The Recruiter’s Squid Game Return Hits Hard

Spoilers follow for the first episode of the second season of Squid Game. 

Life is full of contradictions, like how Squid Game made Gong Yoo slapping ddakji losers in the face both a visceral representation of the central game’s depravity and also something that, well, a lot of people wanted him to do to them, too. Such was the brilliance of casting a man who looks like that as the game’s Recruiter, a role that required him to smile in people’s faces while also telling them how feral...