The Cast Of Squid Game React To Squid Game Memes
#SquidGame #Memes #SquidGameInterview We had the honour and delight to sit down with some of the Squid Game Season 3 cast and show them some content that you have been sharing online! Who is watching Squid Game S3 tonight!
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UPI
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- UPI
Beyond 'Squid Game': 5 upcoming South Korean thriller films, TV series
South Korean thriller film "Wall to Wall" will premiere July 18 on Netflix. Photo courtesy of Netflix June 27 (UPI) -- Wall to Wall, Trigger and other South Korean thriller films and TV series are coming in 2025 following the release of Squid Game Season 3. The third and final season of Squid Game was released Friday on Netflix, bringing the hit survival drama to a close. Here are five upcoming Korean shows and movies set for release on streaming services this year. 'Low Life' The adventure crime drama from Big Bet creator Kang Yunsung will have a three-episode premiere July 16 on Disney+ internationally and on Hulu in the United States. Set in the 1970s, Ryu Seung-ryong and Yang Se-jong star as veteran conman Oh Gwan-seok and his nephew Oh Hee-dong, respectively. Ryu is also known for the hit Korean series Moving. Low Life follows Gwan-seok and Hee-dong as they race to find a rumored sunken treasure ship off the Korean coast, taking on fellow fortune-hunters and underworld baddies along the way. 'Wall to Wall' The thriller film from Unlocked writer and director Kim Tae-joon premieres July 18 on Netflix. Wall to Wall stars Kang Ha-neul as Woo-sung, a new homeowner whose apartment turns into "a nightmare filled with financial ruin and mysterious noises from neighboring floors," according to an official synopsis. Kang is known for playing Dae-ho, aka Player 388, in Squid Game Seasons 2 and 3. The cast also includes Yeom Hye-ran as Eun-hwa, the building representative, and Seo Hyun-woo as Jin-ho, Woo-sung's "suspicious" neighbor who is also curious about the noise. "Unpredictable twists" unfold after other residents blame Woo-sung for the noise and he begins to investigate the true source. 'Trigger' The action thriller series from Kwon Oh-seung, the writer and director of Midnight, debuts July 25 on Netflix. Trigger imagines a gun-free South Korea, where chaos "erupts when illegal firearms suddenly begin to circulate, sparking unprecedented violence," according to an official synopsis. Kim Nam-gil (Song of the Bandits) and Kim Young-kwang (Somebody) star as two men who "take up arms for very different reasons." Kim Nam-gil plays Lee Do, a former military sniper-turned-detective who strives to stop the violence and find the source of the illegal weapons, while Kim Young-kwang portrays Moon Baek, "a mysterious figure" with hidden motives. 'Mantis' Mantis is a spinoff of the 2023 action crime thriller Kill Boksoon. Byun Sung-hyun, the writer and director of the original film, returns to co-write the script with Lee Tae-sung, who directs the new movie. Set in the same universe as Kill Boksoon, Mantis stars Yim Si-wan as Han-ul, aka Mantis, an assassin working for MK Ent. Mantis returns from his "vacation" mentioned in Kill Boksoon to find several skilled assassins vying for the top spot. Yim played Myung-gi, aka Player 333, in Squid Game Seasons 2 and 3. The cast also includes Park Gyu-young (Sweet Home) as Jae-yi, a former MK Ent. assassin who was ousted from the group, and Jo Woo-jin (Narco-Saints) as Dok-go, a retired founding member of MK Ent. and Mantis' mentor. Mantis is set for release on Netflix in the third quarter of the year. 'Good News' Kill Boksoon writer and director Byun Sung-hyun is also working on the thriller film Good News, slated for release on Netflix in the fourth quarter of the year. Set in the 1970s, the movie follows "a covert operation" to save the passengers of a plane that has been hijacked in the air, according to an official synopsis. Sul Kyung-gu (Kill Boksoon) stars as "a mysterious fixer who shows up whenever needed to resolve problems." The cast also includes Hong Kyung (Weak Hero Class 1) as an Air Force lieutenant involved in the mission and Ryoo Seung-bum (Moving) as the government official in charge of the operation. Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun attend 'Squid Game' S3 premiere Star Lee Jung-jae arrives on the red carpet at Netflix's "Squid Game" Season 3 premiere at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on June 18, 2025. Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Atlantic
17 minutes ago
- Atlantic
How Squid Game Lost Itself
This article contains spoilers through the Season 3 finale of Squid Game. Ignore all the gore and death, and Squid Game might as well have been a show for children. Its characters face off in playground pastimes, its production design evokes juvenile locations, and its costuming relies on a cheery, bold palette. But the Netflix drama's most cartoonish creation may be the 'VIPs'—the group of bejeweled-animal-mask-wearing, exceedingly wealthy antagonists who helped create the central tournament, in which average people drowning in debt compete to the death for a massive cash prize. The VIPs' introduction in Season 1 was met with derision from some viewers: They were cookie-cutter villains with simplistic motivations and thinly written, poorly delivered dialogue. The VIPs' unpopularity hasn't stopped Squid Game from bringing them back for its third and final season, however. This time around, they enter the fray by posing as guards, shooting survivors of one of the games and reveling in their despair. Later, in the comfort of their spectating room, the VIPs provide blithe yet listless commentary. When one of them sees a player ruthlessly murder another, he praises the twist by bluntly intoning, 'This just keeps getting more and more interesting.' In some respects, Squid Game certainly has become 'more interesting' in Season 3. The players must endure an even deadlier set of games, and the world-weary protagonist, Gi-hun (played by Lee Jung-jae), faces more pressure to make it to the end after barely surviving the previous finale. But the centrality of the VIPs, in their dual roles as both hunters and a Greek chorus of mustache-twirling meanness, points to the primary flaw of this last season: Rather than deepen the capitalist satire that initially made it a phenomenon, Squid Game tries to critique humanity writ large—and delivers shallow thrills instead. The show is still concerned with money, of course. The players gaze ruefully at the growing winnings pot dangled before them; one character makes regular calculations about how much he'll earn if he survives, and another mulls whether to become a loan shark. (Though Gi-hun was the sole winner of the 45.6-billion- won prize in Season 1, multiple victors could split the money in Season 2—by voting to end the games entirely following each round.) But the show used to do more than just gesture at the competitors' financial burdens. In Season 1, many of the rounds were inherently unjust: One requiring players to cut shapes out of sugar candy, for instance, put some of them immediately at a disadvantage, based upon how complicated a shape they started with. The unfairness allowed the show to underscore its theme of social inequality—how, for a person starting with a deficit, pulling even, let alone coming out ahead, can be nearly impossible. Season 3 abandons such insight in favor of more superficial observations. The show's focus is now on how terrible people can be, whether they're one of the tournament's orchestrators or one of its contestants. The players, in particular, face more punishing obstacles that only emphasize their selfishness. A game of hide-and-seek, for example, is stacked against those who work alone, because escaping requires collecting keys from other participants to unlock a hidden door. A jump-rope challenge involves a bridge with a gap, a test of physical prowess that not everyone can pass. These competitions don't seem to contribute anything to the show's intimate dissection of economic anxiety and class struggle; they're plot contrivances meant to intensify the proceedings. Even a major character who had seemed poised to seek redemption turns into a straightforward antagonist by the end. And then there's the matter of Squid Game 's newest contender, whose presence embodies just how much the show has moved on from its original, far richer themes. Jun-hee (Jo Yu-ri), the pregnant contestant introduced in Season 2, has her baby in the middle of playing hide-and-seek. Later, after Jun-hee dies during the jump-rope game, the VIPs decide to replace her with the newborn. The twist is shocking enough, but the ensemble's reaction goes even further: They bicker, ludicrously, over whether it's fair for a baby to compete for winnings. By incorporating a character unable to do anything but cry and coo, the show only highlights its disinterest in more nuanced examinations of human behavior, such as greed or egotism. In one shot, as the VIPs recap this development, the remaining players' bloodied faces surround the newborn in the center of a grid, Brady Bunch –style. The unserious image conveys how much the drama has become a parody of itself. The newborn's inclusion also renders Gi-hun's arc frustratingly inert. Jun-hee, before she dies, asks him to keep her child safe, and he devotes himself to his new purpose. Yet making Gi-hun the newborn's caregiver only flattens him into an obvious avatar of goodness. Take the way he responds to In-ho, a.k.a. the Front Man (Lee-Byung-hun), Gi-hun's rival and the primary organizer of the games. In-ho disguised himself as a fellow competitor in Season 2, gaining Gi-hun's trust before betraying him in the finale. This season, after revealing his true identity to Gi-hun, In-ho encourages him to kill the other players in order to protect the baby. Just as he's about to murder his first victim, though, Gi-hun sees a vision of Kang Sae-byeok (Jung Ho-yeon), a fellow contestant who had been slain close to the end of the game in Season 1. She tells him that he's 'not that kind of person'—in other words, a murderer. But that's an odd assertion for the show to make, because Gi-hun has killed people before. During the Season 2 finale, he shot guards in order to save some of the other contestants who had joined him in an uprising against the tournament's overseers. Murder, then, has already been established as a justifiable means of protection. Season 3 can still be compulsively watchable. Its set pieces remain impressively staged, and the intriguing subplots regarding the tournament's mysterious creation—including the ongoing search for the island on which the event takes place—pick up after being sidelined in Season 2. The finale leaves tantalizing threads that open the door for a possible new iteration of Squid Game. And many of the characters' relationships are affecting, even in their simplicity: A mother-and-son duo learning to care for each other rather than the prize is emotionally affecting, and Gi-hun's quest to exact revenge against a player who contributed to the rebellion's defeat last season briefly brings a fresh layer of tension. But in a television landscape dominated by portraits of wealth, Squid Game, in its first season, was the rare success that scrutinized the cost of debt. Those initial episodes captured the risk of chasing capital and existing in a system that puts a price on every part of life; they served as a study of many slices of society in the process. Gi-hun himself proved a tough protagonist to root for when the show began, as a foolish gambling addict hoping to reconnect with his family but who becomes obsessed with the games anyway. By Season 3, however, the players exist as little else but epitomes of good or evil. Though its epilogue shows how much the Front Man came to sympathize with Gi-hun's perspective—that people are worth saving— Squid Game ends with one more surprise to highlight the tournament's savagery. The story may have depended on the horror of juxtaposing kids' games with life-and-death consequences to convey how being in debt can be a living hell. But in the end, the show turned its insights into child's play too.
Gizmodo
20 minutes ago
- 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.
