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Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has confirmed there will be a second season and that planning for the follow-up has already begun.
Squid Game has been the unexpected hit of 2021. Two months ago, none of us had ever even heard of the Netflix hit. Now more than 111 million of us have watched at least part of the show's debut season. Fair warning, there will be spoilers ahead if you haven't watched Squid Game through to the end, as its creator has now confirmed there will be a season two.
Hwang Dong-hyuk wrote and directed Squid Game after no one was willing to run with his idea for more than a decade. The writer has been thrust into the spotlight ever since and recently admitted, as you can see and hear for yourselves in the tweet below, that there has been a lot of pressure to write a second season of Squid Game.
“There's been so much pressure, so much demand, and so much love for a second season. So I almost feel like you leave us no choice,” Dong-hyuk joked. “There will indeed be a second season. It's in my head right now. I'm in the planning process currently.” Dong-hyuk has discussed the possibility of a Squid Game season two before now, but this is the first time he has confirmed it is actually happening.
Here come those spoilers. The very premise of Squid Game means that almost all of the first season's main characters have been killed off. The only survivor of the game itself was Seong Gi-hun who won the billions on offer for outlasting 455 other people. Season one ends with Gi-hun bailing on a flight to the US, seemingly so he can try and take down those running the deadly game he survived.
A second season will likely focus around Gi-hun trying to take the games down, as files discovered during the first season suggest the event takes place every year. While you wait for Dong-hyuk to write season two, there are plenty of ways to fill the Squid Game-shaped hole in your life right now. The best way might well be to play an unofficial game inspired by the show. It's called Crab Game and it's currently free-to-play on Steam. It has also been attracting thousands of viewers on Twitch.