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Lee Jung-Jae returns as Participant 456 all by means of the second season of Squid Sport.
The 2021 Korean sequence Squid Sport was an unlimited 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 video video games throughout the route of 455 utterly utterly totally different players for money. The twist? Contained in the occasion you lose a sport, you die. Contained in the occasion you cheat, you die. And everytime 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 as a consequence 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.
Contained within the S1 finale, Gi-hun confronted off throughout the route of fellow finalist and childhood buddy Cho Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo) all by means of the titular “squid sport.” He gained their wrestle 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 a substitute stabbed himself all by means of the neck and requested Gi-hun to deal with his mother. Wracked with guilt, Gi-hun was about to fly to America to reside collectively alongside alongside along with his daughter when he seen the game recruiter attempting to entice one utterly totally different decided express particular person. He didn’t get on the airplane, deciding as another choice to aim to re-enter the game and take it down from the inside.