‘Squid Game’ fans “can’t wait for new season but ask Netflix to “please stop after this”

The new season arrives on Netflix next month

Fans of the Netflix smash-hit show Squid Game have said they “can’t wait” for the new season, but have asked programme makers to “stop” after season two.

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The new trailer for the highly anticipated second season of the new show arrived yesterday (October 31), over three years after its first season. The dystopian series follows a competition in which contestants play a series of children’s games hoping to win a life changing cash prize. However, those who fail to complete the tasks are killed.

In the latest trailer, a new set of contestants are ushered into the dorms as the games begin. Hoping to put an end to them, Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) returns and tries to save the lives of the new contestants by urging them to leave. However, many of the contestants refuse to heed his advice, and demand for the games to continue in hopes of winning the money.

Fans have been reacting to the new trailer online, saying they “can’t wait” for it to arrive while also pleading with Netflix to end the show after season two even though back in August, Netflix confirmed that the series will return for its third and final season in 2025.

You can see some of the reaction here:

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Squid Game season two arrives exclusively on Netflix on December 26.

The new season follows Gi-hun, the winner from season one, as he becomes “determined to find the people behind the game and put an end to their vicious sport”. After using his prize money to hunt down those behind the game, he decides to re-enter the games in hopes of ending them.

Season two of Squid Game will also introduce a massive cast of new characters as another set of contestants enter the games. Newcomers include idol-actors like T.O.P, Jo Yu-ri and Yim Si-wan (Strangers from Hell), Kang Ha-neul (Forgotten), Park Gyu-young (Celebrity) and more.

In other news, David Fincher is reportedly set to develop an English-language version of Squid Game for Netflix.

The Fight Club and Gone Girl director has been rumoured to be involved with the dystopian show for several months, with Deadline recently reporting that he is “likely” to be committing his time to its English language incarnation in 2025.

This would represent the first scripted spin-off from Hwang Dong-hyuk’s South Korean original, which debuted on the streaming service in 2021. The show instantly became a pop culture juggernaut and even spawned a reality competition in 2023.