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Squid Game fans spot 'fascinating' detail in latest series that 'totally changes' your perspective of the first episode

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Published 14:35 3 Jan 2025 GMT

Squid Game fans spot 'fascinating' detail in latest series that 'totally changes' your perspective of the first episode

Squid Game season two released on Netflix last month

Callum Jones

Callum Jones

Eagle-eyed viewers of Squid Game season two have spotted a 'fascinating' detail that 'totally changes' your perspective of the first episode.

The first season of the hit South Korean survival series took Netflix by storm amid the Covid pandemic during 2021.

The highly-anticipated second season of Squid Game dropped on 26 December 2024, with the action just as jam-packed.

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Warning: Spoilers ahead for season two of Squid Game.

Season two starts off with a bang as Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), fresh off his victory from season one, tries to track down the salesman who first invited him to compete in the deadly games.

Gi-hun uses his massive winnings to track down the recruiter, with the hope of infiltrating the games and speaking to the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun).

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The previous winner of Squid Game eventually spots the recruiter playing a game of Ddakji at a subway station. Sound familiar, anyone?

Well, Gi-hun decides to follow him, but it all goes wrong for him and his associate, Choi Woo-seok (Jeon Seok-ho), as they are spotted and forced to take part in Squid Game once more.

Squid Game season two is out now (Netflix)
Squid Game season two is out now (Netflix)

Rock, Paper, Scissors is the game they are first forced to play, with the added pressure of Russian Roulette.

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The chance of death is seemingly increased further after more bullets are added to the game, but one eagle-eyed viewer has since spotted a 'fascinating' detail that may just prove the game was not as life and death as we all thought.

One Reddit post said: "Why’d the recruiter use dummy bullets in the Russian roulette scene?

"In the recruiter’s first Russian roulette game between the loan sharks, if you look closely you can see that the recruiter actually loaded a dummy bullet (you can tell by the ‘hole’, it’s caused by the primer already being hit by the firing pin).

"So there was actually a 0% chance of the gun firing at first."

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Fans have spotted a 'fascinating' detail about the bullets (Netflix)
Fans have spotted a 'fascinating' detail about the bullets (Netflix)

Speculating further about the meaning behind the first episode, the viewer added: "Then in the second game when they play with 5 bullets, the recruiter adds 3 more dummies and 1 real bullet (you can tell as it’s flat, so the primer hasn’t already been hit). So there was actually only a 1/6 chance of dying.

"Maybe he just enjoyed their suffering and wanted to make them panic even more by adding more bullets, making them think death was pretty much imminent, even if it was only 1/6."

Squid Game season two is streaming on Netflix now.

Featured Image Credit: Netflix

Topics: Squid Game, Netflix, Film and TV

Callum Jones
Callum Jones

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