Netflix has dropped a new “Special Teaser” for the upcoming Squid Game: Season 2, and the roughly one-minute video actually gives us quite a bit of information about the upcoming season. If you want to go into Squid Game: Season 2 completely blind when it drops on December 26, you might want to skip it. But if you’re like us and looking for any more Squid Game goodness, here’s what we’ve gathered from the teaser.
Return of Gi-hun (and Player 456)
Even though Squid Game: Season 1 ended with the main character Seong Gi-hun planning to head to the United States and never return to the madness that is Squid Game, we quickly realize that’s not the case. Even though Squid Game: Season 2 takes place three years after Gi-hun won Squid Game, in the teaser we see Gi-hun once again waking up in the infamous room full of stacked bunk beds with other contestants which confirms what many have suspected: For one reason or another, Gi-hun is once again a contestant in Squid Game.
Oh, and he’s once again rocking the Player 456 jumpsuit. Assuming the second season’s challenge also consists of 456 players like the first, that makes it highly unlikely that Gi-hun just so happened to randomly get the number in back to back Squid Games. And in the teaser, Gi-hun wakes up in the room of beds seemingly surprised to be there. So what does this mean? It’s highly likely that someone—perhaps even the Front Man, In-ho, from Season 1—is messing with Gi-hun for some reason.
However, it’s also possible that the teaser is intentionally misleading its viewers into thinking Gi-hun is surprised to be there. Perhaps Gi-hun has intentionally returned to the game with the goal of seeking revenge, or perhaps Gi-hun has returned to the Squid Game in the role that Oh Il-nam, the old man, played in Season 1: not as an actual contestant, but a “hidden player” for one reason or another.
Plenty of New Games
As expected, it looks like the contestants in Squid Game: Season 2 will have some all-new games to endure for their chance of winning 45.6 billion won. Throughout the teaser, we get brief flashes of various game rooms and challenges that are taking place, including once again an arena of sorts with a retractable roof hidden amongst the treetops of a remote island.
One of the flashes we see is a dirt or floor with two big rainbow circles on the ground, with contestants pouring into the game room from a single door. It’s way too early to tell, but some of the new games even appear to be inspired by games from the original Squid Game season like “Red Light, Green Light” and even the final challenge, aptly titled Squid Game.
Second seasons are always very hit or miss, but it at least looks like Squid Game: Season 2 is similar enough to Season 1 that fans wanting more should be happy. We’ll know more soon as Squid Game: Season 2 is set to release on Netflix on December 26.
