Season 1 of Squid Game was packed afloat of mysteries, twists, shocking reveals, and conscionable shocks successful general—no wonderment it was a hugely popular deed for Netflix that besides raked successful captious acclaim, including six Emmys and a historical archetypal Outstanding Drama Series information for a non-English connection show. So it’s nary wonderment that fans person cooked up ideas astir what to expect erstwhile the amusement returns in December.
In a caller video shared arsenic portion of Netflix’s ongoing Geeked Week, stars Lee Jung-jae (last season’s improbable but impossible-not-to-root-for victor Seong Gi-hun), Lee Byung-hun (the Front Man, decidedly a quality inactive hiding immoderate large secrets), and Wi Ha-jun (determined detective Hwang Jun-ho) propulsion up a seat and respond to instrumentality theories gathered from viewers each implicit the world.
Are Squid Game instrumentality theories the cosmopolitan connection that volition unite america all? It’s wholly possible!
Our favourite suggestions include:
- Season 2 volition uncover much astir the jumpsuit-wearing Squid Game unit from play one, possibly adjacent showing the aforesaid events from their constituent of view. Wi Ha-Jun likes this theory, but… no.
- There’s a peculiar meaning down which colour envelope prospective Squid Game competitors take erstwhile they’re being recruited. Lee Byong-hung deadpans to whichever instrumentality wrote that theory: “I deliberation you’re the lone 1 who thought so.”
- Gi-hun volition question revenge connected the indebtedness sharks who forced him into playing the crippled successful the archetypal place. “Do you deliberation the kind-hearted Seong Gi-hun would bash thing to harm others?”, Lee Jung-jae asks cheerfully, arsenic the footage shows his quality brutally wailing connected idiosyncratic successful play one.
Just astir the lone coagulated info that emerges from the video is that determination volition beryllium “many caller games” successful play two, and “they are each Korean games,” arsenic good arsenic “season 2 is much absorbing than each these theories enactment together.” And, of course, the video reacquiants america with Squid Game‘s trio of returning stars—all of whom are a batch much charming successful existent beingness than the characters they play connected the show.
Season two’s caller 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. We don’t cognize overmuch of thing astir who they’re playing, successful lawsuit you privation to compression successful a fewer much theories! (According to the video, neither Park nor Jo is playing a grown-up mentation of Gi-hun’s young daughter.)
All volition beryllium revealed—or astatine slightest more volition beryllium revealed; there’s besides a 3rd and last play coming—when Squid Game play 2 hits Netflix December 26.
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