Social media posts from the verified "Squid Game" account revealed earlier this week that the first episode of season 2 will ominously be called "Bread and Lottery." The season 2 premiere will drop in one fell swoop with the rest of the new episodes on Dec.

Second seasons are hard. Great TV shows establish familiar rhythms and ensemble chemistry in their initial runs that then gets uprooted and can take time to reestablish. At least with Squid Game, the Netflix hit has the luxury of returning to a sadistic premise that structured its first batch of episodes.