Squid Game season 2 confirmed as Netflix teases expanded universe

Squid Game season two confirmed as Netflix teases expanded universe

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Information technology looks like many more competitors will have to endure the Squid Game ordeal — because Netflix has not only confirmed a second season but as well teased big future plans for the hit Korean show.

Ted Sarandos, the visitor's co-CEO and chief content officer, effectively guaranteed a new series during Netflix'south fourth-quarter earnings call for investors and analysts. "Absolutely," Sarandos is quoted (via The Verge) every bit maxim in response to a question near whether Squid Game would go a second season. He then followed upwardly with the intriguing statement that "The Squid Game universe has just begun."

The first chip isn't a big surprise, as Squid Game's creator and author, Hwang Dong-hyuk, had already revealed that he was working on a second season. But what Sarandos' second statement adds is the proposition that Netflix, understandably, intends to continue the series across that bespeak. You could fifty-fifty read his words as implying that Netflix could aggrandize the telescopic of Squid Game content into entirely new areas.

If yous've watched the Squid Game ending, yous'll know at that place are multiple angles from which to examine the games themselves and the lives of its oppressed contestants, beyond the story of season 1's principal character, Seong Gi-hun. Perhaps nosotros'll end upward with a huge expanded universe in the manner of Star Wars or the Marvel Cinematic Universe shows on Disney Plus. Perhaps we'll end up with the Squid Game motion picture that Hwang said he originally wanted to make. Or maybe we could see Netflix go across streaming content with Squid Game: The Video Game. Information technology has just launched Netflix Gaming, after all.

Not that any of this is guaranteed long-term, of course. The list of Netflix canceled shows is a long one, so although Squid Game S1 was the most popular prove the service has ever produced, the pressure to maintain that level of viewership will be high. If it tin can do so, though, the Squid Game expanded universe Sarandos hinted at could exist on the manner.

As for what to watch until Squid Game season 2 arrives, we think Alice in Borderland may just what you demand to scratch that Squid Game-like crawling.

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