More than three years after the first season of Squid Game, Netflix’s most successful series returns with season 2. In the extensive trailer for the second chapter, we are reunited with player 456.
Wednesday, Dahmer or Stranger Things still can’t match the gigantic Netflix hit Squid Game, which has been streamed internationally for over 1.65 billion (!) hours. That’s just for Season 1. Whether Season 2 can repeat this trick will be revealed later this year. And the official trailer for the new episodes reveals what it will be about:
Squid Game Season 2: The Netflix Death Games Continue
The debut season ended with bankrupt Gi-hun aka player 456 (Lee Jung-jae) being the only one to survive the deadly children’s games. Reluctantly, he finally accepted the cash prize of over 30 million euros and vowed to put an end to the squid games that a group of billionaires use to entertain themselves.
But season 2 continues the story differently than many might have imagined. Instead of attacking the deadly games from the outside, Gi-hun returns as a player in a new round with new child players.
Also back are the recruiter (Gong Yoo), the masked frontman (Lee Byung-hun) and his brother, the cop Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon). Fresh on board, however, is a whole new cast of new players – including Yim Si-wan (Unlocked), Kang Ha-neul (Midnight Runners) and Park Sung-hoon (The Glory).
Season 2 was written and directed by Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, who has not had as much of the success of his format as one might assume.
The showrunner recently told the Hollywood Reporter:
I was inspired by the fact that, everywhere you look, people are drawing lines across lines, whether it’s generational, class, religious, racial, or ethnic. I wanted to tell a story about how the different choices we make lead to conflicts between us, and open up a conversation about whether there is a way to move in a direction where we can overcome these divisions.
