Enormously famous Korean TV program Squid Game will “totally” get a subsequent season, as per Netflix’s Ted Sarandos. The co-CEO affirmed the arrangement during the organization’s Q421 income bring in January, indicating that not exclusively will the show get a subsequent season, however that Netflix may likewise be peering toward a more extensive “universe” based around the series.
Squid Game universe inbound?
Netflix has distributed its 2021 profit, taking note of as a component of it that Squid Game was its top show last year, joining its two record-breaking best motion pictures Don’t Look Up and Red Notice. However the income report doesn’t expound on the organization’s tentative arrangement for the show, Sarandos affirmed during a profit call that Squid Game season two is ready to go (through Netflix).
At the point when found out if a subsequent season was arranged, Sarandos answered, “Totally. The Squid Game universe has quite recently started.” That concise assertion presents a thrilling chance: Netflix might be viewing at Squid Game as in excess of a disengaged hit and on second thought as a legitimate universe whereupon to assemble future substance.
Netflix is no more abnormal to recounting to stories generally set inside similar fictitious universes. In November 2018, for instance, the organization uncovered designs to send off various shows generally set in the Roald Dahl universe. Simiarly, Netflix designated the famous Resident Evil universe as the establishment for recounting new stories. Past that, Netflix has effectively profited by Squid Game’s notoriety with a line of product.
Tragically, Netflix is staying silent with regards to its greater plans right now. We don’t yet have any idea when Squid Game season two will show up and how its “universe” might be utilized going ahead.
Setting a new record
Viral hits, in spite of organizations’ earnest attempts to reproduce them, will quite often go back and forth abruptly, jumping up apparently out of the blue to blow away the opposition. We’ve seen numerous Netflix Originals acquire this distinction throughout the long term, including hits like Stranger Things, and September 2021 presented to us the most recent illustration of this peculiarity.
Inside its first two or three months on the streaming stage, Squid Game soar to notoriety all over the planet, rapidly turning into Netflix’s best unique ever. However the organization will in general stay quiet about its show and film information, it breaks that pattern when there’s a valid justification to boast.
That is the reason we realize that Squid Game rounded up 1.65 billion hours of spilling inside its initial experience on Netflix, where it appeared on September 17, 2021. In correlation, as per Variety, the second-greatest show on the stage, Bridgerton, pulled in 625 million hours of gushing over the equivalent time frame.