Squid Game – Season 2 Episode 6 Recap & Review

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Episode 6 of Squid Game season 2 begins with the next game taking place and it is, as predicted, absolute chaos. Gi-hun watches numerous others killed from each door, completely powerless. However, even those behind the doors with the wrong numbers inside are also killed too, so there’s no place to hide.

The room is covered in blood and as the game goes right down to the wire, Yong-sik and his mum are separated when they need to pick 3 to go inside the rooms. In-ho works to rile up Yong-sik’s mum, claiming that she’s been abandoned, but she refuses to believe this. The others still haven’t caught on to what he’s doing yet.

Yong-sik does survive but it’s definitely showing where the dividing lines are. Young-mi ends up killed, which shocks Hyun-ju who’s wracked with pain. However, despite Myung-gi shutting the door and locking it, he did save everyone inside that room so the morals of those inside are conflicted.

It’s clear that the idea here is to go down to 100 players and they’re going to keep going until they reach that point. The final round is absolutely harrowing as all these individuals we’ve followed race for the doors. So who ends up killed? Well, a whole bunch of individuals, but In-ho ends up killing someone inside the room with him and Jung-bae so they survive.

As the numbers get dangerously low, Jun-ho flies a drone over the island searching for clues of the Squid Game HQ. However, he does find a strange trap door that could well be a crucial clue – so he decides to send the ground troops in to look in more detail.

With an assault team in place, they head close to the trap door…but it’s rigged with a booby trap and they end up blowing sky-high. With so many traps across the island, it doesn’t pose well for the operation and the group contemplate their next move.

Back with the games, the remaining characters make it to the dorms, where Min-su miraculously survives. He’s immediately snapped up by Thanos and Nam-gyu, who also make it, while Gi-hun grimly wants to count how many Xs and Os are left behind. It’s pretty close, but Gi-hun contemplates trying to change everybody’s minds. In-ho starts to influence the group and suggests they “stay calm” rather than changing anything.

When it comes down to the voting, some do change their minds, including Min-su who chooses not to proceed. It’s super tense during the entire voting process, which goes all the way down to Player 001. In-ho does, surprisingly, choose not to keep playing despite Jung-bae worried and believing he won’t. So naturally, they all go through to another round of voting since they’re tied… the following day.

The group are well and truly split between those who want to stay and those who want to leave, and they even end up on opposite sides of the dorms. This, of course, means there could be big hostilities that night with the teams trying to sabotage the others into submission.

In the middle of this, Thanos and Nam-gyu end up confronting Min-su and bully him into trying to change his vote. Myung-gi shows in the bathroom and a big fight breaks out between them. Thanos chokes out Min-su, but the latter gets the last laugh here. He happens to be holding a fork and he stabs Thanos in the neck. The same fork that Gi-hun had with his food perhaps?

The Episode Review

The penultimate episode finally sees everybody start to turn on one another, and it definitely doesn’t pose well for the prospects of our remaining players. The battle liens have been drawn here, and while we do see a bit with Jun-ho’s drama, it doesn’t feel like enough to actually warrant this part of the story being as dramatic as it perhaps could have been.

This game though, more so than the others, is absolutely harrowing and this really helps to show the old Squid Game and how brutal the games are. We don’t see many characters we’ve been following killed off though, which is a bit of a shame.

However, everything is set up for a dramatic finale to follow and quite what the results of this next vote will be, is anyone’s guess.