Sudden spoiler on the cult series Squid Game: this is what the second season of Netflix’s flagship production will be about.
It should be noted a Netflix to be able to produce striking TV series, able to catalyze the attention of a large number of users. This happens in part because the average quality of the productions is high, but also and above all because those involved in market analysis do an excellent job. The TV series Wednesday, for example, has managed to modernize a concept and a product that had already lost appeal in the 90s, when the films about the Addams Family were produced.
The right choice was to bet only on Wednesday and to ensure that not his childhood but his adolescence was shown. The other apt choice was to represent the girl’s strangeness as diversity and her passion for the macabre and violence as a form of attention seeking. This was then combined with some fantasy elements typical of the successful productions of recent years (those who say that the school of outcasts does not look like Hogwarts are shamelessly lying) and success was practically certain.
If Wednesday’s success was studied at the table, that of Squid Game it was unexpected. Surely whoever chose to produce the series understood its potential and inserted some elements that could increase its appeal, but in this case there was no certainty of success. Firstly because it is a raw, violent and already seen story, secondly because the rock of language gap it was important. If it is true that the new generations are used to seeing subtitled language content, it is also true that no one – with rare exceptions – knows or is interested in knowing Korean.
Squid Game, the spoiler you don’t expect: what the second season will be about
Unexpected or not, the success of Squid Game was global and from the first days it was clear that Netflix would produce a second season. The author of the series explained that it took several years to write the episodes that we have already seen, therefore everyone’s fear is that the second season could arrive very far in time. In fact, rushing the writing could cause a drastic drop in quality and ruin a series ahead of time could potentially break every viewing record and diffusion.
Thanks to the lead actor of the first season, Lee Jung Jae, we know that filming for the second season will begin this summer and that according to forecasts it will take 10 months to complete the scenes. This means that the first episodes will hardly see the light on Netflix before the end of 2024. The actor also revealed in an interview with Ilgan Sports magazine that the second season will be bigger.
Finally he revealed what will be the main plot and who will be the protagonists of the second season: “As we all saw at the end of season 1, the main storyline of season 2 will be revengeand the key figure controlling how the games worked in season 1 was Lee Byung Hun, so it seems like the two of us will be the central figures in this next story.”
