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Note: there are no spoiler details for "Squid Game" season 2 in this post, just information Netflix has already made public ahead of the premiere. Still, if you've managed to avoid all of that and want to watch the new season completely fresh, maybe turn back now!

Netflix's massive South Korean hit series "Squid Game" is back for its second season, and fans should expect a lot of new faces. Only four characters from the first season will reappear in the second, meaning there will be a whole new mess of players to get to know, love, and grieve over the course of this season's games. Among them are a mother and son, Yong-sik (Yang Dong-geun) and Geum-ja (Kang Ae-sim), who end up playing the games together by accident after both characters independently sign up in order to pay off Yong-sik's significant gambling debts. 

By including a mother and son duo in "Squid Game,...

A Big Brother winner, a Survivor fan-favorite, and a star of Squid Game: The Challenge teamed up to help a Chicago animal shelter.

Austin Li Coon from Survivor 45, Jag Bains from Big Brother 25, and Trey Plutnicki from Squid Game: The Challenge Season 1 filmed the experience.

Jag won BB25, Austin was the runner-up on the recent season of Survivor, and Trey appeared on the reality show version of Squid Game with his mom.

It’s always fun to see reality TV stars giving back in this fashion, as it brings positive attention to places in need.

Jag, his brother, and two fellow Big Brother alums recently helped a family by purchasing many Christmas presents for their kids in Washington state.

Jag appears to enjoy giving back after winning $750,000 on the Summer 2023 season of Big Brother, and we are here for it.

Reality competition stars help out the dogs

“Giving back has always been important to me.

Chicago Med fans, we’ve got a fresh off the press preview for the new Season 9 Episode 3 episode titled What Happens in the Dark Always Comes to Light!

Find out everything you need to know about the What Happens in the Dark Always Comes to Light episode of Chicago Med, including a full preview, videos, release date, cast information and how to watch!

Chicago Med What Happens in the Dark Always Comes to Light Season 9 Episode 3 Preview

In this upcoming episode of “Chicago Med,” titled “What Happens in the Dark Always Comes to Light,” airing on NBC at 8:00 Pm on January 31, 2024, viewers can expect a compelling mix of medical drama and personal challenges. The episode centers around Ahmad, who, frustrated with an insurance company, decides to take matters into her own hands. However, her actions jeopardize Med’s negotiations and coincide with Marcel’s pivotal first day on the board.

In the final episode of Squid Game: The Challenge, the three finalists swapped their green tracksuits for button-downs and devoured a steak dinner on a triangular-shaped table, much like the dining hall featured in Netflix’s scripted drama Squid Game. Instead of a deadly knife fight, the two final contestants, Player 451 Phill Cain and Player 287 Mai Whelan, played the child’s game Rock, Paper, Scissors to determine the winner of the $4.56 million prize. Whelan, who bragged that the hand game was a personal favorite, was ultimately crowned.

Player 182 Tj Stukes,...

Squid Game: The Challenge season 1 contestants became household names after the show's premiere and some have had their lives changed. Despite complaints and legal issues, Netflix is moving ahead quickly with Squid Game: The Challenge season 2 and is currently casting for the next season. Based on the release pattern of the first season, Squid Game: The Challenge season 2 is likely to be filmed in early to mid-2024 and released in November 2024.

Squid Game: The Challenge has been an overnight sensation for Netflix, much like the series it was based on, leaving viewers wondering what information there is to know about Squid Game: The Challenge season 2. The reality TV competition series is based on the South Korean drama, Squid Game. While the reality TV version takes some of the most harrowing elements out of the game, Squid Game: The Challenge pushed its original 456 players to the brink and back in order...

Trey and LeAnn hoped for an advantage in their picnic baskets during Squid Game: The Challenge, but the game twisted their expectations. LeAnn always looked for clues in the game, but was unsure of what she was seeing, including the nature of the Marbles challenge. Trey and LeAnn's attempt to keep their mother-son relationship a secret during the competition failed, but they still tried to work together.

Squid Game: The Challenge has captivated Netflix viewers with its intense challenges and similarities to the South Korean smash hit, Squid Game, but there were game-changing twists players like Trey Plutnicki, player 301, were expecting to see. The series, which is based on the Netflix original from 2021, has become an overnight sensation and made some of the players competing into buzzworthy reality TV stars. Trey originally joined the game with his mother, LeAnn Wilcox Plutnicki, player 302, and the pair competed to the best of...

[Warning: The below contains Major spoilers for Squid Game: The Challenge, Episodes 1-9.] When it comes to the 456 players who entered Squid Game: The Challenge‘s competition, it was clear from the beginning that mother-son duo Leann Wilcox and Trey Plutnicki would be fan-favorites. The problem with fan favorites though? There’s always the chance they’ll be eliminated. Such was the case for Leann and Trey, who made it over halfway through the competition together, until they were presented with the game of marbles. Initially disguised as a picnic treat, the pair teamed up for their little smorgasbord, only to discover a pouch of marbles at the bottom. They, along with the remaining players, were escorted to a separate space to play a round of the game. Whoever won, or was determined to be the winner, would remain in the competition, while the other would be eliminated. (Credit: Pete Dadds/Netflix) Each played a fair game,...

Chicago – Theatrical satires of the Star Wars Universe are like the number of TV series the universe has wrought … too many to figure out if anything is worthwhile. But “Trade Federation” (subtitled “Or Let’s Explore Globalization Through the Star Wars Prequels”), presented by Otherworld Theatre in Wrigleyville Chicago, gets it right on. By inculcating the dreary prequel trilogy (1999-2005) with geopolitics, it meshes the love of Star Wars with a smart new generation of artists who use it for inspiration and evolution. It has a short run through May 13th, click Trade Fed for tickets and dates.

Play Rating: 4.5/5.0

The setting is within the prequel universe, with familiar characters like Queen Amildala (Gabby Seed), young Obi-Wan Kenobi (Hunter Johnson), Qui-Gon Jinn (Calvin Chervinko) and even Jar Jar Banks (Christian Torres) populating the stage, but with a twist. Interrupting their revelry is a separate reality pitch of their story, with...