Player 456 is back for revenge in the Squid Game S2 trailer

The Korean Series 2021 Squid game was a smash hit for Netflix, garnering 1.65 billion viewing hours in its first four weeks and securing 14 Emmy nominations. Fans have been clamoring for a second season ever since, and this year we’re finally getting it for Christmas. Netflix just released the official trailer.

(Spoilers for S1 below.)

The first season followed Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-Jae, seen earlier this year in The Acolyte), a hapless player with little to lose when he agrees to play Children’s Playgrounds against 455 other players for money. The twist? If you lose a game, you die. If you cheat, you die. And if you win, you might die too.

“The grotesque spectacle of Squid game That’s where the biggest appeal lies, but it resonates because Gi-hun and the rest of the game’s participants are so likable,” Andrew Cunningham, senior technology reporter at Ars, wrote in our 2021 year-end TV roundup. “From the Society alienated and each other, driven by guilt or shame, pride or despair, each of the players we get to know is inescapable humanfor what reason Squid game is more than just a bloody sideshow.

In the S1 finale, Gi-hun competed against his finalist and childhood friend Cho Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo) in the titular “Squid Game.” He won their fight but refused to kill his friend and begged Sang-woo to stop the game, citing a special clause in their contract that allowed them to stay alive but no prize money to get. Instead, Sang-woo stabbed himself in the neck and asked Gi-hun to take care of his mother. Wracked with guilt, Gi-hun was about to fly to America to live with his daughter when he spotted the matchmaker trying to lure another desperate person. He didn’t get on the plane and instead decided to get back into the game and destroy it from the inside.