Netflix followers left ‘dissatisfied’ by Squid Game 2 as they model the long-awaited new season ‘overhyped’ and slam ‘boring’ storylines

When the hotly-anticipated season of Squid Game came out on Thursday after three years of waiting – Netflix fans couldn’t help but have high expectations.

Yet, just a few hours after its release, viewers flooded X with disappointed comments – complaining they ‘didn’t wait three years for this’.

Fans unanimously branded it ‘boring’ and ‘predictable’ – while also moaning it lacked the show’s trademark nail-biting plot.

Among the long list of complaints, people on the social media platform also raised there were barely any ‘new’ games, with some begging producers: ‘Don’t come back for a new season’.

The bitter commentary was inevitably all over X – formerly Twitter – where viewers wrote: ‘#SquidGame2 is so underwhelming likeee WHAT WAS EVEN THAT its lowkey so messy and all over the place too many characters to the point idk who to focus on anymore + didnt even introduce them properly and the ending is S**T I didnt wait 2 years for this….’.

‘just finished season 2 THAT SHIT WAS TERRIBLE IM CRYING 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’; 

‘season 2 of squid game lowkey boring like idgaf about the storyline just show me the games’;

‘#SquidGame2 season 2 is so boring so far’;

‘Done watching #SquidGame2 It is so boring. What a waste, the only good part was the salesman lmao’;

‘just finished watching #SquidGame2 and to sum it up everything was really predictable, no plot twists or anything messy writing, characters and sigh… i expected more after waiting for so long and now we prob have to wait another 3 years? hmm’;

‘#SquidGame2 super boring season 2’;

‘Squid Game S2: – Very slow and boring most of the time – Unlikable characters – Lots of useless moments – Not enough game moments – The plot barely moves at all Very disappointed’;

‘They made us wait for this boring season no need to return for another one #SquidGame2’;

‘#SquidGame2 6.5 of 10 Games were lackluster minus the final one in my opinion. Deaths and games weren’t as creative as the first season still enjoyed it but huge downgrade from first season in my opinion’; 

‘SPOILER squid game 2 was a 6 or 7/10 imo. felt to dragged on. could have been 5 or 6 episodes instead of 7. there was only 2 new games which i am mad about and feel like there could have been alot more. I wish purple guy suffered a worse death’;

‘it’s 4am and I just binged #SquidGame2. Games were quite interesting & tense at times but for the most part, it’s a weak sequel with little to no development and the stupidest character motivations. Decisions made absolutely no sense and finale was a mess’;

‘disappointed with #SquidGame2 it was just so predictable and pointless the whole season felt like a filler episode. s3 better come out fast’;

‘#SquidGame2 is decent, but fails to capture the scale and imagination of it’s first season. Less about the unique games and tension, this season focuses on the character drama, scaling back on the unpredictability of its predecessor’;

‘Aside from the fact that it’s NOT FINISHED, #SquidGame 2 is VERY underwhelming. Its characters are flat, the script is trying way too hard to be “modern”, and the emotional gravity from season one is nonexistent because I just didn’t care about any of these new characters’;

‘Man… #SquidGame2 is reeaaally bad The first episode is incredible, but the remaining 6 feel like they were made by a completely different director, with an entirely new, creatively bankrupt tone. It is almost unrecognizable from the previous season. What a disappointment’.

The first trailer for Squid Game’s long-awaited second season first dropped back in October. 

The trailer began with a new set of players being recruited for the twisted game before the winner of the last Squid Game, Seong Gi-hun, played by Lee Jung-jae, appeared on screen.

In the back of a car, Gi-hun sat face to face with a gold speaker shaped like a pig as it eerily asked him: ‘Player 456. What do you want from me?’

To which he replied: ‘Put me back in the game.’ 

As the new game commenced, viewers were introduced to the fresh faces of excited new players which bare a stark difference to the worn and vengeful face of Gi-hun.

One contestant asked Gi-hun why he came back and he told him: ‘I’m trying to put an end to this game.’

He appeared to take on a leadership role in the game and tells the other players: ‘Those who created this game… we should fight them.’

Some fans have noticed that a character who was understood to have died in season one has also returned.

Jun-ho, played by Wi Ha-jun, was the determined police officer hell-bent on finding his brother, In-ho, and exposing the games to the authorities.

He was presumed dead in episode eight when he fell off a cliff after being shot in the shoulder by his brother when he discovered that his missing sibling was in fact the game’s masked Front Man.

However, Jun-ho can be seen in the trailer, crouched down with his a gun at the ready in a forest with other officers.