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Squid Game Recap: Majority Rules

Gi-hun is back in the game, but nothing could have prepared him for the ultimate twist: democracy.

Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk told The Hollywood Reporter last year that he was thinking about “the direction the entire world is taking,” specifically acknowledging that season two would drop close to the U.S. presidential election — in his words, “the ultimate O-X event.” A piggy bank gives the survivors a visual reminder of the prize money they’ve just earned, and a pink soldier reveals that every eliminated player adds 100 million won. • There’s weight to the fact that Choi Seung-hyun is playing Thanos, the retired rapper who vapes in his ddakji video, brings pills into the game, and delivers dialogue that alludes to getting high.

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