakji, hinting at a new organisation pulling the strings. Meanwhile, operations in South Korea have shut down. After 2 years of digging through islands, Detective Jun Ho finally tracked down the betrayer, Captain Park, and landed on the right one, just as the game wrapped up. But before he could act, Jin Ho gave the order to blow up the island and bailed. Jun Ho and No-eul made it out, but the entire Korean operation went up in smoke, with the Front Man wiping out every trace. So, yeah, the authorities failed again. Still, with spin-offs teased, Na Eul might've already cracked open a lead that changes everything. They appear to have evaded justice for the most part. We saw the VIPs enjoying the deaths and betting on contestants, but towards the end, it seems like they managed to escape. Unconcerned about being caught, they were seen gulping down drinks, which shows continued power and the difficulty of exposing such a powerful, clandestine organisation. There is a big possibility, and it makes sense, given Cate Blanchett's role was a treasure in the very last part as a recruiter, suggesting the operations will now be shifted to America. Earlier, in an interview with talk show host Jimmy Fallon, actor Lee Byung Hun, who plays the Front Man, teased a possibility of a spin-off featuring his character. So either we get that, or the story shifts oversees with Lee continuing his role.
Indian Express
5 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Squid Game Season 3 ending explained: The truth about Gi Hun's fate, the mystery woman, and all survivors
Squid Game Season 3 wrapped its final run with six episodes dropping on June 27. With that, the Hwang Dong Hyuk directorial—Netflix's most-watched series to date- comes to an end, with no plans for another season. Season 3 picks up right where Season 2 left off, with Gi Hun stepping back into the game. Not for the money, not for guilt, this time, he's here to shut it down once and for all. He had previously led a rebellion against the system, but it failed miserably. His heroic act ended up costing 37 lives, leaving him shattered. He was sent out in a coffin. Now, with nothing left to lose, he's back in the arena with one mission. But the birth of a new baby gives him a glimmer of hope. So here we are, breaking down everything that went down in the finale of Squid Game Season 3. Also read: Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk hints at spin-off series, shares plot details: 'There is that three-year period' Players are divided into two types: Knives: Must kill a Key to survive. Keys: Just need to stay alive Myung Gi tells Jun Hee he will protect her and the baby, but ends up killing Hyun Ju, who had just helped Jun Hee deliver her baby. Jun Hee's trust is completely shattered. Geum Ja begs her son not to kill Jun Hee and instead kill her, but he leaps towards the newborn and his mother with a knife. Geum Ja stabs him from the back, yes, she ends up killing her own son. Later, she speaks to Gi Hun, telling him to save others and not to lose hope. That same night, she hanged herself to death. Gi Hun loses his mind. He blames Dae Ho for the failed rebellion. Dae Ho had claimed he'd bring back weapons, but he chickened out. So Gi Hun hunts him down and kills him with his bare hands. Players this time have to cross a narrow bridge or fall to their deaths. Jun Hee is badly injured in the leg, so she hands her baby to Gi Hun and trusts him with crossing the bridge with the baby. He promises Jun Hee that he will come back and take her along, but she asks him not to come. She jumps to her death. That way, Gi Hun can live and raise the child. Her baby becomes Player 222, an actual contestant. Also read: Squid Game Season 3 review: Brutal games and bigger moral dilemmas make you pause and reflect Gi Hun is taken to a private meeting with the Front Man (In Ho). He hands Gi Hun a knife and suggests: 'Kill the rest while they're sleeping, and vote to end the Game with the baby.' Gi Hun asks why he's doing this, and then In Ho removes his mask, he's Player 001. He taunts player 426, saying no matter what he does, someone else will always run the Game. But Gi Hun refuses to follow his path and chooses to play the game, leaving everything on faith. Players must cross three towers. To move ahead, one person must die at each level, being pushed down to death. At this point, the only ones left are: Min Su gets voted off first. Player 100 is killed by Myung Gi too. Gi Hun tells the rest, who are planning to push him and the baby, that he won't give up on the baby and will die with him if targeted. So someone from them will have to die in the next level. This causes a rift in the group, who play a game of rock, paper, scissors, slowly, everyone dies. Now, final showdown: Gi Hun vs. Myung Gi. They fight. Myung Gi falls and dies. But no one had pressed the button, so the Game still needs a death. Gi Hun has two choices: either kill himself or the baby. He lays the baby down and chooses to jump. Looks up, knowing the VIPs are watching from their secret room. Then says, 'We are not horses. We are humans. Humans are…'. The Game ends. The baby wins. Jun Ho (the cop from Season 1 and the half-sibling of In Ho, the frontman) tracks down the island again. His brother, In Ho, orders the entire place to self-destruct and escapes with the baby. Six months later, Jun Ho finds the child and Gi Hun's prize money in his apartment. It's clear, the frontman left the baby for his brother to raise, along with the winnings. No Eul, the soldier who saved a contestant, finds out her daughter might still be alive. Gyeong Seok, the father who joined the Game to help his sick daughter, reunites with her. Woo Seok, out of prison, looks to reopen Gi Hun's hotel. Sae Byeok's little brother is finally reunited with their mother. In Ho meets Gi Hun's daughter and hands her his belongings with the winnings. Who is the mystery woman? The most searched question of Squid Game 3 is the cameo of Cate Blanchett. In the final scene, In Ho is in LA, where he sees a woman in a suit slapping down a Ddakji card. Her identity is revealed, she's a recruiter. This sets up a possible spin-off of Squid Game in America. The Games are still going on. Somewhere else. Squid Game Season 3 isn't a happy ending. Gi Hun dies, and the system doesn't exactly collapse. But it triggers changes. We think so.
Gizmodo
12 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
The Final Scene of ‘Squid Game' Is a Cop-Out
Squid Game's final season is here at last, revealing the fates of the show's heroes and villains. That includes Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), the shell of a man who returns to the deadly competition as Player 456, intent on bringing it all down from the inside. When we first met Gi-hun back in season one, he was a perpetual ne'er-do-well, sponging off his ailing mother to supply his gambling habit and routinely disappointing his young daughter. While he was off trying to win the 45.6 billion won, his mother died, and his daughter moved to America with Gi-hun's ex-wife and her new husband. Season one ends with Gi-hun very nearly getting on a plane to reunite with his daughter, hoping to repair their fractured relationship—but doing a pivot instead, declaring his intention to get revenge on the people who put him through hell. That's what brings us to season two's re-entry into the world of pink-suited guards, creepily twisted kiddie games, and outrageous cruelty, which carries right into season no time for Gi-hun to reach out to his long-lost family in season three (even if he wanted to) since he's inside the game the whole time. But he does share a poignant moment with Player 222, new mother Jun-hee (Jo Yu-ri), as she crumbles with guilt, blaming herself for the players who've died while protecting her and her baby girl. Gi-hun reminds her everyone there made their own choices and gravely tells her about his own daughter. He was a terrible dad, he admits, but watching her grow up gave him great joy. He understands that bond between parent and child, including how complicated the circumstances around it can be. As Squid Game nears its conclusion and 456 meets his gruesome, self-sacrificing fate (the episode title, 'Humans Are…' echoes his last words), there's a smidge of redemption in the show's 'six months later' coda, showing viewers how the surviving characters have fared after the games. The last segment takes us to Los Angeles, where the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) pays a visit to Gi-hun's daughter. She's dismissive until the mysterious stranger at her door lets her know that her father has passed away. He hands her a box containing Gi-hun's Squid Game sweatsuit and a bank card presumably loaded with her father's season one winnings. That would be a fine place to end things, but instead we keep following the Front Man as he's driven through downtown Los Angeles. Stopped in traffic, he catches sight of a woman in a suit playing rounds of ddakji—the paper-flipping game that was used to pluck new players from the subway stations in Seoul—with a random guy, crisply slapping his face when he loses just like the Squid Game recruiter did. The woman, by the way, is Cate Fucking Blanchett. She looks over and exchanges a knowing glance with the Front Man. 'Game on… again' is the implied message. Is this Netflix's heavy-handed way of reminding fans that a U.S. version of Squid Game is coming—something we already knew was in the works courtesy of David Fincher? Is it just a little wink confirming that the Squid Game is, indeed, a global phenomenon, setting up shop wherever there are people desperate enough to risk their lives and moral dignity for cold hard cash? America certainly fits the bill there. Or… is it one last moment designed to leave the story open-ended in case creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, who'd originally wanted Squid Game to be a one-and-done release, can once again be tempted to return? Whatever the intention, it's a weird distraction from the intense emotional roller coaster that's come before. Did we really need a big star to pop up in the finale's closing seconds, especially in a show that achieved such incredible success while hailing half a world away from Hollywood? The lasting impression is 'OMG Cate Blanchett??' above everything else, and that just feels a bit like it's ripping the rug out of the six hours of TV that came before. What did you think of that last scene? Let us know in the comments below. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
Yahoo
18 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Does Player 456 survive in Squid Game? Season 3 ending explained
Squid Game season 3 is here and that means it is time for viewers to finally find out whether Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) will succeed in destroying the games once and for all in the Netflix character, who has entered the deadly competition once more as player 456, has been fighting to survive so that he can tear it down from the inside. However, following the events of season 2 which saw him lose his childhood friend after a failed coup the character is at a loss, believing he is responsible for the death of his pal and so many others. Season 3 tests his faith in humanity even more, as the games continue and he is forced to reckon with his own failings as well as the selfishness of those around him. When he is tasked with helping protect Player 222's baby he has purpose again, but where will that new path take him? And will he succeed in destroying the games for good? Here is everything that you need to know. In Season 3 the last surviving players must go through the final game of the show, the titular Squid Game, which this time is being played on top of three towers. In the game, the players must kill at least one of their competitors by getting them off the tower within 15 minutes to pass. They can kill more than one person if they wish, so long as one player is eliminated in each round. There are eight players in total left, including Gi-hun, Jun-hee's newborn baby who has been made the new Player 222, and the child's father Myung-gi. Myung-gi teams up with the other five players who are ostensibly in agreement over who should be killed: Gi-hyun, Jun-hee's baby and Min-su (Lee David). The latter of which is currently in the midst of a mental breakdown because of his experiences during the games and the drugs he has taken that were hidden in pop star Thanos' pendant necklace. Gi-hun promised Jun-hee that he would protect her baby before she died, and he is steadfast in wanting to keep that oath. However the other players are equally as determined to convince him to give up the baby and let her die. Myung-gi appears to be siding against Gi-hun and his own child for a while, but it is soon revealed he has no intention of siding with the others and he helps pick them all off. The only problem is that he reveals this too early, and the other five players all die during the second stage of the three-part game. This means that either Gi-hun, Myung-gi or Jun-hee's baby must die in the final round for one or two of them to win the games, or they all die. The finale sees Myung-gi try and win the games by forcing Gi-hun to give him the baby and not make it across to the next round, meaning that Myung-gi plans to kill his own child in order to win the games. He threatens Gi-hun, who allows Myung-gi to think he's won by giving him the baby but in the last minute runs across and makes it to the other side with a knife. Myung-gi and Gi-hun scrap, Gi-hun with a knife and Myung-gi with a pole, and ultimately both end up dangling over the edge of the tower. Myung-gi ultimately falls to his death — the only problem is that neither of them pressed the button to start the game before they began fighting. Gi-hun presses the button but rather than kill the baby like he is expected to by the VIPs he sacrifices himself so that Jun-hee's baby can live, and she is declared the winner of the games. With Gi-hun dead, the Frontman aka In-ho (Lee Byung-hun) starts the evacuation order of the island and begins preparing to end the games for that year, but his brother Jun-ho (Wi Ha-jun) and rogue Pink Guard No-eul (Park Gyu-young) are ready to stop them. As Frontman takes Jun-hee's baby Jun-ho confronts him, but ultimately can't kill him, giving him room to escape. The island is destroyed and the police unable to catch the perpetrators, while No-eul sneaks into the boat leaving the island with the other staff members. The story jumps to six months later, No-eul visits with the player she helped escape while Jun-ho is revealed to have left the police. He returns home one day to find Jun-hee's baby in his home, with a bank card that contains all of her winnings. In-ho visits Gi-hun's family in America and gives them his belongings, advising them that he has died. The box contains his Player 456 hoodie and a bank card that contains his winnings from the first game. It is revealed that the games are continuing, and in America contestants are being sourced as Cate Blanchett makes a cameo as the US equivalent of the Ddakji Man. Lee and his co-stars Lee Byung-hun and Park Gyu-young spoke at a press conference in London about the film's ending. The show's creator Hwang Dong-hyuk had shared his reservations about the ending he'd come up with, but the cast were effusive in their praise of how the director closed out the series. "I thought that director Huang's decision that he had made... he was very determined," Lee Jung-jae said. "I'm sure that he went through a lot of internal debate and struggles because, as we all know, this series has been just hugely successful. So when it's a story that big, how do you bring that to a close as director, writer and creator? And especially for a character like Gi-hun, where do you take him? "And so I know that he listened to a lot of other people's ideas as well, we would have discussions among ourselves, among the cast. He would also discuss it with me and the crew as well, but I believe that director Hwang came up with the most adequate, the most unpredictable, the most meaningful and the most intriguing and entertaining ending possible. "So personally, I am very happy with the finale and you all are going to be able to see where it all ends soon. But I can guarantee you it's not going to be what you think." Lee Byung-hun, on the other hand, implied that while the finale gives the series a satisfying conclusion he feels there's room for more if the audience craves it: "Director Hwang keeps saying it's a finale. When I first read it I felt it could be a finale but, at the same time, it could be a new start. "I'm not sure [if it definitely is], that's my personal opinion, but if the audience's love and support increase you never know what might happen!" Park added that she looked at the series as a fan, having come into it later than her co-stars, and so that gives her a different and interesting angle: "If I answer it's as a fan, as one of the audience. So if season 2 was the explanation of the expanded universe of Squid Game, in Season 3 all those questions will be answered really clearly. Squid Game season 3 is out now on Netflix.
