Player 456 is back for revenge in Squid Game S2 trailer

The 2021 Korean sequence Squid Sport was a big hit for Netflix, racking up 1.65 billion viewing hours in its first 4 weeks and snagging 14 Emmy nominations. Followers have been anticipating a second season ever since, and we’re lastly getting it this yr for Christmas. Netflix merely launched the official trailer.

(Spoilers for S1 beneath.)

The first season adopted Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-Jae, seen earlier this yr in The Acolyte), a down-on-his-luck gambler who has little left to lose when he agrees to play children’s playground video video games in the direction of 455 totally different players for money. The twist? Within the occasion you lose a sport, you die. Within the occasion you cheat, you die. And when you occur to win, you might also die.

“The grotesque spectacle of Squid Sport is the place it’s going to get most of its enchantment, nonetheless it resonates because of how relatable Gi-hun and the rest of the game’s contestants are,” Ars Senior Experience Reporter Andrew Cunningham wrote in our 2021 year-end TV roundup. “Alienated from society and each other, pushed by guilt or shame or delight or desperation, each of the players we get to know is inescapably humanwhich is why Squid Sport is additional than solely a gory sideshow.

Inside the S1 finale, Gi-hun confronted off in the direction of fellow finalist and childhood buddy Cho Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo) throughout the titular “squid sport.” He gained their fight nonetheless refused to kill his buddy, begging Sang-woo to stop the game by invoking a selected clause of their contract whereby they get to reside—nonetheless do not get the prize money. Sang-woo as an alternative stabbed himself throughout the neck and requested Gi-hun to take care of his mother. Wracked with guilt, Gi-hun was about to fly to America to reside collectively along with his daughter when he seen the game recruiter attempting to entice one different decided particular person. He didn’t get on the plane, deciding as an alternative to aim to re-enter the game and take it down from the inside.