Squid Game 2 soon on Netflix; fans ecstatic and memes pop up
The announcement that season 2 of the Korean superhit series, Squid Game, that took the OTT world by storm last year, will be back on Netflix, has generated a lot of excitement among fans.
After Hwang Dong-hyuk, director, writer and executive producer of Squid Game released a letter titled, ‘A Whole New Round is coming’, Twitterati went wild asking for characters who died in the first season to be brought back. Memes popped up as one showed Amber Heard glumly standing in line to participate in the most brutal and deadly game to win an obscene amount of money (the basic premise of Squid Game). One of the main protagonists in Squid Game asks Heard: ‘What are you doing here, to which she replies, ‘I gotta pay Johnny Depp’.
Who did this? #SquidGame #AmberTurd pic.twitter.com/Ty9expIluK
— Berlin 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 (@_FamilyMan_berl) June 4, 2022
In his note, the director Dong-hyuk said the main protagonist Gi-hun and the mysterious Front Man will return in season 2, as well as “the man in the suit with ddakji might be back.” We’ll also get introduced to Cheol-su, Young-hee’s boyfriend, he added. Only that Young-hee happens to be the name of the animatronic doll from Squid Game responsible for the first nasty red light-green light game. She became so popular in Korea and elsewhere that Young-hee’s dolls became a rage.
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
Also read: Squid Game: The fascinating story behind Netflix’s most-watched series
Season 1 of the 9-episode series Squid Game is set around a mysterious invitation sent out to people in Korea who are in dire need of money. 456 participants from all walks of life are then locked in a secret location where they play games in order to win 45.6 billion Korean won (38 million US$).
The horrific twist here is that every game is a Korean traditional children’s game such as Red Light, Green Light, Tug-of-War, Marbles, Hop-scotch etc. If they lose, they die in terrifying and inhumane ways — even as a group of billionaires watch the games for their own voyeuristic pleasure. It’s meant to be a commentary on the desperation and misery of the lower economic class, who are willing to participate even though they are gambling their lives away.
Although they’re given the option to leave the game at the beginning of the show, the participants ultimately return, realising that scraping by in the real world with no escape from gruelling poverty is possibly worse than risking death for a life-changing prize.
Season 1 of the show ended with Gi-hun winning the game. Even as he fulfills the wish of his friend who dies in the game, to take care of his mother, Gi-hun realizes that the deadly game is still thriving in his town in secret. The series was visually very striking and its popularity caught the makers of the show also by surprise.
