The upcoming season of Squid Game is outwardly fairly nice.
The Golden Globes nominated the Netflix drama’s upcoming second season for finest drama on Monday morning. The Korean survival thriller was nominated alongside Peacock’s The Day of the Jackal, Netflix’s The Diplomat, Prime Video’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith, FX/Hulu’s Shogun and Apple TV+’s Slow Horses.
The distinction, after all, is that the others have already aired, whereas Squid Game season two has been stored tightly beneath wraps from viewers forward of its Dec. 26 launch — simply not from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
The Golden Globes nominating initiatives that haven’t but been publicly launched but isn’t uncommon (the Jamie Foxx stand-up particular What Had Happened Was, which releases on Tuesday, can also be nominated). But the Globes nominating a title not but been launched largely happens with motion pictures somewhat than TV collection.
To be eligible for an award for the 2025 Golden Globes, a present should have premiered within the 2024 calendar yr, and have submitted episodes to the voting physique by Nov. 4. Traditionally, not many TV collection are likely to launch in late December. But Squid Game has a built-in viewers and Netflix typically releases eagerly anticipated new seasons round holidays. Squid Game‘s seven-episode second season additionally launches with a lead-in of the debut of Netflix’s long-awaited NFL video games, which stream stay on Christmas Day.
In The Hollywood Reporter‘s unique cowl story, Squid Game creator Hwang Dong–hyuk says of a serious motif for season two of his worldwide hit collection will probably be exploring the theme of taking sides.
“I used to be impressed by the sheer incontrovertible fact that in every single place you flip, individuals are drawing traces, whether or not it’s by technology, class, faith, ethnicity or race,” Hwang stated. “I needed to inform a narrative about how the totally different decisions we make create conflicts amongst us and to open up a dialog about whether or not there’s a solution to transfer towards a path the place we are able to overcome these divisions.”
Here’s the season two trailer under, and the total record of Globes nominees.
