Don't lose your marbles - spoilers ahead for the second season of "The Squid Game."

If you watched the first season of the unexpected (yet massive) South Korean hit Squid Game when it premiered in 2021, there are a few things to remember: especially if you only remember the titular deadly game that pits 456 desperate players against each other for a huge payout. As Seong Gi-hoon (Lee Jung-jae) struggles through the games themselves, a detective - Hwang Joon-ho, played by Wi Ha-joon - infiltrates the games posing as a security guard in an attempt to rise up and expose the mysterious masked front man. After a fun little mission, Joon-ho comes face-to-face with the unmasked frontman only to realize it's his missing brother Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hoon), who got the game many years before and is now involved in their entire process.

In-ho shoots his brother and apparently leaves him for dead, causing Joon-ho to fall off the side of a cliff and into the ocean. At the beginning of the season of The Squid Game, Joon-ho wakes up in the hospital with his worried mother by his side, at which point the story jumps forward two whole years. Now, Joon-ho tries to find his brother again and exhibited the games together with Gi-hoon, but his story it stinks. Why? He didn't do anything.

Here's what Joon-ho does in "Squid Game" Season 2: nothing noticeable. The first time we see him post-coma, he's no longer a detective and instead works as a traffic cop, writing tickets and looking pretty miserable. However, in his spare time, Joon-ho sails around in a boat trying to find the mysterious island where the games are held.

Later, Joon-ho bonds with Gi-hoon and realizes that they are both gunning for In-ho, and the two start working together. (Also, Joon-ho does no (Tell Gi-hoon that Front Man is his brother.) After placing a tracker in the false tooth implanted in Gi-hoon's mouth, Joon-ho waits with his crew on a ship and hopes that they can track him down. the island large enough to accommodate the massive game. Unfortunately for everyone involved, Gi-hoon arrives at the game and suddenly realizes that the implant was removed while he was unconscious (players are gassed and knocked out before arriving at matches so they don't know where they are).

As for Joon-ho, he spends the rest of the season on a boat, trying to find Joon-ho and the island and getting absolutely nowhere. On top of that, whenever the show pulls away from the games to remind us that Joon-ho is still at sea, the pacing drags. It honestly feels like Season 2 could have cut out Joon-ho entirely and had it work just fine, but maybe this is all meant as a setup for Joon-ho to have a bigger role in the third and final season of the Netflix series.

It is depressing that Joon-ho, who was a fascinating character in Season 1, is relegated to searching through buckets of friends and sitting on a boat while Gi-hoon gets all the interesting lines. Unfortunately for Joon-ho Stan, he's mostly just sailing around looking at the islands, and even the eleventh-hour twist that the ship's captain might be a double agent is severely undercut by how boring is all this. By the end of season 2, Joon-ho is still no closer to finding Gi-hoon and the island. It is literally neglected. Hopefully, in Season 3 of The Squid Game, Joon-ho will do something interesting again, since his story for Season 2 was a major failure.

Season 2 of The Squid Game is streaming on Netflix now.