Squid Game Wins Breakthrough Series At Gotham Awards 2021

Squid Game director and cast (screenshot)

JAKARTA - The Squid Game series won an award for the Breakthrough Series category at the 2021 Gotham Awards event on Monday, November 29.

Squid Game competes with The Good Lord Bird, It's A Sin, Small Axe, The Underground Railroad, and The White Lotus.

Squid Game director Hwang Dong Hyuk received the award in person. "When I wrote the script 12 years ago in 2009, I did my best but no one liked the story," he told Deadline on Tuesday, November 30.

“They said it was too loud, it didn't make sense, it was weird. Less than 12 days after its release, the series became the number one television show on the planet,” continued Dong Hyuk.

In addition, the main actor, actor Lee Jung Jae, was also nominated for Outstanding Performance in a New Series. However, this award was won by Ethan Hawke in The Good Lord Bird and Thuso Mbedu in The Underground Railroad.

Lee Jung Jae and Jung Ho Yeon were seen attending the 2021 Gotham Awards with Hwang Dong Hyuk.

Squid Game is a drama that tells the story of a game that 456 people participate in to win 45.6 million won. The worldwide popularity made Hwang Dong Hyuk start thinking about the continuation of the story.

Until now, he is reluctant to tell the premise of the story because everything is still in the planning process.