‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Creator Hwang Dong-Hyuk & Stars Lee Jung-Jae, Lee Byung-Hun On Crafting A Tale Of Friends Or Foes

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SPOILER ALERT:This interview contains details of Season 2 of Netflix’s Squid Game. A new series of sinister games are afoot.

After three years of a highly anticipated wait, the record-breaking Netflix series Squid Gamehas re-entered the zeitgeist with the recent debut of Season 2.

The latest season picks up a few years after the events of the first season, which ended with Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), also known as player 456, winning the initial games, earning the ₩45.6 billion cash-out prize.

However, instead of enjoying his millions, he has nothing but trauma to show for it. Still grappling with survivors’ guilt, Gi-hun has spent three years steeped in paranoia and isolation while trying to come up with a plan to use his newfound wealth to not only stop the games but also to overthrow the system and its overseers.