{"id":39860,"date":"2021-11-10T15:42:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=39860"},"modified":"2021-11-10T15:42:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:42:38","slug":"squid-game-season-2-netflix-hwang-dong-hyuk","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/squid-game-season-2-netflix-hwang-dong-hyuk\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSquid Game\u201d Creator Gives New Reason to Hope\u2014or Fear\u2014That a Second Season Is Imminent"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39861\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-39861\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2021\/11\/SquidGame_Unit_103_1076-e1636558527664.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A masked guard in Squid Game\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A masked guard in <i>Squid Game<\/i> (Photo: Youngkyu Park\/Netflix)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At this point, more <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/squid-game-tracksuit-fashion\/\"><em>Squid Game<\/em><\/a> seems inevitable\u2014so much so that creator Hwang Dong-hyuk feels he has \u201cno choice\u201d but to deliver a second season of the hit dystopian drama. He admitted as much at a special screening of the series hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/netflix-fashion-shows-movies\/\">Netflix<\/a> at NeueHouse in Los Angeles this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been so much pressure, so much demand and so much love for a second season,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APEntertainment\/status\/1458060909319004170\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> the Associated Press on the red carpet. \u201cSo, I almost feel like you leave us no choice!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hwang said he has a rough idea of what a second season of the series would be about. Though he insisted that it was too early to talk specifics, he did promise this: \u201cGi-hun will come back. He\u2019ll do something for the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">COMEBACK SQUID: Hwang Dong-hyuk, the director, creator, writer of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SquidGame?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">#SquidGame<\/a> says the show will be back with more Gi-hun adventures. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uqC1DIdZqy\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/uqC1DIdZqy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AP Entertainment (@APEntertainment) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/APEntertainment\/status\/1458060909319004170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">November 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Netflix, meanwhile, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/10\/entertainment\/squid-game-second-season-scli-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">not yet confirmed<\/a> a second season.<\/p>\n<p>The South Korean series has been, by all accounts, a major surprise hit for Netflix, and is possibly the streaming service\u2019s most viewed show ever. It concerns a group of economically disadvantaged people who agree to compete in deadly children\u2019s games in the hopes of winning a life-changing cash prize. Spoiler alert: Season 1 ended with gambler and deadbeat dad Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) seemingly setting out to find the sinister cabal behind the games\u2014the perfect set-up for another season.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Hwang discussed his <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/netflixs-squid-game-looking-far-more-likely-to-get-a-se-1847792709\" target=\"_blank\">ideas<\/a> for where the story could go. While the first season revolved around the theme of economic inequality, Hwang is interested in exploring another timely hot button issue in a future installment: police corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the issue with police officers is not just an issue in Korea,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/squid-game-new-netflix-series-hoyeong-jung-hwang-dong-hyuk-interview-korean-thriller-7ttqr2wv5\" target=\"_blank\">told<\/a> <em>The Times<\/em> last month. \u201cI see it on the global news that the police force can be very late on acting on things\u2014there are more victims or a situation gets worse because of them not acting fast enough. This was an issue that I wanted to raise. Maybe in season two I can talk about this more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/squid-game-season-2-netflix\/\">misgivings<\/a> about whether more <em>Squid Game<\/em> is a good idea. But if a second season is inevitable\u2014and let\u2019s be real, there\u2019s no way Netflix <em>isn\u2019t<\/em> going to make more of its biggest hit ever\u2014at least Hwang seems intent on sneaking more social commentary into the bloody hijinks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29097,"featured_media":39861,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16,3925],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cSquid Game\u201d Creator Gives New Reason to Hope\u2014or Fear\u2014That a Second Season Is Imminent<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk feels he has \u201cno choice\u201d but to deliver a second season of the hit dystopian drama. 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