Squid Recreation Season 2 Will Be All About Divisions—and the Struggle to Overcome Them

Squid Game season one—a couple of determined man who dangers every little thing by becoming a member of a mysterious competitors the place your two choices are win (large) or die (horribly)—was definitely not too eager about themes of concord. However in keeping with Emmy-winning director, author, and producer Hwang Dong-hyuk, season two will lean even tougher into the concept of individuals taking sides.

Talking to the Hollywood Reporter, Hwang defined he’s properly conscious that Squid Game season two might be arriving not lengthy after an election sowed much more division amongst a few of the present’s largest followers (People, clearly), although he thinks its message is really a worldwide one. ““In Korea nowadays, we’re seeing a lot worse battle between the aged and the youthful technology. And also you see demarcation all over the place. There’s no room for debate, solely hostility. So I used to be impressed by the course all the world is taking,” he informed the commerce.

He continued. “I used to be impressed by the sheer indisputable fact that all over the place you flip, persons are drawing strains, whether or not it’s by technology, class, faith, ethnicity or race. I needed to inform a narrative about how the totally different decisions we make create conflicts amongst us and to open up a dialog about whether or not there’s a technique to transfer towards a course the place we are able to overcome these divisions.”

The interview additionally digs into what impressed the thrust of season two: the concept Participant 456 (Lee Jung-Jae’s Gi-hun) would return for one other spherical after rising victorious in opposition to all odds in season one. (Right here’s the official synopsis: “Three years after profitable Squid Recreation, Participant 456 gave up going to the states and comes again with a brand new decision in his thoughts. Gi-hun as soon as once more dives into the mysterious survival recreation, beginning one other life-or-death recreation with new individuals gathered to win the prize of 456 billion received.”)

Hwang defined he took a cue from one other dystopian story: “I used to be interested by Gi-hun’s unfinished quest, and concerning the Matrix the place Neo is given the choice of the blue or pink capsule. He might have simply lived fortunately on, however he chooses to take the capsule the place he turns into conscious of the Matrix and struggles to get away from it.”

The THR profile is certainly price a full learn to be taught extra about Hwang, his background, and what he thought concerning the big-ticket actuality exhibits that spawned from Squid Recreation, a sequence that explicitly cautions in opposition to greed. The piece additionally provides a reminder that there’s much more happening in Squid Recreation than satire and slaughter.

“I’d love for it to offer you meals for thought, that will help you ask questions,” Hwang stated of his creation. “This sequence holds in it each emotion I feel I’ve ever felt when it comes to the way in which I view human beings and the world, all the weather of tragedy and comedy all through life. It’s all in there.”

Together with Lee Jung-jae, the solid consists of Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-jun, and Gong Yoo, all again from season one—in addition to new faces Yim Si-wan, Kang Ha-neul, Park Gyu-young, Lee Jin-uk, Park Sung-hoon, Yang Dong-geun, Kang Ae-sim, Lee David, Choi Seung-hyun, Roh Jae-won, Jo Yu-ri, and Gained Ji-an.

Squid Recreation season two premieres December 26 on Netflix.

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