Netflix dropped the first trailer for “Squid Game: Season 2” on Sunday and it can’t come soon enough.
No one was prepared for just how quickly the Korean masterpiece “Squid Game” would take over global social consciousness when it hit our screens in September 2021. A year into the COVID-19 pandemic, the subtitled show gave people the world over a chance to escape in a reality far more dystopian than our own, yet somehow offered hope through the chaos.
Now, the critically-acclaimed season is coming back Dec. 26, 2024. And it is already packing an adrenaline-filled punch.
The first season introduced us to the game and a host of complex characters who gambled their lives for the chance to win a life-changing sum of money.
The cliff-hanger conclusion of season one was probably one of the best in television history (followed closely by season two of “From“). We left Lee Jung-jae’s character of Seong Gi-hun as he stormed off the plane, clearly not through with his experience of the game. (RELATED: LeBron James And ‘Reservation Dogs’ Co-Creator Team Up For High School Basketball Movie ‘Rez Ball’)
South Korean actor Lee Jung-jae (L) poses with the award for Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series and South Korean director Hwang Dong-hyuk (R) with the Emmy for Outstanding Directing For A Drama Series for “Squid Game” during the 74th Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California, on September 12, 2022. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
South Korean actor O Yeong-su attends Netflix’s “Squid Game” Los Angeles FYSEE Special Event at Netflix FYSEE at Raleigh Studios on June 12, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)
“Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 gave up going to the States and comes back with a new resolution in his mind,” says the official season two synopsis, according to Netflix’s Tudum. “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.”
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Some familiar faces will return for the second season, along with a host of newbies.
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – SEPTEMBER 16: (L to R) Squid Game’s VFX Supervisor Cheong Jai-hoon, production designer Chae Kyoung-sun, actress Lee Yoo-mi, director Hwang Dong-hyuk, CEO Kim Ji Yeon, stunt performers Lee Tae-young, Kim Cha-I and Shim Sang-min pose during an Emmys celebration press conference on September 16, 2022 in Seoul,South Korea. LThe South Korean phenomenon survival drama “Squid Game” has become the first non-English TV series to win best actor and director in a drama series at the prestigious Primetime Emmy Awards. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – SEPTEMBER 16: Squid Game’s actress Lee Yoo-mi poses during an Emmys celebration press conference on September 16, 2022 in Seoul,South Korea. The South Korean phenomenon survival drama “Squid Game” has become the first non-English TV series to win best actor and director in a drama series at the prestigious Primetime Emmy Awards. (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
“The cast and the crew are truly pouring their hearts and souls into filming the second season,” executive producer Kim Ji-yeon Tudum. “I hope you stay tuned and root for us!”
He doesn’t have to worry about that. You can bet we’ll all be back to watch the games begin Dec. 26.
