It's the very last game of the tournament, and it pits the last two surviving contestants (and childhood friends), the series central antihero Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and ruthless strategist Cho Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo) against one another in the actual squid game, a Korean schoolyard game known for its violence. To nobody's real surprise, Gi-hun wins, but ultimately he tries to save Sang-woo's life - to no avail, as a severely battered Sang-woo kills himself. Gi-hun walks away with a ton of money but a broken man. And of course, it doesn't help either when he finds his mother (Kim Young-ok), for whose benefit he has entered the games, dead in his apartment.

One year later, Gi-hun still hasn't touched any of his prize money, so much so that even his bank gets worried and urges him to invest. Gi-hun is also invited to meet the creator of the games, who turns out to be Oh Il-nam (Oh Yeong-su), the very same old man whom Gi-hun cheated out of a win in an earlier episode. But Il-nam is on his death bed now - and really dies from brain cancer during their conversation. After that encounter, Gi-hun tries to turn his life around, since if nothing else he at least has the means to it, but ultimately everything feels hollow, and ultimately he returns to participate in another round of the games ...

This final episode of Squid Game (or at least the first season of the series) quite cleverly doesn't put too much emphasis on the actual final game - after all, nobody doubted from episode one onwards who would win - but, again just like the first episode, goes for character drama, this way coming full circle. And while this is by no means the most exciting episode of the series, it impresses with its depth and insight. A worthy final episode for sure.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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