Squid Game Season 2’s New Poster Teases a Gory Return

Netflix’s gruesome, ratings-smashing (fictional) contention volition soon beryllium backmost successful play, and arsenic this caller poster for Squid Game play two teases, “the crippled volition not stop.” Its players, of course, are often stopped—forever, and successful hideous ways—when they neglect successful immoderate twisted situation gets thrown astatine them.

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Season one’s Player 392 met his extremity aft failing to carve the due signifier from his honeycomb during “The Man With the Umbrella” episode; whoever wears the fig this circular looks to beryllium gathering his ain grim elimination. First-look pictures from play 2 suggest that Lee Jung-jae’s winning protagonist, Seong Gi-hun, volition erstwhile again beryllium Player 456 erstwhile helium returns to the battlefield.

Here’s the authoritative synopsis of play two, which is tantalizingly vague: “Three years aft winning Squid Game, Player 456 gave up going to the states and comes backmost with a caller solution successful his mind. Gi-hun erstwhile again dives into the mysterious endurance game, starting different life-or-death crippled with caller participants gathered to triumph the prize of 456 cardinal won.”

Given the brutal quality of what went down successful play one, there’ll beryllium an astir wholly caller formed moving nether director-writer-producer Hwang Dong-hyuk—but determination volition beryllium a fewer acquainted faces alongside Lee arsenic Gi-hun: Lee Byung-hun arsenic the sinister Front Man, Wi Ha-jun arsenic determined constabulary detective Hwang Jun-ho (who besides happens to beryllium the Front Man’s brother), and Gong Yoo arsenic the slippery Salesman.

New formed members see 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-hyun, Roh Jae-won, Jo Yu-ri, and Won Ji-an. Don’t get excessively attached to anyone!

Not lone was the archetypal Squid Game a ratings smash for Netflix—the streamer reported the amusement notched “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”—it took connected a taste beingness of its own, spawning a spin-off world bid (also connected Netflix), Halloween costumes, a caller Futurama homage, and more. It besides made past astatine the Emmys with 14 nominations and six wins; it was the archetypal non-English connection amusement to gain an Outstanding Drama Series nom, and Hwang (who won for champion directing for a play series) and Lee (best histrion successful a play series) were “the archetypal Asians and the archetypal South Koreans to triumph successful their respective categories, and the archetypal ones to bash truthful with a non-English connection series,” according to Netflix.

Will each that history-making repetition itself erstwhile Squid Game play 2 arrives connected Netflix December 26? A 3rd and last play has already been announced arsenic arriving successful 2025.

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