Netflix series 'The Squid Game' Season 2 first trailer picks up where the finale left off

It’s been a long time since the summer of 2021, when everyone (but absolutely everyone) got hooked on ‘The Squid Game.’ The Korean Netflix series became a mass phenomenon on a par with ‘Stranger Things’ and since then has had its own reality show and a multitude of video game versions. Despite dozens of spin-offs, we were missing a second season. Until now.

Netflix has just released a first look at ‘The Squid Game’ Season 2. It is a very short video that picks up the story where we left off, with Seong Gi-hun dyed red and at an airport. The protagonist was about to fly to the United States to meet his daughter when he sees someone being recruited for a new edition of the contest and decides to postpone his trip to stop those behind it and stop the cycle of deaths. This is where the teaser shared by the streaming platform begins:

How did ‘The Squid Game’ Season 1 ends?

For those who don’t remember the ending of ‘The Squid Game’ (normal after three years of waiting), we leave you with a short summary:

After winning the competition, Seong Gi-hun was so depressed and regretful that he was unable to touch a single won he had won (no pun intended). When he returned home, he discovered that his mother had died and his daughter had left for the United States with his ex-wife. Hopeless and desperate, he spent a year in misery until he received a mysterious card after buying flowers on the street. When he went to meet his gganbu, Oh Il-nam, the old man he had befriended and thought he had condemned to die after beating him at marbles.

Bedridden in a hospital bed, the oldest contestant revealed himself to be one of the masterminds behind the Squid Game. Before he died, he explained to Seong his opinion of human beings and confessed that he had created the contest with other billionaires some time ago, encouraging him to participate in the twilight of his life “just for fun.” After their conversation, Gganbu died.

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With renewed determination, the protagonist searched for Kang Sae-byeok’s brother and Cho Sang-woo’s mother, both participants in the Squid Game, and gave them part of the prize to change their lives and overcome the death of their relatives. Meanwhile, Seong Gi-hun changed his appearance, dyed his hair red and was about to travel to the United States to be reunited with his daughter. At least until what we told you before, until the first trailer of this second season starts.

How will Seong stop the other billionaires? Will he enter a new edition of the competition? And if so... what other tests based on children’s games would he have to face? Although there is no date to know the answers, Netflix promises us that the series will arrive this 2024.