Game on.
“Squid Game” Season 2 is now streaming, and some viewers are taking issue with the sophomore installment of the hit bloody Korean Netflix show.
“The second season of Squid Game is a thorough letdown,” wrote a critic for The Hollywood Reporter, adding, “Season two simply doesn’t work.”
Collider‘s similarly unenthusiastic review read, “You can see the plot twists coming a mile away even when a new game is introduced and if you don’t, the show flashes lights in your face to make sure you’re prepared for the incoming twist. It often feels like the show is afraid its audience might not understand what is going on, so everything has to be spelled out.”
They added, “By the time the season reaches its ending, it feels like a lot of time has been wasted on repetition.”
“Just finished season 2 THAT S–T WAS TERRIBLE IM CRYING,” one viewer wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
They added, “all of the elements from the first season GONE there’s no emotion, substance, and all the games had no thrill or stakes in it #SquidGame2.”
“SquidGame2 is so underwhelming likeee WHAT WAS EVEN THAT its lowkey so messy and all over the place,” another viewer complained on X, while a third said, “I didn’t wait 2 years for this.”
Viewers also complained that there were “too many characters” who weren’t introduced properly.
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The Guardian gave it a similarly tepid review, writing, “It struggles to find its purpose…What a shame it takes so long to get there though.”
The Telegraph compared the second season to “a difficult second album from an overnight pop star.”
The sleeper hit series first premiered in 2021 and became the most-watched show in Netflix history, with over 2 billion hours viewed.
Season 1 of the survival horror thriller was about Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and other desperate cash-strapped people who compete in a secret contest of games, trying to win a prize of over $30 million while fighting to survive the brutality.
“Squid Game” is now streaming on Netflix.