Squid Game Returns For Season 2
Believe it or not, it’s already been three years since Squid Game arrived on our screens and took the world by storm, becoming the show that everyone was watching and everyone wanted you to watch. The pop culture sensation ensured that a second season was sure to be greenlit, and it’s now finally here. The monster hit is a tough act to follow – can the second season live up to the hype as one of this year’s most anticipated shows?
What will Season 2 of Squid Game be about?
Despite Squid Game’s mega-success around the world (only Stranger Things and Wednesday have gotten close to the show’s Netflix numbers), it remained up in the air for a while as to whether we’d get more stories from the Korean thriller’s dystopian world. Eventually, Season 2 was (inevitably) greenlit, but we’ve all been wondering: where does the show go from here?
As great as Squid Game was, it perhaps seemed difficult to know exactly where things might go in a further season, with the first telling a pretty self-contained story. Just as a refresher, Squid Game is based around a group of 456 players attempting to survive deadly games in a secret location in Korea to win a life-changing amount of money.
Just as a refresher, Squid Game is based around a group of 456 players attempting to survive deadly games.
Season 1 ended with (Spoilers, if you’re one of the few people that hasn’t binged the whole thing) our deeply in debt central protagonist Gi-hun (Lee Jung-Jae) finally triumphing at the end of the gruelling and violet ordeal and being awarded the huge prize sum. But he’s left shaken and unenthused about his winnings and also finds his mother died while he was away.
Now, Gi-hun is back, with the narrative picking up some time after where Season 1 left off. It’s been three years since he won the Squid Game, and he wants to investigate the shady and murderous event a bit further from what was revealed to him at the time. He ditches a plan to move to the United States and instead decides he has to find those who put him and so many others through that horrific ordeal and put them out of commission for good.
He’ll once again be entering the game as a contestant, plunging himself back into the madness he thought he left behind- but other than these few details, there’s not much else we know about the plot.
He’ll once again plunge himself back into the madness he thought he left behind.
There have been two short teasers for the new season so far, one with Gi-hun with dyed red hair taking a phone call at an airport. The voice on the other end of the line tells him he’ll “regret the choice you made”, but Gi-hun assures the caller that he’ll find him “whatever it takes.” The second, titled “Welcome Players” released a few days ago and is even less explanatory, showing the uniforms of various contestants with that same creepy music, before Gi-hun himself is revealed. “The real game begins” it teases, indicating things are about to get even hairier.
When does Squid Game Season 2 release?
The new season drops on Netflix later on 26th December as a Boxing Day treat, and it’s been announced that it’ll be followed by a third and final season in the future. Mark your calendars.
