Open Post: Hosted By The Teaser Trailer For Season 2 Of “Squid Game”
Time to dust off your green tracksuits for more themed parties and re-up your Xanax scrip! In news that shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, Squid Game, Netflix’s most successful debut series to date, has the “GREEN LIGHT!” for a season 2, and the streaming service just delivered a tiny teaser trailer along with a message from the show’s creator.
First, there’s a microscopic trailer where all we see is the terrifying, gun-eyed robot-doll Young-hee’s eye, and then show director, writer, and executive Hwang Dong-hyuk tweeted some more details. via Variety:
“It took 12 years to bring the first season of ‘Squid Game’ to life last year. But it took 12 days for ‘Squid Game’ to become the most popular Netflix series ever,” reads the statement from director Hwang. “As the writer, director and producer of ‘Squid Game,’ a huge shout out to fans around the world. Thank you for watching and loving our show.”
Hwang’s statement continues by teasing a bit of the story for the follow-up season, revealing that protagonist Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and the masked antagonist the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) will both return.
“The man in the suit with ddakji might be back,” Hwang writes, before also stating that the boyfriend of Young-hee, the gigantic killer animatronic doll that introduces viewers to how deadly the game is, will be introduced.
“Join us once more for a whole new round,” the statement concludes.
Here are the tweets:
Hwang Dong-Hyuk writer, director, producer, and creator of @squidgame has a message for the fans: pic.twitter.com/DxF0AS5tMM
— Netflix (@netflix) June 12, 2022
Young-hee found a robot bae? Hopefully, her newfound love won’t soften her. After the show’s massive success late last year, it was all but confirmed that a season 2 would be on the way; and then in January Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said there would be more episodes, but this teaser is the first real glimpse we’ve been given of anything. The season probably won’t arrive until the end of 2023 or early 2024, so in the meantime, fans will just have to hypothesize about which deadly games we’ll get to see next. “The Floor is Lava” with actual lava? Dodgeball with hand grenades? Making it to the Target bathroom after chugging a large iced coffee without running into someone you know but lowkey loathe who hasn’t “seen you in forever, girl!” and wants to catch up without you shitting yourself and then dying of embarrassment? So much time to speculate!
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