Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer With 456 players involved at the titular deadly competition in “Squid Game,” viewers are sure to have a hard time keeping every character straight when they start binge-watching Season 2 at launch on Dec.
26. The good news is, not every one of those players is essential to the story of Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) return to the games.
See below for a guide to all of the key new “Squid Game” — and just a handful of returning, seeing as most of the Season 1 cast was wiped out by its fatal finale — characters that appear both in and outside the games.
Beware: Spoilers ahead for the first few episodes. The winner of the Squid Game that took place three years ago, Gi-hun has decided to re-enter in an attempt to figure out who is still running it after the death of game creator Oh Il-nam and take them down.
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