Squid Game: The Challenge Finale: A Second Multi-Millionaire Has Emerged Victorious — Grade It!
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“Squid Game: The Challenge” just crowned its second multi-millionaire.
Heading into the Netflix competition series’ Season 2 finale, the only contestants left standing are Dajah Graham (Player 302), Trinity Parriman (Player 398), Vanessa Clements (Player 17), Steven Jones (Player 183), and Perla Figuereo (Player 72). While everyone is pretty stoked to get their fancy, schmancy new ‘fits (5/5, might I add?), the stress of the game cuts their celebration short. Because four more players are doomed to “die.” (Or, you know, fake their deaths and put on their best Oscar-worthy performances as a baggie full of paint explodes inside their new threads. The deaths may be fake, but the tears are oh-so-real.)
So who walked away with the $4.56 million? Let’s break it all down.
At the top of the finale, the players approach their seafood dinner and take their seats at random. The pink guards then serve them some steak that looks absolutely fab. While Steven discusses his poker career (withholding how much money he’s actually made), Dajah is eyeing him from across the table. If she could cut just one player, Steven’s her target. But will she get her chance? While noshing on their eats, the players talk about their struggles in life and who they’d want to help if they do, in fact, win the money. But their conversation is interrupted by… a new game!
Five coins are presented to them, four gold and one black. It’s a game of bluffing and odds, but whoever is left with the black coin by the time the game ends will be “killed.” Right from the jump, Trinity takes the black coin from Steven, as tears begin to fall down his cheeks. (So. Much. Crying.) Trinity then tells them that it’s gotten too hard to eliminate players, and he wants them all to advance to the next round. One by one, he tells the women which hand holds the gold coin, and one by one they all pass to the next stage. As for Player 398, he officially falls on his sword and is doomed with the exploding ink of death.
Red Light, Green Light Returns!
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Like the many reality competition series before it, “Squid Game: The Challenge” has repeated a whole lot of games from its debut season, for better or for worse. (Worse. Certainly, for worse. The new games this season — like Slides and Ladders — have been the most compelling to watch.) So ending on Red Light, Green Light? I don’t love it. And from the looks of it, three out of the four remaining players aren’t going to like it either!
The next day, the guards come to collect the players, and when they see that looming, ominous girly doll from Red Light, Green Light, they are shooketh! There’s a twist! This time, they aren’t just competing against the doll. They’re racing against each other! The first person to cross the finish line will win the season, the cash and the glory.
When the dolly begins to sing, everyone lunges forward, only Player 17, Vanessa, is eliminated on the first round. Steven is in the lead, but will he shoot himself in the foot? The finish line is in sight, but the two women, Dajah and Perla, aren’t too far behind. But when the music kicks back on, Steven falls while trying to stop and he’s promptly eliminated from the game.
With only two ladies left, the pressure is ON. Both Dajah and Perla are playing very conservatively, running forward in fits and starts but stopping themselves well before the doll turns. But then something shocking happens. Player 302 (Dajah) hears a pop in her ankle, and she falls to the ground. She’s unable to continue and is eliminated, leaving only Perla left to cross the finish line and snag that $4.56 million bag! The front man emerges to make it official: Player 72 is the winner of “Squid Game: The Challenge!”
Now it’s your turn! Did the right player win Season 2 of “Squid Game: The Challenge”? Vote in our polls below, then hit that comments section!
