![]() Though details on Season 2 remain scarce, Hwang has said that it would follow - as the closing scene of the first finale suggested - Seong Gi-hun and his investigation of those behind the deadly, titular tournament. Season 1 of Squid Game, series creator Hwang has said, was conceived as “an allegory or fable about modern capitalist society, something that depicts an extreme competition, somewhat like the extreme competition of life.” The show also scored Emmys for guest actress Lee Yoo-mi (as Sae-byeok’s friend Ji-Yeong), production design, stunt performance and visual effects.Īdditionally, Season 1 earned three Screen Actors Guild Awards - including for Lee Jung-jae as well as Hoyeoin (who played Sae-byeok) - and a Golden Globe for Oh Yeong-su (as Oh Il-nam). Lee Jung-jae wound up winning for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama - the first actor in a non-English series to be crowned in that category - and series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk grabbed gold for best director for a drama. Among those nods, it was the first foreign language series to make the short list for Outstanding Drama. Squid Game Season 1 racked up 14 total Emmy Award nominations. streaming ranking for multiple weeks, at times amassing more than 3 billion minutes viewed across its nine episodes. Squid Game Season 1 also topped the all-encompassing Nielsen U.S. Stranger Things Season 4 (140.7 million “views”), Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (115.6 million views) and Bridgerton Season 1 (113.3 million) round out Netflix’s overall Top 5. ![]() 2 on the overall chart while reigning as Netflix’s most popular English TV title, with 252.1 million “views” of its 6.8-hour first season. the number of hours viewed divided by the total run time). Squid Game Season 1 has for a while now stood as Netflix’s most popular title overall, with 265 million “views” (i.e. ![]() Ultimately emerging from the ordeal as the sole survivor, Gi-hun for a whole year barely touched his 45.6 billion won payday, until he was invited to a mysterious rendezvous with, it turned out, Oh Il-nam aka “The Old Man,” who was believed to have been executed after Round 4 but in fact was alive and had been running this illicit enterprise all along! Not long into their reunion, though, the Old Man succumbed to a brain tumor that had ailed him. What’s the status of the awaited Season 2, and what all do we know about it?įirst, to succinctly recap: Across nine episodes, Squid Game Season 1 followed Seong Gi-hun (played by Emmy winner Lee Jung-jae), a gambling-prone divorcé as he and 455 other downtrodden strangers were knocked out with gas and whisked away to a secret island complex, to compete in a series of children’s games all given decidedly deadly spins. ![]() 17, 2023, it will have been two full years since the Squid Game phenomenon began sweeping this nation (and many others). ![]()
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