The primary season of Netflix’s Squid Sport launched viewers to Lee Jung-jae’s Seong Gi-hun, a pleasant and talkative man making an attempt to outlive the titular lethal sport. Squid Sport Season 2, nevertheless, is about to characteristic a unique Gi-hun — one that’s “heavier” and darker.”
The South Korean survival drama sequence, which debuted in 2021, revolves round 456 gamers collaborating in a lethal youngsters’s sport all for a whopping ₩45.6 billion money prize. Lee’s character ended up profitable the entire sport, however — because the not too long ago launched teaser trailer said — “the sport won’t cease,” with Gi-hun dealing over the survivor’s guilt.
What to anticipate from Squid Sport Season 2?
In an interview with Leisure Weekly, director Hwang Dong-hyuk revealed that Gi-hun is a completely “totally different particular person” three years after the harrowing occasions in Season 1.
“In season 2, you’ll not be getting the silly and clumsy or infantile at occasions Gi-hun that you simply noticed at first. You’re going to get to see a a lot heavier, darker facet of Gi-hun,” mentioned the director.
Lee then chimed in, saying that Gi-hun — as a result of “large quantity of survivor’s guilt” — has spent three lengthy years orchestrating his revenge.
“He spent that point believing that these video games should not proceed, and he should put an finish to it. He spent that point making an attempt to trace down those that are behind the sport,” the actor mentioned.
He continued, “Gi-hun is again once more in his inexperienced tracksuit. Gi-hun’s function is to not play the sport, however to go after those that have created the sport and put a cease to it. In comparison with each different participant throughout the sport and in addition himself in season 1, the strategy that he takes goes to be very totally different this time round. It might virtually be described as a game-within-a-game for Gi-hun.”
As for the video games, Lee confirmed that the second season will characteristic a totally totally different set of video games although “they’re as soon as once more easy youngsters’s video games that a whole lot of youngsters in Korea grew up enjoying.”
Squid Sport Season 2 hits Netflix on December 26. All 9 episodes of the primary season can be found to stream on Netflix.
