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.

Squid Game Season 2 is now ready to hit Netflix later this December, and we have a whole new trailer giving us an idea of what to expect. Watch this:

Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 gave up going to the states and comes back with a new resolution in his mind. Gi-hun once again dives into the mysterious survival game, starting another life-or-death game with new participants gathered to win the prize of 45.6 billion won.

Compared to the first game where Gi-hun is just as clueless as the rest of the participants, it looks like he’s going to be navigating the game differently this time, actually convincing others to not play the game as it was intended.

Of course, there are some characters that look to be disruptors to Gi-hun’s plan, but you can’t expect any excitement to come from the story if everyone just plays along.

The first season of the show was such a surprise hit that even director Hwang Dong-hyuk had been vocal about not expecting the audience reaction as well. Though it’s great that Squid Game was a hit, the pressure is now on for Hwang to deliver another fantastic season of adults doing playground games to save their own lives.

Hopefully, he’ll manage to stick the landing.

Watch out for Squid Game 2 when it comes to Netflix on Dec. 26.

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Here’s the official description for the second season:

Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 gave up going to the states and comes back with a new resolution in his mind. Gi-hun once again dives into the mysterious survival game, starting another life-or-death game with new participants gathered to win the prize of 45.6 billion won.

We never really knew how Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) planned to take down the games after he won, but it does look like he’s just going to join as a regular participant and try to convince everyone to stop playing the games by confirming that he’s a previous winner.

Admittedly, it doesn’t seem like the smartest plan on Gi-hun’s part, but maybe there’s some kind of mind game that he’s playing with the game masters; and him looking desperate was just part of his plan.

I’ll have to say I was one of the more sceptical people when a second season was announced, but it does seem that director Hwang Dong-hyuk had something planned for a follow-up. Let’s just hope that the series manages to captivate audiences just as much as the first one did.

Watch out for Squid Game 2 when it comes to Netflix on Dec. 26.

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As per the official announcement, the second season of Squid Game is set to hit Netflix on December 26. The video also came with a synopsis for the next season:

Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 gave up going to the states and comes back with a new resolution in his mind. Gi-hun once again dives into the mysterious survival game, starting another life-or-death game with new participants gathered to win the prize of 45.6 billion won.

It’s unclear what Gi-hun is planning by joining the game once again, but hopefully the series has found a way to tell another interesting story that doesn’t just repeat the beats of the first season.

I’ll admit, the plot of Squid Game does sound pretty familiar if you’ve seen these life-or-death-game-shows like Battle Royale and The Hunger Games, but the series manages to set itself apart by execution. Not only are the games uniquely brutal, but the characters are also great, and the series does have a very visual flair that makes for memorable onscreen moments.

I know a lot of people are excited for a second season, but I’m hoping director Hwang Dong-hyuk manages to pull it off again.

Catch the second season of Squid Game when it premieres on Netflix on Dec. 26.

According to The Playlist, David Fincher (Mindhunter, Se7en, Fight Club) has been hard at work developing a Squid Game adaptation for the past two years. Along for the ride is writer Dennis Kelly, who had worked with Fincher on Utopia before he ultimately left the project.

The English version of Squid Game could apparently be Fincher’s next directing gig, but it’s possible that it couldn’t push forward right now as the original series is still ongoing. Netflix head Ted Sarandos had said, “Since the main series is still ongoing, there’s no justified reason for Netflix to do a remake.”

Admittedly, I’m surprised that Fincher would take on a project like Squid Game, seeing that a lot of his more recent projects have been very dark and serious like Mindhunter and The Killer. Not that Squid Game doesn’t get dark; but the show does have a tendency to be more colorful, and the violence can sometimes get a bit too outlandish for a Fincher project.

Then again, if Fincher is able to give his own unique twist to the premise, I’d be open to see what he would come up with. Until it gets a greenlight, all we can really do is speculate.

The English adaptation of Squid Game has not been officially announced, and there’s no release date for the second season of the original show.

According to Deadline, Hwang is now working on a series called The Best Show on the Planet which will be reflection of his overnight success with Squid Game. The how is still in the very early stages of development, and is just another project under Hwang’s belt besides the second season of Squid Game and a movie based on a novel from author Umberto Eco.

Though you can imagine the relief of Hwang that Squid Game was such a huge hit, he sounds like he’s on an enormous amount of pressure to deliver with the sequel. “Season 1’s success has given me an immense amount of pressure and I am having nightmares about the reception for Season 2 not being so good,” he says.

I have to say, Squid Game isn’t the perfect show, but Hwang was able to make the story pretty engaging, despite its clear inspiration from Battle Royale. There are a lot of plot elements that don’t make sense, but there’s just so much tension and drama between characters and the games that you can’t help but binge through the whole thing.

You also have to commend the simplicity of the aesthetics where the Netflix series was able to make the show as dynamic as it was with just a select number of sets. The simple costumes and colors have also managed to stand out, and we can expect years of people just cosplaying in green and pink jumpsuits with circle/triangle/square masks.

No release date has been set for The Best Show on the Planet, but Squid Game 2 is said to be aiming for a 2024 release.

During an interview with KBS (via Soompi), Hwang Dong Hyuk revealed, “I’m currently in the midst of discussions with Netflix about Season 2 and Season 3 [of ‘Squid Game’].” It’s still unclear if the series has been greenlit, but he does say that the discussions are nearing an end. With Squid Game coming out as one of the most popular shows on Netflix in 2021, you can bet that a second season is going to happen regardless of the quality of story they have on their hands.

As for the plot, Hwang Dong Hyuk says that it will follow the story of Gi Hun (Lee Jung Jae) as he tries to unravel the mysteries of the organization. He says:

“The focus [of the season] will be the story of [Lee Jung Jae‘s character] Seong Gi Hun unraveling [the mysteries of the organization behind the game]… The overarching plotline of Season 2 will be the story of the people that Gi Hun meets and the people he chases after.”

Though Battle Royale movies are kind of played out (Hunger Games, the original Battle Royale), Squid Game has managed to captivate an audience with its striking visuals and easy-to-follow plot. Not to mention a great cast of characters that are great to watch clash with each other.

No release has been announced for a second season, but you can catch Squid Game now on Netflix.