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Squid Game is back with more blood and a taste for revenge.

Netflix’s biggest ever series, which launched in September 2021, returns for its second season later this month and it’s just as dystopian, violent and vicious as the first with more than 450 new characters to kill off.

The first season, which scored 14 Emmy nominations including wins for star Lee Jung-jae and creator Hwang Dong-Hyuk for directing, was inspired by the Korean financial collapse.

The world, according to Dong-Hyuk, otherwise known as Director Hwang, is just as screwed up as it previously was, inspiring him to go back to the island for another round of Squid Game.

The second season starts with Seong Gi-hun, otherwise known as Player 456, played by Lee, searching for the people behind the game, three years after winning it. He’s using the ₩45.6 billion prize to fund this search, helped by a large group of ne’er-do-wells and underworld figures,...

Netflix’s latest Korean romance-mystery drama, The Trunk, questions the basis of conjugal relationships in a time when increasingly fragmented lifestyles have created an existential crisis—pitting self-centered endeavors against the notion of companionship. The idea of marital relationships functioning solely on the basis of personal necessities, as a transactional affair, is an extension of issues like fear of commitment, emotional baggage, lack of self-reflection, and acceptance of personal drawbacks. Needless to say, exploring topics such as these will need the backing of strong performances by the cast, something which The Trunk doesn’t lack one bit. The complexities of the emotional intricacies of the narrative were expertly handled by the ensemble cast, allowing viewers to relate with the characters and even the supporting cast, a number of whom played the role of comic relief, proving their excellence with the roles they were given.

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Imagine you live in a world where contract marriages don’t even turn heads. Where the institute itself is to be improved upon. Where you can be married to someone for a year and then forget about them forever. The Trunk tells the story of a man who is forced into a contract marriage by his ex-wife as a test for them to get back together a year later (I know!). However, this contract marriage completely changes this man, Jeong-Won’s life. The series begins with the titular mysterious trunk being found in the middle of a lake. The series follows two mysteries, one of the trunk and one of the marriage itself.

Seo Hyun-Jin’s highly anticipated comeback with Hallyu superstar Gong Yoo has finally graced our screens, and fans will not be disappointed. The mystery series dives straight into the story without wasting any time. Visually, this K-drama...

The Korean drama, The Trunk, is a mix of thriller and romance starring Seo Hyeon-jin and Gong Yoo. The story is about a man who thought he could never fall in love again after his wife left him, and a woman who refused to accept that the man she had been waiting for would never return. Noh In-ji and Han Jeong-won’s paths crossed in perhaps the most unromantic way, but as time passed, they started to depend on each other. In-ji worked for New Wedding, a company that provided marriage services. They believed that not every marriage was meant to last a lifetime, and not everyone could find the love of their lives, but they deserved to experience marital bliss or, in some cases, flaunt their partners to the world. In-ji lost her faith in marriage when the man she loved left her a few days before their wedding.

Netflix K-drama The Trunk is a strange limited series that seems to be taking place in some sort of dystopian parallel universe. The show, starring Gong Yoo and Seo Hyun-Jin in the leading roles, is certainly unique and tells the story of a contract marriage between our protagonists. Noh In-Ji has been working under the contract marriage company Nm for the last 5 years after experiencing a life-altering event. Her 5th contract is with a man named Jeong-Won, and he’s different from any of In-Ji’s previous clients. The thing is, Jeong-Won doesn’t really want this marriage; it’s his ex-wife who insists that he must in order for them to get back together (huh?). As you can imagine, things don’t really work out for the ex-wife Seo-Yeon, but the journey there is deep and complicated. So, with that said, let’s not waste any time and start...

Netflix has released a brand new trailer for “Squid Game” Season 2 this week, the streaming service reminding us that we are less than one month away from the show’s return.

“Squid Game” Season 2 will premiere December 26, 2024 on Netflix.

Watch the official “Squid Game” Season 2 trailer below.

From rising stars to veteran actors, the ensemble cast of “Squid Game” Season 2 boasts a diverse range of talent and experiences. Director Hwang Dong-hyuk, who won an Emmy for the first season, will return to direct, write and produce the entire second season.

In the South Korean series, “Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children’s games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits with deadly high stakes. A survival game that has a whopping 45.6 billion-won prize at stake.”

In Season 2, “Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 remains determined to find the people behind the game and put an end to their vicious sport.

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Netflix ha publicado un nuevo tráiler y póster de la esperadísima segunda temporada de El juego del calamar.

La segunda temporada ocurre tres años después de que Gi-hun ganara el Juego del Calamar. Ahora, vuelve a sumergirse en el juego de supervivencia, donde tendrá que superar situaciones de vida o muerte con nuevos participantes que sueñan con llevarse el premio de 45 600 millones de wons.

Lee Jung-jae retoma su papel como el campeón y el único superviviente de la primera temporada. También regresan Lee Byung-hun (Front Man), Wi Ha-jun (Hwang Jun-ho) y Gong Yoo (The Salesman). Los actores que se unen al reparto de la serie son Yim Siwan, 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 y Won Ji-an.

Hwang, ganador de un Emmy, es el guionista, director y productor ejecutivo de la serie.

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Fans and critics alike praised Netflix’s Squid Game, which went on to become another popular series for the streaming site. It has been a while since we learned that the series will receive a second season, the premiere date of which is coming up very, very soon.

The first season, which aired in 2021 and included nine episodes, was followed by the release of the reality spin-off Squid Game: The Challenge in 2023. Netflix is gradually getting ready for the second season’s premiere, whose premiere is set for December 26, 2024, and what is the best way to do it than with the first full official trailer for the upcoming season?

Yes, Netflix has finally released the official trailer for the second season of Squid Game and we are, of course, going to bring it to you here in this report, alongside other information about the upcoming second season, whose premiere is exactly one month away.

"I'm trying to put an end to this game." Are you ready to play? Netflix has revealed the main official trailer for Squid Game 2, the second season of the hit Korean thriller series Squid Game from 2021. It's a direct continuation following 456 who returns to the game - with a sneaky plan in mind. Three years after winning, Player 456 gives up going to America and comes back with a new resolution to put at end to this vicious game. Gi-hun once again dives into the mysterious survival game, starting another life-or-death game with new participants gathered to win the prize of ₩45.6 billion. Director Hwang Dong-hyuk returns to write & direct. Actors Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-jun, & Gong Yoo reprise their roles from Season 1 - joined by new cast members: 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,...

“Squid Game” returns for its second season on Dec. 26, and with one month to go the series released a new trailer highlighting Seong Gi-hun (Emmy winner Lee Jung-jae) as he makes an unusual request. He wants to return to the game that nearly killed him and claimed the lives of more than 400 other players. But this time will be different. He wants to take down the game from the inside. Watch the trailer above.

In addition to Lee, Lee Byung-hun is back in the new season as the overseer of the game, Gong Yoo returns as the mysterious recruiter, and Wi Ha-jun reprises his role as police officer Hwang Jun-ho. New cast members include 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.

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Lee Jung-jae returns to Squid Game for a second round in the just released trailer for Squid Game season two!

The hit Netflix series just dropped the new look at the upcoming new episodes, which teases the change Seong Gi-hun is trying to make.

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Here’s a synopsis: Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 gave up going to the states and comes back with a new resolution in his mind. Gi-hun once again dives into the mysterious survival game, starting another life-or-death game with new participants gathered to win the prize of 45.6 billion won.

In addition to Lee Jung-jae, other returning cast members include Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-jun, and Gong Yoo. New to the cast are 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.

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Welcome back to the arena. Squid Game is coming back to Netflix for its second season very, very soon, and details about what to expect from the new season are starting to come through. Netflix has now revealed the cast and trailer, and it looks like fans are in for a few new games this time around. In the trailer, embedded above, we see Gi-Hun getting back into the mix, which includes a merry-go-round platform and possibly tic tac toe or red rover games. Read on to find everything else there is to know about Squid Game Season 2 so far. When does Squid Game Season 2 premiere? Squid Game Season 2 will premiere on December 26, 2024. Who stars in Squid Game Season 2? Lee Jung-Jae returns to lead the new season as Seong Gi-Hun a.k.a. Player 456, with Lee Byeong-Heon as Hwang In-ho, Wi Ha-Joon as Hwang Jun-ho, and Gong Yoo as the recruiter.

Squid Game, Netflix’s breakout Korean drama series, has got another trailer.

The series, which returns for its second season December 26, has dropped what Netflix is calling its “main” trailer, highlighting a slew of new challenges that the participants in the dystopian parlor game will take on.

It is the fifth video released by Netflix before the premiere.

The second season of the show, which comes from writer, director and exec producer Hwang Dong-hyuk, follows Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) as he returns to the game to try and destroy it from the inside.

The new trailer shows what’s going on inside the island this time around with new characters trying to win the money with new games. One looks like a menacing version of tic-tac-toe, while another appears to be set on a horse carousel.

“We are not trying to harm you. We are presenting you with an opportunity,...

Player 456 plans to end the Squid Game once and for all — from the inside.

The second season of the global smash-hit Netflix series picks up three years after the first, which is the same length of time between seasons, as Player 456 scratches his plans to settle in the United States. Retirement doesn’t seem to suit Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) — at least, not as well as the green tracksuit. Our hero also ditches the red dye in his hair, a small but helpful cosmetic change as the new baddie of the bunk beds has purple hair. How do we know the purple-haired contestant is a bad guy? Just see what dude does during Red Light, Green Light.

“Gi-hun once again dives into the mysterious survival game, starting another life-or-death game with new participants gathered to win the prize of 45.6 billion won,” the “Squid Game 2” synopsis reads.

Here, “won” refers to the...

Let the new Squid Game begin … or end?

That’s the question after Seong Gi-hun, a.k.a Player 456, after winning the first season of Squid Game on Netflix, returns to try and end the mysterious survival game where Koreans gamble with their lives once and for all.

Asked at one point in the official trailer that dropped on Tuesday why he’s back in the arena, Player 456, played by Lee Jung-jae, declares: “I’m trying to put an end to this game.” Whether other players opt out and end the survival game that has contenders fighting to the death for a big cash prize promises to be a major theme during the upcoming second season, which bows Dec. 26.

The official synopsis for the second season from Netflix reads: “Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 gave up going to the States and comes back with a new resolution in his mind.

After the fantastic first season of Squid Game, anticipation is sky-high for season 2. It won’t be easy, but creator Hwang Dong-hyuk seems confident that the new season will live up to the hype with a darker story.

“I believe what we’ve created on Season 2 is a deeper, more advanced story,” Hwang told Empire. “I feel it could even surpass Season 1. But physically, mentally, it was not easy. Some of the sequences we shot were the most challenging in my whole career. It was… hell.” He went on to tease that the second season won’t be a walk in the part. “I even had some concerns because the story told in the second season is much crueller, scarier and more gruesome than the first,” he said. “Honestly, I thought to myself… ‘Is this too much for people to handle?’” Will Squid Game season 2 be the Empire Strikes Back of the series?...

A music producer with everything money can buy drowns his sorrows in sleeping pills after his wife leaves him for another man. But there’s a catch. She fully intends to get back with him — after they each spend a year being married to someone else. The K-drama The Trunk follows Jeong-won, who reluctantly agrees to marry In-ji, a wife-for-hire. While Jeong-won fights against his jealousy towards his ex’s new husband, he slowly forges a bond with In-ji, who struggles with shadowy figures from her past. Based on the book of the same name by Kim Ryeo-ryeong, the series was directed by Kim Kyu-tae (Our Blues) and stars Gong Yoo and Seo Hyun-jin.

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Jeong-won (Gong) is still heartbroken and bitter about his ex-wife, Seo-yeon (Jung), who’s left him for another man. So when he meets In-ji...

Squid Game became Netflix’s most-watched series ever when it launched in September 2021 with more than 111M accounts tuning in to watch 1.65B hours in its first four weeks.

This has set expectations high for the second season, which premieres on December 26, 2024.

Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria was asked, during an international originals press conference, what would constitute a hit for the second season.

“You know what is hard, is to be the most popular show in the world,” she admitted.

She added that Squid Game was “probably” the most popular show in the world, rather than just on Netflix. “What I’m excited about is that season two creatively, if you loved season one, you’ll definitely love season two, and it creatively delivers what I think what people would want it to be,” she said.

Bajaria said that the show started as a local Korean title...

Most people knew nothing about Squid Game until the Netflix series exploded in popularity, but that certainly isn’t the case for season 2. All eyes are on the new season, which will find Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) returning to the arena as he attempts to take down the games from the inside. While speaking with GamesRadar+, Lee Jung-jae said he experienced a “sense of horror” returning to the world of Squid Game.

“Well, I actually didn’t know that I would reprise my role as Gi-hun,” Jung-jae said. “So when I knew that I was going to play Gi-hun again, I had mixed feelings, and I still remember the day when I first set foot on the game arena for the production of season two, and when I opened the door to the set, I felt this horror, this sense of horror.“

The actor continued, “All the memories of season one,...

Netflix recently announced that Squid Game season 2 is set to premiere on the streaming service on December 26th – and during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk said that this new batch of episodes is all about the idea of taking sides.

Hwang is the director, writer, and producer of the show. Squid Game season 2 has the following synopsis: Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 remains determined to find the people behind the game and put an end to their vicious sport. Using this fortune to fund his search, Gi-hun starts with the most obvious of places: look for the man in a sharp suit playing ddakji in the subway. But when his efforts finally yield results, the path toward taking down the organization proves to be deadlier than he imagined: to end the game, he needs to re-enter it.

Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-jun,...

Ya no hay quien pare el juego. © Netflix

¡Luz verde! Netflix ha publicado el primer tráiler y pósteres de la esperadísima segunda temporada de El juego del calamar.

La segunda temporada tiene lugar tres años después de que Gi-hun ganara el Juego del Calamar. Ahora, vuelve a sumergirse en el juego de supervivencia, donde tendrá que superar situaciones de vida o muerte con nuevos participantes que sueñan con llevarse el premio de 45 600 millones de wons.

Lee Jung-jae retoma su papel como el campeón y el único superviviente de la primera temporada. También regresan Lee Byung-hun (Front Man), Wi Ha-jun (Hwang Jun-ho) y Gong Yoo (The Salesman). Los actores que se unen al reparto de la serie son Yim Siwan, 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 y Won Ji-an.

Hwang, ganador de un Emmy, es el guionista,...

Netflix is ready to horrify you with another season of its survival thriller series, Squid Game. Emmy-winning actor Lee Jung-jae is returning as Seong Gi-hun in the second season. The climax of the first season showed Player 456 deciding to go back to the bloody games, determined to go after whoever runs the games.

Lee Jung-jae in a still from Squid Game Season 2 | Credits: Netflix

However, from the glimpses shown to us through sneak peeks and teaser trailers, it doesn’t appear that things are under Gi-hun’s control. Following his apparent death in the first season, Detective Hwang Jun-ho also returns in the second season, though it remains a mystery why he hasn’t put an end to the games yet.

Squid Game Season 2 Release Date: When Does It Premiere? Lee Jung-jae as Player 456 in Squid Game Season 2 | Credits: Netflix

Squid Game first premiered on Netflix in September 2021. The second...

This December, the game begins again as Squid Game returns with its second season on Netflix.

Now, we have the first trailer for the show (via SFFGazette.com) after the footage debuted at Lucca Comics & Games, Europe's biggest Comic Con. This next batch of episodes raises the stakes, with Lee Jung-jae reprising his role as Seong Gi-hun, also known as Player 456.

With a hardened demeanour and the scars of past games, Gi-hun is on a desperate mission to expose the deadly truth of the competition. Yet, his warnings go unheeded, and tensions rise as fellow players question his intentions.

The teaser also shows the return of Lee Byung-hun as the mysterious Front Man, whose true motivations remain cloaked in secrecy, while Wi Ha-jun’s Hwang Jun-ho is back, driving the narrative forward as the relentless detective on a mission of his own.

Created by Hwang Dong-hyuk, Squid Game quickly became...

"You may choose to stay and continue playing to increase your potential winnings or choose to stop the games now & leave." It's time! Who's back for Round 2 of this crazy survival game? Netflix has revealed the first teaser trailer for Squid Game 2, the second season of the hit Korean thriller series Squid Game from 2021. It's a direct continuation following 456 again. Three years after winning, Player 456 gives up going to America and comes back with a new resolution in his mind. Gi-hun once again dives into the mysterious survival game, starting another life-or-death game with new participants gathered to win the prize of ₩45.6 billion. Director Hwang Dong-hyuk returns to write & direct. Actors Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-jun, & Gong Yoo reprise their roles from Season 1 - joined by an impeccable list of new cast members including Yim Si-wan, Kang Ha-neul, Park Gyu-young, Lee Jin-uk, Park Sung-hoon, Yang Dong-geun, Kang Ae-sim, Lee David,...

Let the games begin… again! Netflix is giving everyone a Halloween treat by unveiling a Squid Game Season 2 teaser trailer that pulls us back into a deadly game filled with greed, deception, and scathing social commentary. The new video was unveiled to thousands of fans at Lucca Comics & Games, Europe’s biggest Comic Con, and offers a glimpse at a very different Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae). His always-optimistic disposition has been replaced with a hardened demeanor following the horrors of the previous games. Despite the lasting emotional scars, Gi-hun is on a desperate mission to expose the deadly truth of the competition. But will his fellow players heed his warnings — or blaze their own dangerous path?

Today’s Squid Games Season 2 teaser confirms that one benevolent force controls the competition, the mysterious Front Man, played by Lee Byung-hun. His actual motivations remain a mystery. Still, he isn’t afraid to kill...

The hotly anticipated “Squid Game” Season 2 will premiere December 26, 2024 on Netflix, and the streaming service debuted an official teaser out of Lucca Comics & Games, Europe’s biggest Comic Con, today.

Watch the official “Squid Game” Season 2 teaser below, which shows the return of Lee Byung-hun as the mysterious Front Man, whose true motivations remain cloaked in secrecy, while Wi Ha-jun’s Hwang Jun-ho is back, driving the narrative forward as the relentless detective on a mission of his own.

In the South Korean series, “Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children’s games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits with deadly high stakes. A survival game that has a whopping 45.6 billion-won prize at stake.”

From rising stars to veteran actors, the ensemble cast of “Squid Game” Season 2 boasts a diverse range of talent and experiences.

In Season 2, “Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 remains determined...

The Squid Game season 2 release date is finally here! The highly anticipated followup season of Netflix's most popular original series will make its premiere on Dec. 26, 2024. It's quite the Christmas present to give fans who have been waiting for the new episodes since 2021.

Ahead of the Christmas holiday drop, Netflix gave fans a Halloween treat (no tricks!) by releasing the official teaser trailer for season 2 on Halloween. In the tense clip, Seong Gi-hun a.k.a. Player 456 is seen stressfully leading new players through the games to little avail. He's hoping to expose these deadly games, but as the trailer reveals, that might not so easy.

Watch the trailer in the video below!

Along with the new teaser trailer, Netflix also shared additional information about the second season in a new synopsis. The streamer teases that the stakes have been raised as Seong Gi-hun seeks the truth and the...

The first extended look at season two of Squid Game shows that the game won’t get any easier for any of the green-tracksuited contestants.

Netflix has released a teaser for its global hit’s second season that finds Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) playing once again. This time, however, he’s surrounded by a host of new players who don’t know as well as he does what they’re in for — and in some cases don’t seem to care, as they’re drawn by the potential to win a life-changing sum of money that’s dangled in front of them.

When Seong tries to explain he’s played the games before, another player wonders “Why the hell would you come crawling back?” before leading a chant of “One more game!” among his fellow players. Watch the teaser below.

The nearly two-minute teaser expands on an earlier clip that...

The end of the holiday season in America will be marked by one thing and one thing only: the arrival of "Squid Game" season 2. The smash hit South Korean series from Netflix and creator Hwang Dong-hyuk became the streaming juggernaut's most popular series of all time, inspiring a reality TV competition show (that completely misses the point of the original series) and an upcoming sister series set in America from David Fincher (that will probably be awesome). Although it took over a decade for Dong-hyuk to get "Squid Game" into eyeballs across the globe, Netflix is making sure the show will end without another big break between seasons; season 2 hits just after Christmas, and the third and final season will drop sometime in 2025. Considering the show's premise revolves around hundreds of people dying in an attempt to secure financial stability, season 2 unfortunately won't see a lot of returning faces (Rip...

As we await the second season of Netflix’s dystopian, Korean smash hit “Squid Game,” a report suggests the streamer may finally be looking to expand the story’s universe with a spinoff series from one of its biggest creators: David Fincher.

Fincher is reportedly eyeing an English-language “Squid Game” spinoff as his next project under his deal with the streamer, according to a report in Deadline. If something were to go into development, it would be the first scripted expansion of the show since it debuted in 2021.

No other details are out there, such as whether it’s a spinoff connected to the main show or a remake in English, but it could be Fincher’s next focus in 2025.

Netflix declined to comment.

“Squid Game” remains Netflix’s all-time most-watched series by a humongous margin. They’re hoping for a repeat of that success this Christmas, when Season 2 debuts...

There have been rumblings for several years that David Fincher is working on something in the Squid Game universe. Although nothing is official, sources have told Deadline that Fincher is developing a new English-language Squid Game series for Netflix, which will likely be his next project.

It was originally thought that Fincher would be helming a Squid Game movie, but it seems clear now that this would be a full series. Again, nothing is official, but the idea of Fincher tackling Squid Game is very interesting. Although I will admit, I would prefer to see him do another original project. There’s also the question of whether Netflix even needs to do an English-language remake. The first season of the series still stands as Netflix’s most popular show of all time, with over 2.2 billion hours viewed. If Fincher’s remake does move forward, I could see it taking the...

If it feels like a lifetime since "Squid Game" season 1 came out, that's probably because we've all collectively forgotten how to process the passage of time since 2020. In the three years since Hwang Dong-hyuk's harrowing Netflix survival thriller series took the planet by storm, the real world has only continued to validate Hwang's larger critiques of capitalism. In a darkly ironic turn befitting of the show itself, Netflix might be the biggest culprit in that respect, launching the highly-controversial reality competition series "Squid Game: The Challenge" and proving there is, in fact, nothing the twisted capitalist machine can't exploit as a way of making money.

Suffice it to say, with season 2 arriving just in time to round out the winter holidays and usher in the new year, Hwang should have plenty of fresh material to mine for inspiration. The second season of "Squid Game" (check out the trailer) will...

In a major coup for the Italian geek meet, “Squid Game” creator, writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk and the show’s protagonists Lee Jung-jae and Wi Ha-Jun will be attending Lucca Comics and Games festival on Oct. 31 to tease the hit Netflix series’ second season.

“We are really proud that we’ve created an event that is one of the most powerful promotional platforms in the world” says Giovanni Cova, head of Milan-based entertainment marketing company Qmi who works in tandem on the fest’s film and TV strand with Lucca chief Emanuele Vietina.

The hotly anticipated second instalment of the Korean-language survival drama series – which is set to launch on Netflix on Dec. 26. – will feature Gi-hun making a critical decision, according to promotional materials. Played by Lee Jung-jae, who won an Emmy for lead actor in a drama series, Gi-hun abandons his plans to go to the U.S.

“Squid Game” doesn’t return for its long-awaited second season until December 26, but on September 30 the series released a new teaser highlighting Gong Yoo‘s character who recruits unsuspecting players to the deadly game. We watch him get ready in the morning. Then he gets off the train, checks his watch, and holds up those red and blue cards, asking directly to the camera, “Sir. Would you like to play a game with me?” Watch the sinister teaser above.

Gong Yoo is indeed back for the new season of the series. Lee Jung-jae is also returning to his lead role as Seong Gi-hun. Lee Byung-hun is back as the overseer of the game, and Wi Ha-jun reprises his role as police officer Hwang Jun-ho. New cast members include 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,...

Squid Game, the biggest show to ever air on Netflix, is returning for a second season. Netflix has dropped a new teaser trailer, above, which features Gong Yoo's mysterious salesman getting ready for a day of work tempting indebted, down-on-their-luck workaday stiffs into playing a game in the hopes of making some money. The hope is that eventually they'll participate in the Squid Games, an elaborate tournament where poor people put their lives on the line for the entertainment of a group of voyeuristic billionaires, with one of them walking away with a grand prize at the end. The others will all die.

Squid Game blew all the way up when the first season dropped in 2021; not only is a well-acted, well-written thriller, but it strikes a chord in a world where the divide between the uber-rich and the rest of humanity keeps widening. The teaser trailer doesn't give...

Netflix has given fans a first look at the upcoming second season of the hit South Korean drama Squid Game. A brief but impactful teaser was released revealing the return of key character Gong Yoo.

The teaser, directed by creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, shows Gong Yoo’s mysterious recruiter character preparing for his day. Viewers see him collect items like Ddakji pieces and cash, tools he uses to lure people into the deadly competition.

The scene then cuts to a subway, the setting of season one’s initial recruitment. Gong Yoo approaches a potential new player, echoing his iconic line “Sir, would you like to play a game with me?”

Key cast members will reprise their roles, including Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun. His character finds himself drawn back into the arena despite surviving the first season’s ordeal.

New cast members like Im Si-wan and Kang Ha-neul join the drama.

Oh my goodness! The Squid Game season 2 teaser is only one minute long, but it has me so hyped to get back into this nail-biting world and begin the game once again. And Player 456, aka Seong Gi-hun, is back in the game as well. What are his motives? We'll get into some theories, but first check out the video released by Netflix.

As revealed above, Gi-hun suits up once again to get back into the game. Now where we left off at the end of season 1, he had vowed to get revenge on those controlling the game. So I'm assuming he wants to find a way to shut it down. Though according to the synopsis, it's been three years since his bittersweet victory. So are those still his motives?

Plus, we see the Front Man himself show up at Gi-hun's door. Why does he want Player 456 back in the game?...

Squid Game shattered all expectations when it premiered on Netflix back in 2021, quickly becoming the most-watched season of television in the streamer's history. The Korean-language drama told the story of Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), a desperate man who entered into a competition where he and other contestants competed in children's games for a life-changing amount of money—the snag being that if they lost, they died.

The show was a phenomenon, resonating with viewers around the globe. Even though the first season wrapped up neatly, it was always a foregone conclusion we were going to get more. Netflix has even launched a gameshow, Squid Game: The Challenge, based on the series. Whether that's missing the point of the show or not, I leave to you to decide.

Now, at long last, we have a new teaser for Squid Game season 2. Seong Gi-hun is back in the game:

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The hotly anticipated “Squid Game” Season 2 will premiere December 26, 2024 on Netflix, and the streaming service debuted a “special teaser” out of Geeked Week this week.

Watch the official “Squid Game” Season 2 teaser below.

From rising stars to veteran actors, the ensemble cast of “Squid Game” Season 2 boasts a diverse range of talent and experiences. Director Hwang Dong-hyuk, who won an Emmy for the first season, will return to direct, write and produce the entire second season.

In the South Korean series, “Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children’s games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits with deadly high stakes. A survival game that has a whopping 45.6 billion-won prize at stake.”

In Season 2, “Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 remains determined to find the people behind the game and put an end to their vicious sport. Using this fortune to fund his search, Gi-hun starts...

Netflix recently announced a return date - and end date - for mega-popular dystopian drama series, Squid Game, and the streamer finally debuted a proper teaser trailer (though it's still only a minute long) for the second season during Geeked Week.

The promo begins with a clearly on-edge (and who wouldn't be?) Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) pulling a gun on a masked figure at his door, as we cut to the winner of the first game joining a new group of participants for another life-or-death contest. This time, though, Gi-hun has a very different objective: Revenge.

When we last saw Seong Gi-hun, he had emerged as the only survivor of the lethal games, which saw 456 contestants in various degrees of severe financial trouble put their lives on the line for the chance of winning a ₩45.6 billion (roughly €30m) prize.

In the final episode, Gi-hun decides not to travel to America to reunite with his family,...

Let the (squid) games begin! After getting our first peek at the second season of Netflix's wildly popular K-Drama Squid Game just last month, the streaming giant have used this week's Netflix Geeked Week event to tease fans further as to what's in store when Hwang Dong-hyuk's lacerating play-or-die satire returns to our screens. Overnight, a 'Special Teaser' for the upcoming Season 2 dropped online, with protagonist Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) back in his 456 tracksuit, pink soldiers left, right, and centre, and a certain Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) preparing to launch his latest set of deadly games. Check it out below:

Now sure, this is only another forty-odd second morsel of Squid Game-y goodness, but already that now-instantly-recognisable iconography and the prospect of Player 456 re-entering the game has the show's tentacles wrapped around us all over again. And in lieu of more plotty details being shared in this new teaser,...

Netflix Korea has just released a special teaser for the much-anticipated Squid Game Season 2, giving fans a sneak peek into the upcoming high-stakes drama. The teaser, posted on the streaming platform’s YouTube channel, opens with Seong Gi-hun played by Lee Jung-jae jolting awake as his doorbell rings. He cautiously opens the door, holding a gun, only to find a masked figure standing ominously before him.

The teaser also showcases glimpses of the sinister game venue as new participants prepare to face another round of deadly challenges. A masked voice eerily declares, “We are ready to start the game,” signaling the beginning of a fresh cycle of life-or-death contests. Gi-hun, wearing his signature jacket with the tag “456,” is seen returning as one of the contestants, marking his dramatic return to the game.

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Squid Game season two will debut on Netflix at the end of the year and the streamer just released the first teaser trailer for the new episodes.

Lee Jung-jae is back as Seong Gi-hun and it looks like he’s playing another round of Squid Game in season two, with the teaser featuring him back in the 456 uniform while sitting in the bunks.

Also reprising their roles in the second season are Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-jun and Gong Yoo (as the salesman who recruits players).

Season one’s writer, director, and producer Hwang Dong-hyuk has returned for the second season, which debuts on Netflix on December 26.

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Watch the teaser below!

To be frank, the extremely brief (and very vague) teaser trailer for "Squid Game" season 2 wasn't enough to get us jazzed about the long-awaited return of Netflix's most popular show of all time — especially since it's been three dang years since the show originally premiered. Everyone who watched it back then has moved on with their lives, so while Netflix can obviously promote the heck out of this by using its algorithm to plop it back on every subscriber's home screen the day the new season drops, you have to wonder if anyone at the streamer is nervous about a majority of viewers straight up forgetting the finer points of the show after all this time.

Thankfully, a new trailer has finally arrived, providing a more in-depth look at the return to the candy-colored, late-stage capitalist hellscape we all visited in 2021. Here's the official synopsis for season 2:

"Three...

It’s been three years since the world was introduced to Hwang Dong-hyuck’s timely and harrowing dystopian thriller “Squid Game,” but we are now finally getting a peek at what’s ahead for Season 1 winner Seong Gi-hun aka Player 456 (Lee Jung-jae). After winning the final game by default, with banker Sang-woo killing himself when Gi-hun refused, the guilt over his friend’s deaths and anger over a new leader keeping the games running has drawn 456 back into battle and this time, he wants more than just to survive.

Jung-jae is joined for Season 2 by fellow Season 1 castmates Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-jun, and Gong Yoo, as well as newcomers 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.

The official synopsis for Season 2 reads, “Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 gave up going...

Netflix recently announced that Squid Game season 2 is set to premiere on the streaming service on December 26th – and soon after, they unveiled a teaser trailer that lived up to the “tease” part of its name, as it didn’t have a whole lot to show. Now a “special teaser” has arrived online, complete with actual footage from the show, and you can check it out in the embed above.

Series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk is the director, writer, and producer of the show. Squid Game season 2 has the following synopsis: Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 remains determined to find the people behind the game and put an end to their vicious sport. Using this fortune to fund his search, Gi-hun starts with the most obvious of places: look for the man in a sharp suit playing ddakji in the subway. But when his efforts finally yield results, the...

“Squid Game” is back and Netflix has released the first teaser for its hotly anticipated second season. The footage comes as the final reveal of the streamer’s annual Geeked Week fan event.

The teaser picks things off right after Season 1’s finale, when Seong Gi-hun abandoned his plans to go to the U.S. and instead started a daring chase with a newfound motive. In the short teaser, he appears back in his 456 uniform amid a crowd of new contestants. Another massive cash prize awaits them, with a quick look at the games to come.

The globally successful Korean series follows financially struggling individuals competing in deadly games for a chance to win a life-changing prize, revealing the dark depths of human desperation and resilience.

The second season sees Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-jun and Gong Yoo reprise their roles as survivors of the bloody elimination game.

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Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun is re-entering the game in “Squid Game” Season 2.

In a teaser for the new season, which debuts Dec. 26 on Netflix, Gi-hun is abruptly woken up in the middle of the night by a ring at the door. Answering with a gun up, he comes face-to-face with the masked leader behind Squid Game, known as the Front Man.

Before he knows it, Gi-hun is back in the arena as Player 456 and operations have remained status quo as he and 455 other players go head-to-head in a series of games with the promise of the winner taking home $456 million.

The official logline for Season 2 is as follows: “Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 remains determined to find the people behind the game and put an end to their vicious sport. Using this fortune to fund his search, Gi-hun starts with the most obvious of places: look for the...

The first teaser trailer for season two of Squid Game shows the game never stops, even when you think it’s over.

Netflix unveiled the new footage at an in-person fan event Thursday in Atlanta, capping off its Geeked Week flood of announcements centered on genre programming. It was previously announced that the streamer’s biggest series ever returns Dec. 26, more than three years after the first installment became a global sensation in 2021.

In the teaser, a new game is set to begin, however, an on-edge Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) finds himself back in the game as Player 456 once again, wearing the green tracksuit.

“We’re ready to start the game,” a voice says in Korean. Watch the teaser below.

In addition to Lee, returning castmembers for season two of the Emmy-winning series include Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-joon and Gong Yoo. They’re joined by Yim Si-wan, Kang Ha-neul, Park Gyu-young,...

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Netflix’s Japanese survival thriller series Alice in Borderland is one of the best thriller shows on the streamer right now. Alice in Borderland is similar to The Hunger Games, but it is more brutal and gory. Directed by Shinsuke Sato, the Netflix series is based on a Japanese manga series of the same name by Haro Aso, and it is set in a dystopian Tokyo and it follows a group of friends who get caught up in a nightmarish game where you have to complete some tasks given by the controllers of the game and if they are not completed the players are executed on-site. So, if you loved the thrilling story, deadly stakes, and compelling characters in Alice in Borderland here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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