Squid Game season two blasts past Wednesday to set huge Netflix record
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‘Wednesday’ set the previous record in 2022. This sets a new Netflix record for viewership in a premiere week, beating the 50.1 million views that Wednesday accrued when it was launched in 2022. The second season of the Korean-language series Squid Game — which sees hundreds of cash-strapped individuals compete in deadly games for a life-changing sum of money — was released on the streamer on December 26.
![[Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun/Player 456 in ‘Squid Game’ season 2]](https://static.independent.co.uk/2024/12/29/17/Squidgame_Unit_203_N049266.jpg)
*Warning — Spoilers ahead for the ‘Squid Game’ season two finale ahead*. He explained that he had originally planned on writing the second season story across a span of about eight to nine episodes, but “once I finished the story, it came to over 10 episodes, which I thought was too long to contain in a single season.”.
“So I wanted to have an adequate point where I could give closure as a second season and then move on with the third,” he continued. Going on to speak about all of the obstacles the series’ star Gi-hun/Player 456 faced, Hwang said all of his failures led to a heavy climax — the death of his best friend Jung-bae (Lee Seo-hwan), at the hands of The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun).
“And when you think about Gi-hun’s journey, I thought that that was an adequate moment to put a stop and give him a little bit of closure along that long story arc,” Hwang added, revealing that the third season will pick up with Gi-hun “having that sense of huge guilt and sense of failure weighing heavily on him.”.
