Going into 2021, I don’t think anyone expected a Korean language show about indebted people playing deadly children’s games to be the TV sensation of the year, but that’s what happened: Squid Game came out on Netflix in September and dominated the discourse for months. And if you’ve seen it, you know why; it is an intense, well-crafted jolt of satiric imagination.
And the first season ends by setting up more. After winning the Squid Games, main character Gi-Hun (Lee-Jung Jae) decides to go after the people behind them, although we don’t know what that will look like. Obviously Netflix ordered a second season immediately, and according to creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, they’ve talked about a third as well. “I’m in talks with Netflix over Season 2 as well as Season 3,” he said during an interview with The Korean Broadcasting System. “We will come to a conclusion anytime soon.”
Hwang isn’t giving away any details, but previously he did hint at what season 2 might entail. “n the first season that we saw Gi-hun is a character whose humanity is shown through or exposed in certain situations,” he said earlier this month. “In other words, his humanity is shown through a very passive manner. But I would think that in the second season, what he has learned from the games and his experience in the first season, they will all be put to use in a more active manner.”
Netflix wants Squid Game season 3
Hwang would also like to explore the relationship between the police officer who infiltrated the Squid Games and his brother, who was working behind the scenes. “If I end up creating Season 2, I’d like to explore that storyline — what is going on between those two brothers?” he told The Hollywood Reporter in October. “And then I could also go into the story of that recruiter in the suit who plays the game of ddakji with Gi-hun and gives him the card in the first episode. And, of course, we could go with Gi-hun’s story as he turns back, and explore more about how he’s going to navigate through his reckoning with the people who are designing the games.”
Obviously there’s an appetite for more Squid Game, although I hope Netflix doesn’t overextend things too much and water it down. But if the second season if half as compelling as the first, it’ll still be worth watching.
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