The 2021 Korean series Squid Game was an enormous hit for Netflix, acquiring 1.65 billion watching hours in its very first 4 weeks and snagging 14 Emmy elections. Fans have actually been yearning for a 2nd season since, and we’re lastly getting it this year for Christmas. Netflix simply launched the main trailer.

(Spoilers for S1 listed below.)

The very first season followed Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-Jae, seen previously this year in The Acolytea down-on-his-luck bettor who has little bit left to lose when he accepts play kids’s play area video games versus 455 other gamers for cash. The twist? If you lose a video game, you pass away. If you cheat, you pass away. And if you win, you may likewise pass away.

“The grotesque spectacle of Squid Game is where it gets most of its appeal, but it resonates because of how relatable Gi-hun and the rest of the game’s contestants are,” Ars Senior Technology Reporter Andrew Cunningham composed in our 2021 year-end television roundup. “Alienated from society and each other, driven by regret or embarassment or pride or desperation, each of the gamers we are familiar with is inescapably humanwhich is whySquid Game is more than simply a gory sideshow.

In the S1 ending, Gi-hun taken on versus fellow finalist and youth pal Cho Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo) in the titular “squid game.” He won their battle however declined to eliminate his pal, pleading Sang-woo to stop the video game by conjuring up an unique stipulation in their agreement whereby they get to live– however do not get the cash prize. Sang-woo rather stabbed himself in the neck and asked Gi-hun to look after his mom. Wrecked with regret, Gi-hun will fly to America to cope with his child when he identified the video game employer attempting to attract another desperate individual. He didn’t get on the aircraft, choosing rather to attempt and return to the video game and take it below the within.