Golden Globes: How ‘Squid Game’ Got Nominated for a Season You Haven’t Seen Yet
The upcoming season of Squid Game is apparently pretty great.
The Golden Globes nominated the Netflix drama’s upcoming second season for best drama on Monday morning. The Korean survival thriller was nominated alongside Peacock’s The Day of the Jackal, Netflix’s The Diplomat, Prime Video’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith, FX/Hulu’s Shogun and Apple TV+’s Slow Horses.
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The difference, of course, is that the others have already aired, while Squid Game season two has been kept tightly under wraps from viewers ahead of its Dec. 26 release — just not from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
The Golden Globes nominating projects that haven’t yet been publicly released yet isn’t unusual (the Jamie Foxx stand-up special What Had Happened Was, which releases on Tuesday, is also nominated). But the Globes nominating a title not yet been released mostly occurs with movies rather than TV series.
To be eligible for an award for the 2025 Golden Globes, a show must have premiered in the 2024 calendar year, and have submitted episodes to the voting body by Nov. 4. Traditionally, not many TV series tend to launch in late December. But Squid Game has a built-in audience and Netflix often releases eagerly anticipated new seasons around holidays. Squid Game‘s seven-episode second season also launches with a lead-in of the debut of Netflix’s long-awaited NFL games, which stream live on Christmas Day.
In The Hollywood Reporter‘s exclusive cover story, Squid Game creator Hwang Dong–hyuk says of a major motif for season two of his international hit series will be exploring the theme of taking sides.
“I was inspired by the sheer fact that everywhere you turn, people are drawing lines, whether it’s by generation, class, religion, ethnicity or race,” Hwang said. “I wanted to tell a story about how the different choices we make create conflicts among us and to open up a conversation about whether there is a way to move toward a direction where we can overcome these divisions.”
Here’s the season two trailer below, and the full list of Globes nominees.
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