“Squid Game” season 2, the games are weak – Liberation

The sequel to Netflix's biggest success offers neither dizziness nor real novelty in its first episodes, where the winner of the deadly competition returns to sabotage it from the inside.

«Same player, sho(o)t again.» Season 2 of Squid Game arrives in France with its procession of marketing bait in advance (beetroot-colored sandwiches like the outfits of its security guards at Burger King, part of “Un, deux, trois, soleil” for influencers on the Champs-Elysées at the beginning of December, and type «Squid Game» in Google to see…), tentacles of the global success of this intellectual property which contradicts its anti-capitalist discourse.

At the same time, we only deserve what we praise to the skies and if this deadly gymkhana repainted in the colors of regression (children's games in the setting of a giant crèche on acid) has struck people's minds and given back the fashionable green joggers, so be it. Its creator, screenwriter and director (of all episodes) Hwang Dong-hyeok had not at all anticipated his success and had left, at the end of season 1, the winner of the jackpot (around 30 million euros) and winner Seong Gi-hun (aka “Player 456”) hanging out at the airport, his hair dyed red on impulse, brooding about his revenge against the competition organizers who decimated his friends. A complicated color to assume over seven episodes