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A brand new season of the hit dystopian drama “Squid Recreation” will premiere on Netflix the day after Christmas.
“Squid Game” Season 2 will choose up three years after the primary season left off, and the video games are going to be “as sinister as ever,” Netflix mentioned on its Tudum blog.
Participant 456, or Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), will return to the competitors and face a sequence of latest opponents vying for the prize of 45.6 billion gained — and this time round, he’s on a mission to place an finish to the lethal video games.
Gi-hun can be “a unique individual” within the new season, director Hwang Dong-hyuk advised Entertainment Weekly in September.
“In season 2, you’ll not be getting the silly and clumsy or infantile at instances Gi-hun that you simply noticed at first,” Hwang mentioned. “You’re going to get to see a a lot heavier, darker aspect.”
Different characters will return from Season 1, together with Entrance Man (Lee-Byung-hun), Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-jun) and the Recruiter (Gong Yoo), based on Netflix.
A number of newcomers can even be a part of the solid for the upcoming season, together with South Korean boy band singer Yim Si-wan, “When the Camellia Blooms” star Kang Ha-neul and “A Good Day to Be a Canine” star Park Gyu-young.
When the primary season of “Squid Recreation” premiered in September 2021, it turned Netflix’s biggest series launch ever, with 111 million subscribers tuning into the nine-episode dystopian sequence throughout its first month.
The present went on to rack up an viewers of 330 million viewers, who watched a cumulative 2.8 billion hours of the sequence, Variety reported earlier this month.
Learn on for particulars about when “Squid Recreation” Season 2 will premiere on Netflix in December.
‘Squid Recreation’ Season 2 will premiere on Netflix on Dec. 26, the streaming service confirmed in a teaser trailer.
‘Squid Recreation’ Season 2 will stream on Netflix beginning at 3 a.m. ET/12 p.m. PT, the streamed confirmed to TODAY.com.
Lindsay Lowe has been an everyday contributor to TODAY.com since 2016, masking popular culture, fashion, dwelling and different life-style subjects. She can be engaged on her first novel, a home drama set in rural Regency England.
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