This article contains spoilers For “Squid Game” season 3, episode 2, “The Starry Night”.
Whenever “Squid Game” introduces a new deadly game game, viewers know how to expect chaos. Since the show is already in its third and last season, the fans have started to get used to its tips. In my opinion, some of the matches of season 2 of “Squid Game” were quite disappointing, to the point that I started to suspect that the creator of “Squid Game” Hwang Dong-Hyuk, who admitted to having been a little fed up in the series, may be short of ideas. But then came “the starry evening”.
“Squid Game” season 3, episode 2 is the signal for me to eat my cynical words with a generous order of Raven. The team preparations and the frantic pre-match swapping for the hide and seek game have already played in episode 1, so “The Starry Night” has the luxury of diving. First, the blue team of keys hiding places enters the game area, which is a strange “star” labyrinth strewn with raw cream rooms. Soon, the Red Seeker team brandishing knives follows, their lives according to their ability to kill at least one blue player before the timer is exhausted.
The first big match of season 3 is bloody and dramatic enough to blow almost all the matches that preceded it from the water. Just as important, his despair in sweat and his abject horror are based directly in the examination of social injustice and the lowest instincts of humanity which helped to make season 1 of “squid game” a massive blow. With such construction blocks at its disposal, it is not surprising that “the starry evening” is “Squid game” rejuvenated – a tour de force which could very well be the best time of television that the South Korean survival show has to offer.
Danger and the metaphors hide behind each corner of the hide and seek
With a few exceptions-in particular, the fraudulent emerging cult of Shaman Seon-Nyeo (Chae Kook-Hee) and the exterior trio of Cho Hyun-Ju (Park Sung-Hoon), the Kim Jun-Hee (Jo You-Ri), the Jang Geum-Ja (Kang Ae-Shim)-Most of the blues. It becomes a problem when they discover that the game need cooperation. All the blues bear one of the three different keys that open the different doors of the arena, and only Hyun-Ju, Jun-Hee and Geum-Ja Luck Out and start the game with a full set. Of course, this advantage is immediately denied when the group undergoes certain injuries and Jun-Hee enters work …
The Red Seeker team has its own problems. Their ultimate scenario of “killing or being killed” takes place in each nuance of Crimson, because some discover that they do not have what it takes to take a life. Others have their eyes on a very special target, while others still discover the hard way that some desperate bruises are extremely prepared to retaliate.
In addition to the fact that the bloody nature and the hectic rhythm of the game make the episode a real nail belly, the hide-and-seek game is also an exciting watch (although mentally exhausting) because it is absolutely filled with “squid game” socio-economic metaphors. According to the disproportionate resources with which the players start the game with each desperate and stabbing stratagem, you can choose almost any moment of the game, knowing the chin knowingly, and say: “yes … society”. Like most other things in “squid game” is heavy – but the tension and the pure sensory dam “The Starry Night” are proof that when the big ideas of the show work, they work, they work.
The starry night reveals the players of what they are really
Combined with brutality on the screen, the many emotional hooks of the episode allow him to create an air of fear and insecurity where nobody seems really safe (which, of course, turns out to be correctly correct). I’m not going to distinguish individual shocking dead or despicable acts here. If you have seen the episode, you know how good it is to draw the hearts of viewers by teasing the redemption and by offering death instead, then describe all the pivotal moments of the Hide and Seek game would be to describe almost every second of the whole game.
In one way or another, the episode even finds a means of destroying the only character who is practically guaranteed to survive until the last episode: our protagonist, Seong Gi-Hun (Lee Jung-Jae). Closing, the episode bypasses its problem of invulnerability of the intrigue by focusing rather on the torment of his mind. Already a mess recurred after the failure of the revolt of season 2 and the death of Park Jung-Bae (Lee Seo-Whan), the permanent gi-hun puts all his anger and his frustration in an animated attempt to hunt and kill Kang dae-ho (Kang ha-neul) … and goes a little too late than him, like the orchestrate of the orchestra friend. Regardless of what happens to Gi-Hun in the future, he will remember the mental anxiety about the events of this episode for the rest of his days … who, to think, can also apply to the spectator.
