Quips & Musings Corner By Kai Leakes (Movie & TV Reviews): Squid Game 2 [🏆Fave 2024 K-Drama Watch]

Squid Game 2 'The Second Slap Across Our Faces Season' Watch/Quip:[Watch on Nettyflix] 🏆Fave 2024 K-Drama Watch

SUMMINATION: Do you really need one? If you saw the first season...you already know! [Read my past review of Season 1]

QUIP: OOOWEEEE, and we're back ya'll, ready to dive back in with my favorite chaotic problematic K-drama Squid Game or what I lovingly call...' Squid Games' because a. this is season 2 and b. I's Black. 🤣Those of us who became invested in this dark social commentary drama of a madness of a show will be happy that we open with a recap (much needed after all these years) and we pick right back up from where we left off with our bright Koolaid Red haired hero [aka also our fave problematic Jedi, actor: Lee Jung-jae] at the airport. 

It's there that we move into what I call 'Phase II' of getting to know the world of Squid Game. The first season was about the intro and the stakes. This season was more so about preparing us for the revenge and if we even get to manage any, as well as, a secondary intro into a new crew, the BTS stories of our famed pink jump suit-wearing handlers and our beloved gentlethug of a Tom Ford suit-wearing 'The Salesman'.  Something that we've all wondered...'who TF they were and his background', last season.

[Note: His part (Our Salesman played by Gong Yoo) is...O.M.G. BRILLIANTLY INTENSE!]

I truly enjoyed the start of this series, but I didn't. The joys came from coming back to this world with its games and preparing myself for if we get some revenge or more information about the intricate machinations of this harrowing game and its parsonage. The dislike came from...in all of that which was the point, it was all over the place and this season was exceedingly short. This made it fall short of its previous season. Due to our first season's issues with actors, I could see how our creator had to do a slight pivot from probably how he intended some character situations to go. Or maybe he didn't.

It could be due to Nettyflix rushing him (something I can understand). Either way, this felt like it was missing more of the enjoyable character emotional and social connections from the first season. I also feel that our creator plugged characters in this season (just to cast his fave K-actors that are popular and a few that need work after coming out of scandals) and did not give us the more emotional connective story about them as he did the first season, because as with one new character, they felt like an insert. The actor playing the character, to me, is not playing true to that type of character's life (I've seen done better in other K-dramas: D.P. season 2...go watch it) and how this character is played is almost coming off as an insulting joke. That is a super negative.

Moving on, I'm still very invested in seeing what secrets this series will continue to reveal and how it will ultimately end next year in 2025. I was also happy to see my three favorite K-boos again. So, go check it out, and let us all talk. Oh, and pay attention to the blink, and you'll miss it end credit.

RATING: 4/5 Game Dices🎲🎲🎲🎲