"Squid Game" season 2, which debuted on Netflix on Thursday, Dec. 26, has some record-breaking pressure to live up to — the first season has pulled in a whopping 2.2 billion hours and 265.2 million views since premiering in September 2021, making it the most-watched show in Netflix history.
Will the seven episodes of the second season and its cast of new competitors reach similarly stratospheric TV heights? “I do have a lot on my shoulders, but I’ll make sure it’s worth the wait,” series creator Hwang Dong-Hyuk assured Netflix in 2023.
