Season 2 of Netflix’s Squid Game brings back a forgotten character in a major role

This article contains spoilers for Season 2 of “Squid Game.”

“The Squid Game” by design is a show with a huge cast. Well, at least it starts that way – as fans Remember well from the first season of “Squid Game”, The show’s deadly playground games tend to slim down the cast viciously as the plot progresses. Knowing this, it’s only natural that some of the show’s more mysterious characters fail to capture the viewer’s attention. This actually works to the sophomore season’s advantage when it comes to Jung-bae (Lee Seo-hwan), who was such a minor presence in the first season of Squid Game that he’s almost considered an entirely new character for the second season… while at the same time getting… On a useful, pre-arranged date with series hero Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae).

Jung-bae is Gi-hun’s best friend who appears twice in the first two episodes of the first season — “Red Light, Green Light” and “Hell” — and signs up to play the game in the second season. Things weren’t tense enough for Gi-hun, discovering that what may be the closest human contact he has left outside of his daughter Ga-yeong (Jo A-in) is now wearing green overalls is the only thing that raises the stakes (and his stress level). Ji Hoon is very high.

You’d be forgiven for not remembering Jung-bae at first, because his name wasn’t actually mentioned in the first season of “Squid Game.” He’s the goofy and childish bar owner that Gi-hun loves to spend time with in his “civilian” life. Since he is only present during the early, lackluster scenes that take place outside of the game, he is relatively easy to miss and only appears in the first two episodes. However, he is actually present for much of Ji-hoon’s early character development, serving as his partner in crime in gambling and later engaging in a candid conversation outside Jung-bae’s bar before his wife (Kim Young-sun) puts an end to it. He – she.

While Jung-bae has a business, and therefore seems to have his life together somewhat more than Gi-hun, the show’s first episode, “Red Light, Green Light,” establishes that the pair share a love of gambling — and, if If anything, Jung-bae might be the more irresponsible of the couple, given Gi-hun’s constant torment over his inability to be a better man. Since Jung Bae joined the other Four returning characters From the first season and becomes the newest 390 player in the deadly game “Squid Game” Season 2his newly created main character status represents a very dramatic—not to mention tragic—turn in his fortunes.

Season 2 of “Squid Game” is now streaming on Netflix.