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[agentnico]

Squid Game - season 2 (2024) review

Red light…. Green light…

Plot: Set three years after the first season, the story focuses on Seong Gi-hun's life after winning the Squid Game, giving up on going to the United States and returning to the games with a new resolution in mind. He once again dives into the mysterious survival game, starting another life-or-death game with new participants gathered to win the prize of ₩45.6 billion.

I’ve read a few audience responses complaining about how this season has a very slow start and doesn’t get going until episode 3/4 when we get back into the Squid Game arena. However I beg to differ, as from the get-go thus season kicks off on a high with Gi-hun hunting for clues to reach the Front Man, and the whole section about searching for the Salesman was honestly great. The sequence involving Rock, Paper, Scissors and Russian Roulette was one of the most tense parts of the entire season. That is by the way an interesting factor of this second outing - the shock value is no longer there…

We see it every day on the front page of all our social feeds. Content that triggers, disgusts, and prods our emotions into a watch, share, or discussion. Content that should never have made it to our eyeballs, but garnered more likes than that Capybara eating a watermelon. The first Squid Game was that level of a phenomenon, garnering a huge viewership and online discourse and becoming one of Netflix’s most watched shows. Maybe even the most watched show… or is that still Stranger Things? No clue, nor am I bothered to Google. Nevertheless, Squid Game’s slap to the face violence was such a dopamine rush for content hungry viewers, and the incorporations of something so innocent as children’s games with said violence was a unique and original idea. Well, not even that original if you consider Battle Royale. But truly Squid Game was a fun watch. The second season offers more of the same, only with a higher budget, better writing and maybe a tad too much exposition to set up the already-filmed third season.

Squid Game 2’s biggest fault is that essentially it’s the same thing all over again. Yes there are new characters, different dynamics and some new games to ruin your collective childhoods, but it is the same thing again. Was good to see Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-Jae) more confident and rebellious this time around compared to the last season, and the shadowy Front Man (Lee-Byung Hun) gets more of a backstory and screen time and honestly it’s a gift, as he manages to be both extremely charming yet sinister.

One of the preoccupations of Squid Game is human nature. As a species, are we fundamentally decent and magnanimous, or are we craven, greedy and selfish? The Salesman reminds us of the theme early on, when he takes two bags of shopping to a park mostly populated by the homeless and others down on their luck. He offers them a choice: bread, or a scratch card? The certainty of a meal, or the possibility of cash? Most take the risk, not knowing the outcome. Gi-hun already knows the outcome of the games, or at least he thinks he does. But whether he can persuade the others what it actually means to play when the odds are stacked against you is another story. But let’s be honest, we’re just out to see some bloody and connect to characters that will shortly get killed off in gruesome fashion. On that stance this season delivers. Even though it’s really half a season, and the upcoming third season is more so a season 2.5.

Overall score: 7/10

[khuantru]

This show is such a treat to watch.

a fun awkward family, each member possessing special abilities.

Only 6 episodes & the ending opens up for a season 2

add it to your watch list

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Sterling K. Brown and James Marsden on the Grief of ‘Paradise’

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