The dramatically lit teaser shows each player's number on the back of their jackets, up to Gi-hun's #456.
Season two picks up three years after Gi-hun won Squid Game. He gives up on going to the United States and returns with a new resolution in his mind. He dives back into the mysterious survival game and starts a new game of life and death with new participants who come together to win the prize of 45.6 billion won.
Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk previously revealed that Gi-hun will take revenge in the new season and enter the game as a different, more serious character.
In the first season, Dong-hyuk made history as the first Asian to win an Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series. Jung-jae also became the first Asian man to win Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and also the first to win the award for a non-English series.
Squid Game also became Netflix’s most popular series of all time, with a record 1.65 billion views in the first 28 days after its premiere in 2021.
After revealing that season two of Squid Game would debut on Thursday, December 26, Netflix announced last month that the third and final season would follow in 2025.
Furthermore, it was not the creator's intention to make more than one season. It was more or less forced upon him by Netflix because of the enormous hype and influx of the series.
The first season had a complete story, this continuation is not necessary or even logical. And when I read the content now, it seems to follow more or less the same pattern. I am curious how they are going to spin it that he is going to participate again, while he basically achieved all his goals in the first season. But otherwise I do not have high expectations in terms of originality.