Netflix production Squid Game, which was released in September last year and managed to resonate for months, has undoubtedly managed to become the most talked about work of the platform in recent years. At the same time, the most profitable production of Netflix and acclaimed all over the world, the series continued to influence with whispers of the second and even the third season after its first season.
While these whispers continued, it was expected in the past weeks and the second season of the series was officially announced. Thinking about the story of the series ‘Games over, everyone died, now what?’ you may ask. Fortunately, some explanations on this subject give us little clues. In this content, we’ll take a look at both the tips for the new season and details such as the cast and release date.
If you haven’t watched the first season of Squid Game, you may encounter spoilers at every step from here
All the details about the 2nd season of Squid Game
When will season 2 of Squid Game be released?
The future of Squid Game season 2 was almost clear a few weeks after the first season aired. The scriptwriter, director and producer of the series, Hwang Dong-hyuk, signaled this in many interviews after the drama broke ratings and took over social media.
However, neither Dong-hyuk nor Netflix have so far revealed a clear release date for the series. The first season of the series was announced in 2019 and met the audience two years later. In the new season, a large part of the cast will change -everyone has died because you know-, and it is not difficult to guess that the series has a challenging production phase. Considering all these conditions, the general expectation is that we can watch the 2nd season of Squid Game in the last quarter of 2023.
Director Dong-hyuk said in an interview that he thought “we can watch it towards the end of 2024”, but considering Netflix’s recent troubles, it seems like a logical option to choose not to delay the series too much and bring it to the audience earlier.
Who will we see in Squid Game season 2?
In the first season of Squid Game, it’s almost like ‘whoever we loved is gone’… Since there aren’t many people who survived the first season, we seem less likely to see familiar faces in the second season. But we know that the main character of the drama, Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), will definitely come back. Director Dong-hyuk has very clear explanations on this subject.
In addition, ‘Front Man’ Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun), one of the mysterious characters whose story we witnessed in the first season, the leader of the masked, the scary watcher of the games, and the police officer Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon), whom we learned to be his brother, are also in the 2nd season. Looks like it will be back in the season. Another familiar face that we learned to see in the new season is the ‘man in a suit’ (Gong Yoo), who walks around with red and blue cards in his hand and plays ‘ddakji’ to future contestants. Let’s make a small list of all the names we have for now;
Squid Game season 2 cast
- Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun
- Lee Byung-hun as Hwang In-ho
- Wi Ha-joon as Hwang Jun-ho
- Gong Yoo as ‘The Salesman’ playing ddakji in a suit
What will the story of Squid Game season 2 be like?
We can say that it is a little unclear what kind of story awaits us in the 2nd season of Squid Game. Because there are so many options and so many explanations. Director Dong-hyuk has promised a lot about the scenarios that we can see in the new season in many interviews he has given so far.
Although we do not know for sure which will be the chosen path and what kind of story we will follow, we can make some inferences by looking at all the information we have.
Gi-hun will have to make a big choice
Gi-hun, who managed to survive in the first season and gave us the signals that he ‘set on a new journey’ at the end of the season, will continue to be at the heart of the story in the second season. According to director Dong-hyuk, Gi-hun will have to make an important choice in the new season and we will see him either on the ‘bad side’ that plays the game or on the ‘good side’ in his journey to bring the games to an end.
We know that Hwang In-ho, who we are watching as ‘Front Man’ now and who is the leader of the masked people, was also the winner of one of the past games and joined the masked people later. For this reason, this cycle will appear in the story; Disrupted or perpetuated by Gi-hun…
We’re going to dig deeper into some of the stories, get to know some of the characters better…
Another information we have about the second season of Squid Game is that although we learned a little about their stories in the first season, we are likely to see some characters that we did not have the opportunity to watch much.
According to director Dong-hyuk, the details of the story of Hwang Jun-ho and his older brother, the policeman who confronted his brother, the leader of the masked, could be featured in the second season. The last episodes of the first season and the story of these two brothers, which continue in parallel, actually created this expectation, but it is very difficult to make an inference about what kind of fiction we will encounter.
According to the statements from Dong-hyuk, another option is the story of the gentleman in a suit who lures Gi-hun to the game by playing ddakji. He was an intriguing character even though we rarely saw him, and moreover, he was one of the first faces we met at a point that could be considered the beginning of everything. But of course, what kind of story this story will be, we have nothing to speculate yet.
Better games, more deaths?
Another ambitious statement about the second season of Squid Game is that there will be much better games in the new season. Again, according to a statement from director Dong-hyuk, we will see more and better games in the new season. We had already learned that the games were continuing at the end of the first season. It is not yet known what kind of brutal games we will watch this time to surprise and delight the masked people.
There’s worse and worse: We’ll meet the ‘boyfriend’ of baby Young-hee, who is creepy and deadly in her eyes
We don’t know if Squid Game’s iconic and terrifying giant baby Young-hee will be with us in the new season. But director Dong-hyuk said we will meet the ‘boyfriend’ of this scary doll. Where and how this new potential killer baby named Cheol-su will appear is also unknown at the moment.
The Squid Game universe is ‘just getting started’
Let’s not go without saying that there are some rumors that the Squid Game series will not consist of only a series and new seasons. Although there is no clear information about this, the CEO of Netflix said in a statement that ‘the Squid Game universe has just begun’. Afterwards, we learned that there will be a Netflix production and a ‘real Squid Game’ that everyone can apply.
This shows that Netflix will not let go of this record-breaking production easily. Maybe we’ll see new content coming from side stories, movies, and new game shows. But unfortunately, we don’t have any information about these yet, other than the CEO’s statement and the steps we have taken.
For the second season of Squid Game, for now, there are not many details other than this information. But the director of the series, Dong-hyuk, seems to have loved to give interviews and talk about the future of the series. This means that he can give us plenty of ‘messages’ in the coming months. But of course we will wait a little longer…
