There's a scene where the protagonist is playing russian roulette with one of the bad guys and when he's down to the last two chambers (they don't spin the gun) the bad guys says "Yeah you could just shoot me, but then you'd just be like all the rest, a piece of trash. You just got lucky." and then to prove a point Mr. Squid Game doesn't just shoot the other guy, but instead takes the 1:2 chance and makes it. Then he passes the gun to the other guy.
When the villain had that monologue I was so ready for the protagonist to go "yeah I did just get lucky, what are you even going on about? I know I'm not special." and then shoot him or something.
How many netflix failsons were allowed to give notes on this?
Was she in season 1? I thought she was a new character with a similar background to another character. She's a North Korean defector who still has family in the DPRK trying to smuggle them into Occupied Korea. Still thought it was a nice plot twist that we assumed she'd be recruited as a player for the games, but it turns out she's a guard who enthusiastically participates in murdering people.
You're actually right it's a new character with essentially the same backstory(mother rather than brother she's trying to rescue/traffic), I stand by my point that they could have shown she was a mask rather than player without damaging the impact of the first game