TV & Film
Squid Game creator confirms season 2 is officially happening
‘There’s been so much pressure, so much demand, and so much love for a second season… So I almost feel like you leave us no choice’
The creator of Netflix’s smash hit series Squid Game has announced that there will ‘indeed’ be a second season.
Hwang Dong-hyu, who also directed the show, was speaking to the Associated Press about the massive success Squid Game experienced following its release on Netflix back in September, when he was asked about the possibility of a second instalment.
There, Dong-hyu explained: “So, there’s been so much pressure, so much demand, and so much love for a second season. So I almost feel like you leave us no choice.
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“But, I will say there will indeed be a second season. It’s in my head right now. I’m in the planning process currently. But I do think it’s too early to say when and how that’s going to happen.”
The South Korean show, which focuses on a sinister ‘game’ played by people riddled with debt, is now the most watched in Netflix’s history, with the streaming service confirming in October that over 111 million accounts all over the world had tuned in to watch.
Manchester was one of the many cities to descend into Squid Game mayhem following its release, with a cafe in the Corn Exchange even baking its own dalgona cookies for people to play one of the deadly games featured in the third episode of the series – contestants were tasked with cutting shapes out of dalgona candy, a South Korean biscuit made from honeycomb.
If they failed to cut out their shape – either a star, a circle, a triangle or an umbrella – within the nail-biting time limit, however, they got ‘eliminated’… Or shot dead by the prowling, red suit-clad guards, for those who still haven’t got round to watching the series.
And just last weekend, the sinister animatronic doll from the first game, ‘Red Light, Green Light’ arrived for one day at the Trafford Centre, where shoppers were able to take selfies and receive Squid Game memorabilia from the red suit-clad guards.
People flocked to see the doll throughout the day, though many were quick to criticise its presence after the shopping centre’s famous singing tree was axed, pointing out that a killer doll isn’t exactly ‘family friendly’.
One social media user wrote: “Brilliant – a sinister mechanical doll and a couple stooges from an organisation that brutally murder vulnerable people and harvest their organs. What exactly is this in a shopping centre for families to see?”
Another commented: “This is a joke. Will not have singing trees as upset the kids… but bring the bloody girl from a sick Netflix programme.”