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Warning: Spoilers ahead for Squid Game season 2, episodes 1-7.Squid Game season 2 is finally streaming on Netflix, and it sees Seong Gi-hun returning to the deadly tournament — though some episodes of this second go-round are more thrilling than others. Gi-hun rejoins the Games in an attempt to bring them down from the inside, but his plans go awry from the moment he arrives on the island. With Hwang Jun-hoo and Choi Woo-seok unable to track him, Gi-hun is forced to rework his approach to toppling the tournament. This means he must win Squid Game season 2's new players over to his cause.

Squid Game season 2's ending reveals how that works out for Gi-hun, with the Front Man's scheming as Player 001 finally coming to a head. The Front Man shows Gi-hun how futile his efforts are yet again, forcing him to grapple with the guilt of losing another friend...

This article contains spoilers for "Squid Game" season 2.

The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) is an instrumental character in "Squid Game" season 1, and doubly more so in season 2. After the death of Oh Il-Nam (O Yeong-su) during the ending of "Squid Game" season 1, he seems to wield the primary power over the titular games, which makes him series protagonist Seong Gi-hun's (Lee Jung-jae) sworn nemesis. After the first season reveals that he's actually Hwang Jun-ho's (Wi Ha-joon) long-lost brother Hwang In-ho, he also has a personal history with his kid brother. However, apart from his identity and his status as a former Squid Game winner who's now working as a high-ranking organizer, there's not a lot season 1 reveals about the guy. 

As such, the morsels of information about his personal life he offers in season 2 are extremely interesting. Revelations about the Front Man's history start trickling in after the first episode,...

Major spoilers for "Squid Game" season 2 follow.

"Squid Game" season 1 was a massive hit for Netflix when it dropped in 2021, and fans demanded a second season. After some negotiating, Netflix and series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk agreed to not one but two more seasons, with season 3 set to bring the show to a close. We won't get to that final season until next year at the earliest. For now, though, we finally have "Squid Game" season 2, which arrived right after Christmas to give fans a whole new series of deadly children's games. In an attempt to keep this new season as surprising as possible, Netflix has been playing almost every detail about season 2 close to the vest. In fact, the streaming service didn't even want most of the new episode titles to be revealed until after season 2 began streaming.

Now that season 2 is here, we can finally dive into each episode title and what it means.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Squid Game season 2, episode 2, "Halloween Party."Squid Game season 2, episode 2 gets viewers acquainted withPark Gyu-young's character, No-eul, before delivering a surprising twist— one the burning of Na-yeon's drawing alludes to. The majority of Squid Game season 2 is set three years after Gi-hun's tournament, and the premiere catches viewers up with Gi-hun, as well as Hwang Jun-ho, who survived his encounter with the Front Man. While episode 2 continues their stories, it also introduces a new character: No-eul.

No-eul's early scenes focus on her job at an amusement park, where she dresses up as a pink bunny and hands out candy to children. One of those kids is Na-yeon, a young girl with blood cancer who takes a liking to No-eul's character. Early in the episode, she gives No-eul a drawing of the two of them together. However, No-eul burns it later on. This may seem surprising, especially...

After the Recruiter's death at the end of episode 1, Seong Gi-hun now has to find another way to get to the Front Man. And it all comes down to a party where he'll be able to do so as we see in Squid Game season 2 episode 2, "Halloween Party." Let's get into the review! Spoilers Below.

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It's poor timing, but our fave detective, Hwang Jun-ho, comes in and finds the Recruiter shot dead. Gi-hun is definitely looking guilty right now. But Choi Woo-seok comes through and knocks him out. Right now all that's important is that Gi-hun has a way in. He got the key that almost cost him his life to be able to talk to the Front Man.

Just as I predicted after seeing the promotional images, Seong and the detective are going to be working together. Yay! This is what I wanted. After all, Woo-seok...

The first season of Squid Game is the most successful season of TV ever produced by Netflix. Netflix is the biggest streaming service on the planet, so that's saying a lot. It's a Korean-language series about people who are deep in debt getting recruited to play a series of games for the amusement of a group of shadowy billionaires. If they lose any of the games along the way, they die. But the one person who survives the gauntlet walks away with tens of millions of dollars. And most of the people are financially desperate enough to risk continuing.

In a world where the divide between the halves and the halve-nots is growing deeper and wider, where billionaires are building luxury apocalypse bunkers while people who have worked hard their entire lives can't afford prescription medications, this metaphor hit with blistering force: the rich don't care about you beyond your...

Knives Out 3's new look for Daniel Craig's Benoit Blanc pays homage to Kenneth Branagh's Poirot, with a modern twist on a classic detective. Rian Johnson's crime comedy challenges the traditional murder mystery formula, while Branagh's Poirot movies stay true to Christie's novels. Despite competition, both franchises find success by offering unique styles - contemporary Knives Out versus nostalgic Poirot.

The revelation of Daniel Craig's new Knives Out 3 look couldnt be more ironic after a rival murder mystery series recently wrapped up its trilogy with a box office success. Director Rian Johnsons Knives Out brought Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery formula into the twenty-first century in 2019. The playful, subversive crime comedy messes with the whodunit plot formula, with Daniel Craigs campy Benoit Blanc acting as Johnsons homage to Christies iconic detective Hercule Poirot. 2022s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery saw Blanc solve another case,...

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

The Shining (1997) Blu-ray from Scream Factory

The 1997 miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining will be released on Blu-ray on March 12 via Scream Factory. It has been newly scanned in 2K from the interpositive with DTS-hd Master Audio 2.0 Stereo.

Displeased with Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation, King took it upon himself to write the script based on his 1977 novel. Mick Garris directs. Steven Weber, Rebecca De Mornay, Melvin Van Peebles, Courtland Mead, and Wil Horneff star.

An archival audio commentary with King, Garris, Weber, and more is included along with 11 additional scenes.

The Words and Music of House of 1000 Corpses from Waxwork Records

The Words and Music of House of 1000 Corpses — featuring the complete audio...

Celebrating its 35th anniversary, 1988’s Night of the Demons is a perfect Halloween party movie; not merely because the plot involves a Halloween party, but it embodies the spirit of the holiday.

Director Kevin Tenney (Witchboard) and writer Joe Augustyn veer between creepy and campy throughout the 90-minute runtime. A playfully spooky atmosphere is immediately established by the Scooby Doo-esque animated credit sequence set to a bombastic synth theme by the director’s brother, Dennis Michael Tenney.

The plot follows a group of rowdy high schoolers to a deadly party at the infamous Hull House. As goth hostess Angela Franklin (Amelia Kinkade) explains, the abandoned abode is possessed rather than haunted: “The spirits living in a house possessed never existed in human form. They’ve only existed in spirit form. They’re pure evil. They’re demons.” A seance awakens the spirits, who start turning the partygoers into savage demons.

Hildur Guðnadóttir grew up on Agatha Christie mysteries. “I totally lived for those novels,” the composer says. Ever since then, she has wanted to sink her teeth into story by the famous author. So when director Kenneth Branagh approached her, she said yes. “He wanted to do something darker and almost horror, and that dark stuff was tempting for me.”

Dark moods are a signature theme for Guðnadóttir. The Oscar-winning composer’s work includes “Joker,” “Sicario: Day of the Soldado,” “Tár” and she will be back for “Joker: Folie à Deux.”

The film is based on Christie’s 1969 novel “Halloween Party,” and stars Tina Fey, Jude Hill, Kelly Reilly and Jamie Dornan, with Branagh reprising his role as Hercule Poirot from “Death on the Nile” and “Murder on the Orient Express.” Set in an eerie Venetian villa with a ghostly past, it revolves around a séance Poirot reluctantly attends on All Hallows’ Eve.

A Haunting in Venice marks Kenneth Branagh's third adaptation of Agatha Christie's books featuring Hercule Poirot, and there are many more stories to explore in the future. There are plenty of options for the future of Branagh's cinematic universe, including lesser-known Poirot books that can be transformed into something more extravagant. With 35 more Hercule Poirot novels to choose from, as well as short stories and a play, Branagh has a lot of material from which to continue developing the character and expanding the series.

A Haunting in Venice marks Kenneth Branagh’s third adaptation of Agatha Christie’s books featuring the famous detective character Hercule Poirot, and there are many more of his stories to mine from in the future. Branagh began this series in 2017 with his take on Murder on the Orient Express, followed five years later with Death on the Nile, and then A Haunting in Venice in 2023. The filmmaker,...

This September is a relatively slow month for TV and movies but it’s far from a dead month (unless you count a new Walking Dead spinoff). The small screen sees the debut of new seasons of The Morning Show and Wheel of Time while the big screen features more sequels than we can cover here. (Fans of The Nun should know that The Nun 2 makes its debut on September 8.) Beyond the familiar, you’ll find a series starring Lakeith Stanfield, a dramatization of a weird chapter in recent financial history,...

If you’ve ever wondered what Hercule Poirot might make of being dropped into, say, the Insidious universe – shows everyone’s favourite Belgian pogonophile being drawn into a world of ghouls, spirits and creepy-looking kids. _A Haunting in Venice is set over one long, dark night: Halloween 1947, to be precise. In the City of Masks, a palazzo with a dark past draws together people looking for answers to the mysterious disappearance of a young girl – a group including Poirot himself. Usually a sceptic, he’s forced to question what’s real and what’s imagined, and whether there are forces beyond his formidable intellect out there.

It’s based on a later story of Agatha Christie’s, Halloween Party, one which hasn’t been adapted often and which invited screenwriter Michael Green to go full-bore horror. “When I read his screenplay, it was really spine-chilling,” Branagh tells Empire when he...

Halloween clearly makes for some good TV.

The love affair started as far back as 1952, when ABC ran an episode of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet titled “Halloween Party,” possibly the first Halloween-themed tie in for a network show. That show featured the first role for another actor who would be come part of early days of TV, Jerry Mathers, who went on to classic Leave it to Beaver.

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Other early shows that delivered Halloween themes included The Honeymooners, Lassie and The Andy Griffith Show.

After its early success, pretty much every show on TV jumped on the Halloween bandwagon, some more so than others. Bewitched and Sabrina the Teenage Witch were obvious candidates and broadcast five and six Halloween episodes, respectively.

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