Most of the main characters in the first season of Squid Game had died, so it was only obvious that the next season of the show is going to feature a whole new bunch of players that will be stuck with Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae).
Just in, we have a new featurette giving a closer look at all the new characters being introduced in the second season, and it also includes a group of young people called Thanos Team. Check this out:
Though most of the Squid Game characters are going to be new this season, there are some players who actually had minor roles in Season One; for example, Jung-bae (Lee Seo-hwan) was in the first season as Gi-hun’s gambling buddy. He never got to participate in the game, but it looks like he’s going to be in the shit with Gi-hun now.
One character that also sparked controversy is Hyun-ju, a trans woman who is being played by a straight cis actor Park Sung-hoon. In the story, Hyun-ju is a former special forces member, and she joins the games to be able to pay for her gender-affirming surgery.
There are also a bunch of other colourful players, like a mother-son pairing, a North Korean defector, a shamed Youtube influencer, and a father with a daughter that has blood cancer.
While a lot of the new characters are desperate for money, there is one group of young kids who are described as people who don’t really care about the money, but are more in it for the thrill—and that’s Thanos team. Led by their rapper leader Thanos, it looks like they’re going to be one of the main antagonist groups in the season—a real problem for Gi-hun since he’s trying to get everyone to cooperate and finish the games.
So far, the new set of characters looks great, and it’s definitely going to be heartbreaking when we see some of them go.
Watch out for Squid Game Season 2 when it comes out on Netflix on Dec. 26.
