Squid Game Season 2 Will Be All About Divisions—and the Fight to Overcome Them

Squid Game play one—about a hopeless antheral who risks everything by joining a mysterious contention wherever your 2 options are triumph (big) oregon dice (horribly)—was surely not excessively funny successful themes of harmony. But according to Emmy-winning director, writer, and shaper Hwang Dong-hyuk, season two volition thin adjacent harder into the thought of radical taking sides.

Speaking to the Hollywood Reporter, Hwang explained he’s good alert that Squid Game play two volition beryllium arriving not agelong aft an predetermination sowed adjacent much part among immoderate of the show’s biggest fans (Americans, obviously), though helium thinks its connection is genuinely a planetary one. ““In Korea these days, we’re seeing overmuch worse struggle betwixt the aged and the younger generation. And you spot demarcation everywhere. There’s nary country for debate, lone hostility. So I was inspired by the absorption the full satellite is taking,” helium told the trade.

He continued. “I was inspired by the sheer information that everyplace you turn, radical are drafting lines, whether it’s by generation, class, religion, ethnicity oregon race. I wanted to archer a communicative astir however the antithetic choices we marque make conflicts among america and to unfastened up a speech astir whether determination is simply a mode to determination toward a absorption wherever we tin flooded these divisions.”

The interrogation besides digs into what inspired the thrust of play two: the thought that Player 456 (Lee Jung-Jae’s Gi-hun) would instrumentality for another circular aft emerging victorious against each likelihood successful play one. (Here’s the authoritative synopsis: “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.”)

Hwang explained helium took a cue from different dystopian tale: “I was reasoning astir Gi-hun’s unfinished quest, and astir the Matrix wherever Neo is fixed the enactment of the bluish oregon reddish pill. He could person conscionable lived happily on, but helium chooses to instrumentality the pill wherever helium becomes alert of the Matrix and struggles to get distant from it.”

The THR profile is decidedly worthy a afloat work to larn much astir Hwang, his background, and what helium thought astir the big-ticket world shows that spawned from Squid Game, a bid that explicitly cautions against greed. The portion besides offers a reminder that there’s a batch much going connected successful Squid Game than satire and slaughter.

“I would emotion for it to springiness you nutrient for thought, to assistance you inquire questions,” Hwang said of his creation. “This bid holds successful it each emotion I deliberation I’ve ever felt successful presumption of the mode I presumption quality beings and the world, each the elements of calamity and drama passim life. It’s each successful there.”

Along with Lee Jung-jae, the formed includes Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-jun, and Gong Yoo, each backmost from play one—as good arsenic caller faces 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.

Squid Game play 2 premieres December 26 connected Netflix.

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