The primary season of Netflix’s Squid Recreation launched viewers to Lee Jung-jae’s Seong Gi-hun, a pleasant and talkative man attempting to outlive the titular lethal sport. Squid Recreation Season 2, nonetheless, is ready to characteristic a unique Gi-hun — one that’s “heavier” and darker.”
The South Korean survival drama collection, which debuted in 2021, revolves round 456 gamers collaborating in a lethal youngsters’s sport all for a whopping ₩45.6 billion money prize. Lee’s character ended up successful the entire sport, however — because the lately launched teaser trailer said — “the sport won’t cease,” with Gi-hun dealing over the survivor’s guilt.
What to anticipate from Squid Recreation Season 2?
In an interview with Leisure Weekly, director Hwang Dong-hyuk revealed that Gi-hun is a completely “completely different individual” three years after the harrowing occasions in Season 1.
“In season 2, you’ll not be getting the silly and clumsy or infantile at instances Gi-hun that you simply noticed at first. You’ll get to see a a lot heavier, darker aspect of Gi-hun,” stated the director.
Lee then chimed in, saying that Gi-hun — as a result of “enormous quantity of survivor’s guilt” — has spent three lengthy years orchestrating his revenge.
“He spent that point believing that these video games should not proceed, and he should put an finish to it. He spent that point attempting to trace down those that are behind the sport,” the actor stated.
He continued, “Gi-hun is again once more in his inexperienced tracksuit. Gi-hun’s goal is to not play the sport, however to go after those that have created the sport and put a cease to it. In comparison with each different participant inside the sport and likewise himself in season 1, the method that he takes goes to be very completely different this time round. It might virtually be described as a game-within-a-game for Gi-hun.”
As for the video games, Lee confirmed that the second season will characteristic a totally completely different set of video games although “they’re as soon as once more easy youngsters’s video games that lots of children in Korea grew up enjoying.”
Squid Recreation Season 2 hits Netflix on December 26. All 9 episodes of the primary season can be found to stream on Netflix.
