Squid Game Finale Sparks Questions Over Whether the Series is Truly Over, as Surprising Actor Guest Stars

Squid Game's 3rd play finale is present disposable to ticker connected Netflix, and wraps up overmuch of the series' communicative truthful far. But is this truly the end, arsenic the show's creator has antecedently suggested?

Fans accidental a immense Hollywood cameo successful the episode's last moments powerfully suggests different — and that it whitethorn person been added arsenic a deliberate tease for however Squid Game could present continue, should Netflix desire.

Warning! Spoilers for Squid Game play 3 follow.

In the finale's closing minutes, viewers get to spot a caller Squid Games recruiter moving connected the streets of Los Angeles — thing that reveals the Squid Games are genuinely global, and widen good beyond the mentation located wrong Korea that the bid has focused connected truthful far.

And who precisely is recruiting for this Los Angeles mentation of the games? It's nary different than Oscar victor Cate Blanchett, prima of Thor: Ragnarok and The Lord of the Rings.

While Netflix had mostly kept Blanchett's quality successful the finale nether wraps, her engagement had been leaked online earlier this week by notorious manufacture insider MyTimeToShineHello, who stated that the histrion had been formed and that the quality was a deliberate set-up for a imaginable Squid Games "American spin-off that David Fincher is developing".

Netflix has made nary ceremonial announcement connected Squid Games' future, fto unsocial the engagement of Fincher. But the Fight Club manager would surely marque sense, having antecedently worked extensively with Netflix connected House of Cards, Mindhunter, and Love, Death & Robots.

Earlier this week, Squid Game prima Lee Byung-hun, who plays Front Man, suggested the show's 3rd play whitethorn not beryllium the past we spot of the franchise.

"Director Hwang keeps saying it's a finale. But erstwhile I archetypal work it [the script], I felt it could beryllium a finale, but astatine the aforesaid time, it could beryllium a caller start," Byung-hun teased. "It's my idiosyncratic opinion, but if the audience's emotion and enactment increase, we'll ne'er cognize what happens."

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, however, has sounded much definite that his engagement with the amusement is present over, immoderate happens adjacent with the franchise.

"It's the finale for the full series. The full show,” Hwang has said. "It's clip to accidental goodbye."

But portion Hwang whitethorn beryllium acceptable to extremity his clip with Squid Games, Netflix seems to beryllium leaving the doorway open, astatine the precise least.

"This last section isn't without flaws, but it inactive delivers the suspense and cinematic polish that made Squid Game a deed successful the archetypal place," IGN wrote successful our Squid Game play 3 review.

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