Squid Game season two is officially happening, Netflix confirms

It’s been given the ‘green light’: Squid Game will officially be returning for a second season.

Netflix’s co-CEO and chief content officer Ted Sarandos confirmed the news during Netflix’s fourth quarter 2021 earnings interview, where he said there ‘absolutely’ will be a second season of the violent South Korean survival drama.

Sarandos said, as per Variety: “Absolutely… The Squid Game universe has just begun.”

Squid Game’s creator and director Hwang Dong-hyu has also hinted at the possibility of continuing the series, with him telling the Associated Press last year that the huge success of the first season had left him ‘no choice’ but to continue.

Dong-hyu explained: “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.

“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 series, 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 142 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 try their hand at one of the deadly games featured in the third episode of the series. 

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In the episode, 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.

The Trafford Centre even welcomed the giant animatronic doll from the ‘Red Light Green Light’ game in the first episode, enabling shoppers 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, pointing out that a killer doll isn’t exactly ‘family friendly’.