After beginning where the last season left off, a year after the games ended, Season 2 then jumps two years into the future and follows Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), aka Player 456

Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk and Emmy winner Lee Jung-jae are back for more death-defying games and nefariously masked villains as the series returns after a three-year absence.

In the three years since Squid Game became Netflix’s biggest property, it’s been easy to forget just why it was so popular to begin with. The unflinching story of class conflict that combined iconic visuals,