The Games are back!
The highly anticipated second season of Squid Game, one of the most popular dystopian shows on Netflix, just released. This past December, the show dropped 7 new episodes where adults of all ages compete in childhood Korean games to win money. Slight spoiler alerts ahead if you have not watched season one or two!
We come back to our main character, Seong Gi-hun, who after winning the first seasons games decides he wants to hunt down the people running them and put an end to it all. It seems like it starts to work until he is face to face with the frontman and chooses to join the games again in order to take the system down from within. Throughout playing the games, Seong Gi-hun meets new people as well as familiar faces and tries to coach the new batch of players into making careful decisions to save everyone.
Coming into this season, I as well as others honestly thought it was a money grab. I watched during vacation as my holiday binge show and ended up getting easily addicted to the plot. The show added new games into the mix which was thrilling and unexpected to watch each challenge play out. The season’s new characters and friendships that developed felt just as realistic and devastating as it was the first season, if not more. Overall, if you were a fan of the first season or think you’d want to commit to this action packed show, i’d recommend giving it a watch.
