In what might solely be described as a genius show of timing on the advertising and marketing facet of media, Netflix has launched an official teaser trailer for Squid Recreation Season 2 on Halloween.
Squid Game season 2 sees Lee Jung-jae’s Seong Gi-hun return to the loss of life sport event that just about claimed his life in Netflix’s Emmy award-winning first season. Like within the first season, season 2 sees Gi-hun return to the dystopian schoolyard-game-inspired survival competitors as participant 456. For folk questioning why Gi-hun would change his thoughts from the primary season, which noticed him dye his hair pink as he was about to board a visit to the States, the present’s official synopsis clears issues up by saying he had a brand new decision in thoughts. Maybe it’s to destroy the video games from the within (sans pink hair).
Whereas Squid Recreation Season 2 guarantees a brand new crop of faces to both cheer for or want for his or her premature demise due to how merciless their egoist ways are, the present additionally guarantees to convey alongside some acquainted faces from the earlier season. Key amongst them are Lee Byung-hun because the Entrance Man, Wi Ha-jun because the virtuous police detective Hwang Jun-ho, and Gong Yoo because the slap-happy Salesman.
Season 2’s new faces embody actors Yim Si-wan, Kang Ha-neul, Park Gyu-young, Lee Jin-uk, Park Sung-hoon, Yang Dong-geun, Kang Ae-sim, Lee David, Choi Seung-hyung, Roh Jae-won, Jo Yu-ri, and Wong Ji-an. However once more, don’t get too comfy seeing any of the above faces as a result of, if the primary season is something to go off of, they received’t be sticking round very lengthy.
Squid Recreation will not be solely a ratings success story for Netflix, the streamer also reported that it yielded “over 1.65 billion viewing hours in 28 days, and reached 111 million accounts, turning into Netflix’s first collection to surpass 100 million members at launch.” The present shortly grew to become a pop cultural phenomenon with Halloween costumes, homages in Futurama, and a actuality present that tremendous missed its cautionary premise known as Squid Game: The Challenge.
Relating to bragging rights and accolades, Squid Recreation made historical past on the Emmys with 14 nominations and 6 wins. It grew to become the primary non-English language present to win the Excellent Drama collection nomination and director-writer-producer Hwang Dong-hyuk and Lee grew to become “the primary Asians and the primary South Koreans to win of their respective classes, and the primary to take action with a non-English language collection,” according to Netflix. Fingers crossed, Squid Recreation sees a repeat of its previous successes.
Squid Recreation Season 2 will premiere on Netflix on December 26. The third and closing season is slated to be launched someday in 2025.
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