Squid Game 2 named Best Foreign Language Series at Critics Choice
Netflix's Korean original series "Squid Game" Season 2 has won the Best Foreign Language Series award at the 30th annual Critics Choice Awards, its website showed Sunday, Yonhap reports.
The Critics Choice Association announced the winner in Los Angeles on Friday (local time), marking the second time the popular series has won the award after it previously took home the honor in 2022 for its first season.
Its lead Lee Jung-jae won Best Actor in a Drama Series in 2022.
The second season follows protagonist Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), who abandons his plans to leave for the United States after winning the lethal competition. Instead, he stays in Korea with a resolute mission to end the deadly games once and for all.
Season 2 concludes with a cliffhanger, setting the stage for the complete story of "Squid Game" to unfold in Season 3, slated for release later this year.
As reported earlier "Squid Game" amassed 480 mln viewing hours, dominating Netflix rankings during its release week.
