'Squid Game is finally back with so many twists and turns you won't be able to look away'
'Squid Game is finally back with so many twists and turns you won't be able to look away'
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It has been three years since viewers across the globe were pinned to their sofas, gripped and horrified by Squid Game. Netflix ’s biggest ever debut series, the South Korean shock-thriller hit was nail-biting TV and hard to pause. The stressful, dystopian plot followed desperate, broke “losers” who agreed to compete in a series of children’s games with a violent twist.
Win the games, win millions. Lose – get shot in the head by a soldier in a mask and pink jumpsuit. It is all messed up, sinister… and thrilling. Now Squid Game faces the difficult Second Album Syndrome, with expectations through the roof. Director Hwang Dong-Hyuk (so stressed during season one he lost several teeth), admits: “I felt pressure to create a set of all-new games which took things to the next level.” When we last saw Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), aka Player 456, he had just won but declared his intent to find out who is behind the deadly game.
Now, he is still determined to put an end to the vicious bloodsport. Jun-ho (Wi Ha-jun) is back in the police but in traffic. He knows the truth about the games, and knows his brother is the evil Front Man. It is inevitable these two heroes will find each other and form an alliance, but in terms of the over arching plot, it is a disappointingly slow start.
