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Squid Game is ready for 2025 with a second season that its creators worry might be too much for viewers
The second season of Netflix's hit show is "much crueller" than the first, according to the series showrunner
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If anyone was hoping that the second season of Netflix’s phenomenon Squid Game was going to take things a little bit easier than the first, I have some bad news. Series showrunner Hwang Dong-hyuk is well aware that the real world has not gotten any better since the debut of the show back in 2021, and he’s made sure that the second season is going to reflect that… even if that might be a little bit too much for some viewers.
“It’s not getting better out there — it’s getting worse […] Worse climate change, more wars, more people dying. Compare the world [in 2021] and now — our lives are not improving,” Hwang told Empire, adding that he thinks that “what we’ve created on Season 2 is a deeper, more advanced story” than the first.
That comes at a small cost, he will admit.
“I even had some concerns because the story told in the second season is much crueller, scarier and more gruesome than the first,” Hang continued. “Honestly, I thought to myself... ‘Is this too much for people to handle?’”
That sounds like a challenge — and not in the sense of the reality show spin-off that was disturbingly easy to get sucked into. We’ll all find out if we’re up to it when the second season debuts on Netflix December 26.
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