Squid Sport grew to become such successful upon its premiere in 2021 as a result of a number of components, however one which was universally acclaimed by each critics and audiences was the characters. The video games themselves are definitely distinctive, and it’s terrifying to observe the characters you spend time with be put in such grave hazard, nevertheless it’s the time between competitions that provides the viewer an opportunity to look into the contestants’ lives. One of many extra fascinating gamers launched in Season 2 is Park Yong-sik/Participant 007 (Yang Dong-geun), who finds himself competing within the video games together with his mom, who’s solely there to assist repay his debt. Throughout a current Netflix featurette, Yang lately revealed that his character having such a tender-hearted nature and look after his mom wasn’t all the time the plan:

Yang: The director initially imagined Yong-sik to be a stronger, extra bully-like character.

Kang: Sort of sleazy.

Yang: However simply having his mother there within the sport with him brings out utterly completely different sides of him. That is really the coiffure the director requested. So primarily based on the coiffure, he would not come throughout because the robust character the director had in thoughts in any respect. He seems relatively cute, dorky, and a bit goofy.

Park Yong-sik being one other bully within the competitors would have utterly modified the sport’s dynamic; a number of characters are already filling that function, and one other one may need flipped the scales of energy an excessive amount of within the unsuitable course. Park’s relationship together with his mom is likely one of the extra heartfelt side of the video games in Season 2, giving the viewers a motive to spend money on different characters in addition to Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), particularly together with his mom proving to be extra of a matronly determine to extra than simply her son. Yang Dong-geun and director Hwang Dong-hyuk made the proper selection by switching Park’s character to focus extra on his tender facet relatively than making an attempt to push different gamers round, particularly contemplating Thanos (Choi Seung-hyun) was lurking as the final word bully till he finds himself with a fork in his neck.

Is ‘Squid Sport’ Season 3 Coming Out This 12 months?

Netflix has confirmed that the third and remaining season of Squid Sport shall be launched later this yr, and whereas the platform has not formally introduced a date for Season 3, we nonetheless have some thought of when it could be coming. In a now-deleted video that was posted on the Netflix Korea YouTube channel, Squid Sport Season 3 was given a June 27 launch date, lower than six months from now. Whereas this has not been confirmed and is topic to alter, it’s seemingly nonetheless going to be in the identical launch window.

All episodes of Squid Sport Season 2 are actually streaming. Keep tuned to Collider for extra updates and protection of the collection and watch Squid Sport solely on Netflix.

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