Squid Game season 2 is even more disturbing for a tragic reason
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No one could have anticipated the impact that Squid Game would have on the world when it first premiered three years ago. Not just as a TV series that left millions of people gripped, becoming one of Netflix’s most watched and critically-acclaimed shows ever.
![[Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun in Squid Game season two]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_233645884-22d1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
But also as a cultural phenomenon – a piece of art that prompted people to take a good hard look at themselves and the society they live in, and to question what they would do if they faced life-or-death situations as surreal as those that make up the plot of the drama.
![[Squid Game S2 Wi Ha-jun as Hwang Jun-ho in Squid Game S2 Cr. No Ju-han/Netflix ?? 2024]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_233645878-621f.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Finally, season 2 has arrived in time for Boxing Day with seven new episodes to binge in one go… and it’s even more tragic than the first for a disturbing reason. Squid Game inevitably now has less of a shock factor than it did the first time around, given it previously introduced a brand new concept for a TV series that left viewers in a mixed state of horror and awe.
![[Squid Game S2 Lee Byung-hun as Front Man in Squid Game S2 Cr. No Ju-han/Netflix ?? 2024]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_234185979-b3b7.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Nonetheless, the second season still manages to find an innovative way for lead character Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) to re-enter the game, this time as a former winner who bagged an enormous fortune and is now dead set on seeking revenge for all of the lives lost.
![[Squid Game S2 Lee Byung-hun as Front Man in Squid Game S2 Cr. No Ju-han/Netflix ?? 2024]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SEI_233645889-8b13.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
