“If season one was concerning the story of Seong Gi-hun [played by The Acolyte’s Lee Jung-jae], or Participant Quantity 456, coming into Squid Recreation for the primary time, and about how he survives and leaves the sport as a winner,” teased Hwang, “[then] season two goes to be that Gi-hun, primarily based along with his recollections of the primary sport and the experiences, goes by means of a brand new realization and an awakening and returning as soon as once more as a way to cease this unjust sport.”
As earlier than, Gi-hun is not going to be alone within the sport. With a lot of the first season’s ensemble killed off, viewers might be launched to a bevy of latest characters performed by a solid recognizable to followers of Korean popular culture. Okay-pop idols Jo Yu-ri (Iz*One) and T.O.P (BIGBANG) will seem alongside actors like Park Gyu-young and Lee Jin-uk, who each appeared in Candy House, the primary Okay-drama to make it into the U.S. Netflix High Ten. “With every episode, you’ll be capable to meet characters with totally different backstories,” mentioned Lee of season two, “and you can find your self rooting for these characters and wanting to essentially perceive them and relate to them.”
Wi Ha-jun’s (The Midnight Romance in Hagwon) detective, Hwang Jun-ho, will even return in season two. When final we noticed him, Jun-ho had been shot by his long-lost brother, In-ho (the G.I. Joe franchise’s Lee Byung-hun), after Jun-ho went undercover as a sport guard to seek out him. As a part of the climactic betrayal, In-ho was revealed to be the Entrance Man, a former winner who now leads the sport’s employees. Wi teased of Jun-ho’s season two arc: “He fairly actually turns away from the gates of demise as a way to discover his brother and to chase these merciless ones behind the sport.” Lee’s Entrance Man might be again and was seen persevering with to stoically oversee the video games in an official trailer.
With a 3rd and ultimate season deliberate for launch in 2025, Hwang hopes Squid Recreation will proceed to lift questions like, “What sort of society are we dwelling in?” and, “What sort of world is the longer term world going to be like, and is there any method we will put a cease to it?”
Thematically, there’s a deeper warning on the coronary heart of Squid Recreation’s diverting story: “If we neglect the weak [classes] which were created by means of this present system,” says Hwang, “those that have benefited from the labor… of the weak will now not be capable to reside [in this] established order.”
