Ishika Banerjee: Really fun article!!I love Squid Game 2 for expanding from the 1st season but I also understand people's frustration towards the issues.

Ishika Banerjee: I agree that there's definitely a factor missing, but I looked at it as mostly positive. I think repetitive commentary on capitalism and greed has become entirely oversaturated and was already done in the first season. If they had tried to reiterate that, the show would seem a bit lazy, at least for me. I think this season takes a different route, exploring wealth through social, gender, family, and friendship dynamics, which was more intriguing and interesting to me—especially as an expansion on their previous season as opposed to repetitively exploring the same ideas in a surface-level way. I mean, look at Gi-Hun, who is a starkly different character than he was in season 1 and a person who has to navigate the games and the new people he meets in an entirely different way. I loved the last season for introducing the complexities of wealth disparity, and I love this season for taking it a bit further in a different direction. Thanks for sharing your article! I liked it :)