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Squid Game Rebukes Its Own Popularity
Season two of the Netflix phenomenon sinks its claws into the proletariat.
Sniper rifles executing the debt-plagued and trod-upon; a gigantic gold-plated piggy bank brimming with bundles of blood money; global elites donning gilded animal masks to signify their position at the top of the food chain — these are not the images of a show trafficking in ambiguity. Season two opens with this dual hunt, and uses agilely edited montages of Gi-hun chasing leads all around Seoul and Jun-ho hitting investigative dead ends to establish the ratcheting pressure of a heist — a genre whose viewing satisfaction is tied to our expectation that the central scheme or caper will work out for our protagonists. Once Gi-hun is back on the island, he serves as the straight man and anguished leader to a new cast of characters, including Jung-Bae (Lee Seo-hwan), a friend and coworker from his old factory job; MG Coin (Yim Si-wan), a crypto bro who scammed people with bad advice; and Hyun-ju (Park Sung-hoon), a trans military veteran saving up for her gender-affirming surgery.
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