This text incorporates spoilers for “Squid Sport” season 2.
The Entrance Man (Lee Byung-hun) is an instrumental character in “Squid Sport” season 1, and doubly extra so in season 2. After the loss of life of Oh Il-Nam (O Yeong-su) throughout the ending of “Squid Game” season 1, he appears to wield the first energy over the titular video games, which makes him sequence protagonist Seong Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) sworn nemesis. After the primary season reveals that he is truly Hwang Jun-ho’s (Wi Ha-joon) long-lost brother Hwang In-ho, he additionally has a private historical past along with his child brother. Nevertheless, other than his id and his standing as a former Squid Sport winner who’s now working as a high-ranking organizer, there’s not quite a bit season 1 reveals in regards to the man.
As such, the morsels of details about his private life he affords in season 2 are extraordinarily attention-grabbing. Revelations in regards to the Entrance Man’s historical past begin trickling in after the primary episode, “Bread and Lottery,” is finished with the heavy lifting about Gi-hun’s and Jun-ho’s life circumstances and respective aspirations. Episode 2, “Halloween Get together,” teaches us that the character wasn’t at all times alone on this world — as an alternative, he as soon as had a spouse who’s now useless. What’s extra, it seems that Jun-ho and In-ho are literally step brothers.
There’s additionally an excellent motive why Jun-ho is so dedicated to his brother regardless of his obvious supervillainy: The Entrance Man has truly donated a kidney to him, which suggests a life debt that little doubt reinforces the (step)concord the detective-turned-traffic cop feels towards In-ho. It might additionally seem that the Entrance Man has been fairly corrupt even earlier than his Squid Sport profession, and accepted bribes — although it appears he did it to assist his dying spouse.
The reality in regards to the Entrance Man is certainly one of Squid Sport’s enduring mysteries
In “Squid Game” season 2 episode 3, “001,” we discover out that the Entrance Man is competing as the sport’s new Participant 001. He quickly allies himself with Gi-hun — who does not know what the Entrance Man seems like, and particularly re-enters the sport to show a degree to the Squid Sport mastermind. This makes the Entrance Man a extremely untrustworthy presence throughout the video games, in fact. Nonetheless, his rapport with Gi-hun — whereas very seemingly pretend — not less than appears real, and he affords some details about his background that traces up with the issues we have discovered about him earlier than he joins the sport as a participant. Notably, he mentions taking bribes up to now. Then once more, he additionally claims that his spouse continues to be alive and wishes an organ transplant, which is likely to be what truly occurred to his partner sooner or later earlier than her loss of life, however is however a lie.
The Entrance Man’s nefarious antics had been at all times among the many things “Squid Game” fans need to remember before watching season 2. Now that the sophomore season is definitely out, it is more and more clear that the character hides even deeper secrets and techniques than anybody may have anticipated, and the present appears content material to take a seat on its solutions earlier than “Squid Game” ends with season 3.
“Squid Sport” season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.
