The popular series by Netflix, Squid Game now has its second season. The premiere will consist of seven episodes and will subsequently be broadcast online around the world on December 26, 2024.
Release Date, Time and Where to Stream
Squid Game Season 2 will be available on Netflix immediately at midnight PT/3 AM ET on December 26 for users in the United States. International fans can stream it at 4 a.m. Brazil Time, 8 a.m. UK Time, 9 a.m. Central European Summer Time, 12:30 p.m. India Standard Time, 5 p.m. Australia Time and 7. New Zealand Time.
Episode Schedule
This season is made up of 7 episodes, two episodes less than in Season 1. Of course, there will be fewer episodes in season 2 because Gaiman and Robbins planned seasons 2 and 3 simultaneously. The creator Hwang said that he believed that the show planned to finish in Episode 7 seemed logical.
Hwang said in an interview with Deadline that all the two seasons were recorded at the same time, while the work on the post-production of the third season was carried out. They found where to divide the seasons by Episode 7 in the script and it was a good justification for that choice. The seven episodes of the second season will be dropped all at once on the platform by December 26.
Storyline
The second season is all about the ongoing Survival game after Gi-hun comes back to play in it. Its purpose is to find out where this competition started and prevent it from happening in the future.
At the end of season 1, Gi-hun was the winner though he failed to enjoy his victory fully due to trauma, and guilt. Refusing to go to America to be with his daughter, Gi-hun promises to bring down the games after watching new people approaching them. Hwang opens that it is about the change of Gi-hun and his unwillingness to go back to the mundane world.
Season 3
Squid Game Season 3 will be released in 2025. An official date is yet to be announced.
Controversy
Squid Game has been renewed for a second season and the audience is waiting to know what awaits a new set of actors and the contestants. The second season of the much-loved international drama series is returning with BIGBANG’s T.O.P., a South Korean K-pop star whose real name is Choi Seung-Hyun, after a 7-year gap from the show. The South Korean drama directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, an Emmy winner, hit worldwide audiences and critics’ hearts when the show of the first season was launched in 2021.
Based on an idea of a series of thrillers, 456 players who are in severe financial difficulties agree to endanger their lives participating in a number of children’s games in order to become winners, and therefore, discuss an emerging hierarchical society having an element of superiority and superiority of one over the other.
Lee Jung-Jae, Park Gyu-Young, Park Sung-Hoon will be joined K-pop rapper, he is an actor and dancer: Player 230, the villain of this season. Lovers of the K-pop group already know that T.O.P have an ability to act and play the roles of complicated characters in every acting experience, which is why his return to acting in this role leaves fans of the star eagerly awaiting him on the screen. The splendor unveiled by Netflix in the cast of upcoming and hit series reveals a new season of Squid Game fans are in for the unpredictability.
Squid Game’s Season 2 includes T.O.P as the host of the game but turns out the question is about his character in this show.
The short teaser on the Netflix for the second season also shows that T.O.P’s character is Player 230 Thanos. By all means the teaser was brilliant in capturing the undercurrent that is stringing in the second season of the widely acclaimed drama series. During the Netflix “Meet the Cast” video, T.O.P gave a little insight into his character and how he is in a life or death situation.
“Thanos is a retired rapper. After watching Myung-gi’s YouTube and putting full confidence in him, Thanos went all-in, investing all the money he’d saved. But he ended up losing it all, which led him to join the game.”
Without revealing much about this character, but the rapper explained how he got his character into a financially complicated situation, forcing him to gamble. One of the scenes previewed from the video portrays the fight of T.O.P.’s character with Myung-gi portrayed by Yim Si-wan.
As mentioned in the Squid Game teaser video, Myung-gi is a YouTuber who defrauded his audience out of their money with cryptocurrency con and caused others to do so as well. The hatred is thus revealed after Myung-gi is determined to become another player in the games, where he meets Thanos.
Controversial Character in ‘Squid Game’
While the devoted fans of BIGBANG cannot wait for the show to see the Korean rapper acting again, some viewers have skyrocketing negative attitudes toward his participation in the widely praised Netflix show.
The problem lies in a legal case that dates back to 2017 when T.O.P failed his drugs test following marijuana’s legal use but was convicted to 10 months imprisonment and 2 years probation. He was also exempted from military services that all the Korean men are required to undertake. The elaborate comeback was not one to last; the director has since spoken up more about the hate recently during interviews for the much-awaited second season of Squid Game.
However, the director Hwang Dong-hyuk did not back down for his decision or for the actor he considered would fit the role. He said that T.O.P. did everything he could for this role and he saw the efforts from his audition. He notice T.O.P. tried to develop a new masterpiece with the Squid Game Season 2 and did not miss that chance. Both teamed up to make artists see that he has talent, and that he was not the same one again.
“I have no choice but to show the results of why I had to do this project with this actor. That’s why I didn’t back out and went ahead with it. You may be very curious, and you may not understand why I insisted on Choi Seung-hyun. However, I will reveal that I had my own process.”
Regardless of the controversy, fans of the hit series are excited to see what the creators have in store this season and to see some of their favorite characters back on their screens. In the stauntest Squid Game fashion, fans can expect a wild ride and shocking deaths. Squid Game Season 2 is streaming on Netflix on December 26.
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