On December 26th, 2024 Squid Games season 2 created by Hwang Dong-hyuk was released on the streaming service Netflix just 3 years after season 1. Players who are in need of paying off their debt all come together to participate in these games but the stakes are deadly. With new players and new games, player 456 is determined to stop them once and for all.
In season 1 player 456 (Seong Gi-hun) who’s played by Lee Jung-Jae and successfully won the 45.6 billion won by completing the 6 children games successfully. Such as Red light green light, Dalgona, Tug-of War, Marbals,
Glass bridge, and bread and lottery. Each game eliminates players as the rounds go on increasing the cash prize as each player is worth 100 million won. In season 2 we see how player 456 prepares himself to go back to the games in order to try to save everyone from their deaths. While player 456 is the only player with past experiences he begins to try to help players yet he soon finds out other players don’t trust him when they find out the games aren’t the same as before. In season 2 we still get Red light Green Light but we get 3 new games such as Mingle, Russian roulette, and Rock paper scissors. Players get to vote after each round to leave and split the cash prize within the players yet if majority of the players vote to stay they will begin playing the games. One round it was up to the front man to choose the last vote and determine if they will go on and he did making players play again all under the disguise of an actual player. He finds himself playing the games with Hwang Ju-ho also known as the front man which gives the new season a huge plot twist.
Season 2 was a big hit with it being the third most-watched season of television ever on Netflix. The new season also is the most watched title of the week 26.3 million views. Making it able to reach the Top 10 in all countries. With viewers waiting 3 years for the new season to come out we have some honest reviews.
“I really liked it and it was really thrilling and i was excited to watch each new episode.” Freshman Emily Martinez said. “I thought the first part was boring but when he started going to the games i thought it got better and i thought the ending got better.” Freshman Jade Naseiro said. “It was good it was just some parts i didn’t like, i didn’t like how the ending left us at a cliff hanger i feel like that was really unnecessary and they could’ve just put it into more episodes. They also killed uni and i didn’t like that. I also found it weird how they took away 456’s little tracker in his tooth but they didn’t take away the grandmas knife in her hair or Thanos’s drugs. (Freshman Sabrina Phan says).
With everyone going along the intense journey of player 456 putting an end to Squid games it ends the season with emotional deaths and many questions but it seems the games are far from over. Overall Squid games season 2 was a success and left fans excited for new upcoming seasons in the future.
