

SEE Best Drama Directing Emmy 2022: ‘Squid Game’ or ‘Severance’ could overtake 3 ‘Succession’ episodesįor the game, Ji-yeong partners with Kang Sae-byeok ( Jung Ho-yeon). That is before they discover that instead of working as a team, they will have to play against their partner in a marble game of their choice, in which the winner gets to move on to the next round while the loser is immediately shot to death. This episode sees the remaining players partake in a game for which they are told to pair up. Of those, the actor chose the last one, “Gganbu,” to submit for Emmy consideration - a choice that will come as no surprise to viewers of the show. That is the first of three installments in which Lee appears. She enlists after being freed from jail for killing her cruel, abusive stepfather and joins Seong Gi-hun’s ( Lee Jung-jae) team in the fourth episode, “Stick to the Team.” Lee’s Ji-yeong is one of the 456 contestants that are locked into a secret location to play the games. The first season of “Squid Game” tells the story of down-on-their-luck people in dire need of money who receive mysterious invitations to join a dangerous life-or-death version of their childhood games in order to win a cash prize of 45.6 billion won (which is around 38 million U.S. Lee Jung-jae (‘Squid Game’): Who will win the Emmy after their SAG Awards duel?
