Squid Game Season 3 recently premiered on Netflix, which the streamer has marketed as the final season in the hit dystopian series. However, considering Squid Game season 1 is the most-watched Netflix programming of all time, and the show remains highly popular, there’s always a chance for a surprise fourth season.
Although creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has denied interest in expanding the original story, Squid Game Season 3 left just enough loose ends to stir some possible season 4 theories.
American Squid Game
Squid Game Season 3’s ending strongly hinted at the games continuing in America. By the end of the season, the Korean games fall out of commission. However, the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) happens to come across an American recruiter (Cate Blanchett) playing a game of Ddakji with a potential American contestant. The scene strongly suggests that the games have already arrived in America, perfectly setting the stage for Squid Game Season 4, with the same games but a new setting and characters. Hwang Dong-hyuk didn’t intend to explicitly set up a Season 4 or American spinoff with the tease, but the inclusion of it remains the most straightforward path to continuing the critically acclaimed series.
Gi-hun’s Daughter
In Squid Game, Gi-Hun (Lee Jung-jae) has a young estranged daughter, Seong Ga-yeong (Jo A-in). In Season 1, she’s part of the reason why he enters the game, as he wishes to win enough money to visit her when she moves to America with her mother. Unfortunately, by Seasons 2 and 3, his primary focus is on stopping the games, and Ga-yeong is scarcely mentioned until the very end, when the Front Man delivers Gi-hun’s belongings to her. Given that Ga-yeong hadn’t heard from her father in years, it seems likely she’d want to know what happened to him, especially considering the Squid Game paraphernalia and enormous inheritance he left her. Season 4 could follow her journey to understand what happened, and it could even lead her to the American games.
Player 222’s Baby
Another loose thread at the end of Squid Game Season 3 is Player 222/Jun-hee’s (Jo Yu-ri) baby. The baby takes her mother’s place as Player 222 after Jun-hee dies and goes on to win the games. Orphaned and worth 45.6 billion won, the Front Man places the baby with his brother, Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon). Similar to Gi-hun’s daughter, the baby will no doubt have questions when she’s older about what happened to her parents and the unusual circumstances of her birth. Meanwhile, her proximity to Jun-ho, who is also determined to end the games, means that if the games ever started again, she would be a likely candidate to take up her adoptive father and Gi-hun’s mission to end them.
The Front Man
Squid Game Seasons 2 and 3 delved deeper into the Front Man. While he primarily observed the games in Season 1, the second season saw him disguise himself as a participant in the games. In Season 3, he continues trying to sway Gi-hun to his side, but fails. Although it’s hard to gauge his feelings, it appears Gi-hun’s final sacrifice had an impact on the Front Man, potentially enough to change his feelings on the game. Perhaps, when he spots the American recruiter, it sets him on a path similar to Gi-hun’s and Jun-ho’s to stop the games once more and atone for his past mistakes. Regardless of the specific direction of his story, the Front Man’s power and elusiveness mean he has the most potential to be a protagonist of Squid Game Season 4.
Gi-hun’s Secretly Alive
Whenever a protagonist of a series dies, viewers never quite want to accept it. Gi-hun’s ending in Squid Game Season 3 seemed very final, but some Redditors have already begun proposing theories that he somehow survived and the Front Man swapped him with a wax figure to fake his death. The theory is relatively outlandish. At the same time, Squid Game wouldn’t be Squid Game without Gi-hun, and for those unwilling to accept his demise, it’s fun to imagine Season 4 is on the way with Gi-hun teaming up with baby 222 and stopping the American games.
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