Well, this progression is definitely a bit meta. Squid Game author Hwang Dong-hyuk, speaking with Deadline, revealed that he is directing a new comedy titled The Best Show on the Planet.
The concept? It’s a satire that reflects his pleasure of being “pushed into the spotlight” after Squid Game Season 1 exploded on Netflix and changed his life by becoming one of the most-watched series in the history of television entertainment (Netflix’s latest figures, 2. 26 billion hours watched).
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This, of course, would add to its existing progression from Squid Game Season 2, something it never intended to do after taking nine years to sell Squid Game, but that, of course, is now mandatory given the functionality of the first series. At least mandatory in this industry, when Netflix released a check from the length of the sun to produce more.
Chances are, the tension process to expand Squid Game 2 is also part of The Best Show on the Planet, since how are you likely to stick with Season 1 with such high expectations?
In this same article, we also won an update for Squid Game season 2, where it says it points to a Halloween 2024 release, which is later than the proposed timeline in 2023/early 2024 that was in the news a few days before that. . . That would be a little over 3 years after the original aired, a hole in the broadcast era, but it’s not unexpected for this specific show. Deadline reconfirms that two of the only surviving characters, Gi-Hun and the Frontman, are returning for Season 2.
While I’m looking forward to seeing a season of Squid Game, I’m probably even more curious to see The Best Show on the Planet, as it turns out to be precisely the kind of thing Hwang Dong-hyuk would be wonderful at. At this rate, who knows, maybe we’ll see it first.
Netflix has continued to invest in Korean and global series in general in the wake of Squid Game’s good fortune, but hing, Money Heist, Bridgerton, The Witcher, everything it has produced since the fall of 2021 has even come close to matching this. kind of crazy audience. I’m sure anything else has even reached half.
Without pressure, Hwang Dong-hyuk, I’m season 2 will be great.
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