Squid Game Season 2 will be released on Netflix on Dec. 26. The plot is set after three years of Seong Gi-hun’s victory in the first game, where Gi-hun joins the game again in an attempt to end Squid Game. Gi-hun seeks justice in dismantling the game, which creates tension in the complexity of social dilemmas. The drama continues to explore human morals and the blurred line between money and morality.
Returning cast members, which include Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun, Gong Yoo, and Wi Ha-joo, will continue to take their roles as introduced in the first season. But the second season adds new characters to the plot, including Yim Si-wan, Kang Ha-neul, Park Sung-hoon, and Yang Dong-geun. The popularity of the cast members entices the audience to closely follow the release, while also indicating the considerable costs and resources in the filmmaking process. By implementing young cast members, it reflects the current socioeconomic issue in which more and more youngsters devote themselves—perhaps even their lives—in earning money. The drama nevertheless revisits the impact of money in humanity by reintroducing the question: can money buy everything, even lives and moral principles?
Squid Game 2 will arrive with deadlier games, thereby forming the tension between the players and the audience. Hwang Dong-hyuk, the creator of Squid Game 2, asserted that this new season will have an intense focus on moral complexity and emotional values, which paves a thrilling experience for the players and the audience. As the audiences relate to the human nature explored by the drama, it is promised that audiences will undergo a thought-provoking process while watching.
Squid Game 2 continues to illustrate issues of the societal system. Wealth and power are closely connected and are portrayed as the central theme of the drama. They enable the audience to conclude the statement that poor people are always the toys of wealthy people. In the case of Squid Game 2, Gi-hun’s role is to prove the statement wrong. Will Gi-hun succeed in his plan of dismantling the game? Or will he comply with the power of money like his fellow players? The only way to find out is by watching the drama!
