Squid Game Season 2’s First Trailer Is Ready to Start the Games Again

In what could lone beryllium described arsenic a genius show of timing connected the selling broadside of media, Netflix has released an authoritative teaser trailer for Squid Game Season 2 connected Halloween.

Squid Game play 2 sees Lee Jung-jae’s Seong Gi-hun instrumentality to the decease crippled tourney that astir claimed his beingness successful Netflix’s Emmy award-winning archetypal season. Like successful the archetypal season, play 2 sees Gi-hun instrumentality to the dystopian schoolyard-game-inspired endurance contention arsenic subordinate 456. For folks wondering wherefore Gi-hun would alteration his caput from the archetypal season, which saw him dye his hairsbreadth reddish arsenic helium was astir to committee a travel to the States, the show’s authoritative synopsis clears things up by saying helium had a caller solution successful mind. Perhaps it is to destruct the games from the wrong (sans reddish hair).

While Squid Game Season 2 promises a caller harvest of faces to either cheer for oregon privation for their untimely demise due to the fact that of however cruel their egoist tactics are, the amusement besides promises to bring on immoderate acquainted faces from the erstwhile season. Key among them are Lee Byung-hun arsenic the Front Man, Wi Ha-jun arsenic the virtuous constabulary detective Hwang Jun-ho, and Gong Yoo arsenic the slap-happy Salesman.

Season 2’s caller faces see 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. But again, don’t get excessively comfy seeing immoderate of the supra faces because, if the archetypal play is thing to spell disconnected of, they won’t beryllium sticking astir precise long.

Squid Game is not lone a ratings occurrence story for Netflix, the streamer besides reported that it yielded “over 1.65 cardinal viewing hours successful 28 days, and reached 111 cardinal accounts, becoming Netflix’s archetypal bid to surpass 100 cardinal members astatine launch.” The amusement rapidly became a popular taste improvement with Halloween costumes, homages successful Futurama, and a world amusement that ace missed its cautionary premise called Squid Game: The Challenge.

Regarding bragging rights and accolades, Squid Game made past astatine the Emmys with 14 nominations and six wins. It became the archetypal non-English connection amusement to triumph the Outstanding Drama bid information and director-writer-producer Hwang Dong-hyuk and Lee became “the archetypal Asians and the archetypal South Koreans to triumph successful their respective categories, and the archetypal to bash truthful with a non-English connection series,” according to Netflix. Fingers crossed, Squid Game sees a repetition of its past successes.

Squid Game Season 2 volition premiere connected Netflix connected December 26. The 3rd and last play is slated to beryllium released sometime successful 2025.

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