Less than a month after its release, the second season of Squid Game has already become the third most successful series in Netflix history, beaten only by season one and the US comedy horror series Wednesday.
In the latest weekly charts (January 13 to 19), published on January 21, season two of the South Korean series collected another 13.2 million watches to overtake sci-fi series Stranger Things with 165.7 million views in just 3½ weeks.
The first season of the brutal South Korean drama about children’s games with a deadly twist was praised for its social criticism, tackling issues of social inequality, discrimination and the power of the elite.
Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk recently put its global success down to its relatability. This is “a story that people can identify with – no matter what language, culture, religion or ethnicity”, he said.
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