Tudum Live recap: Squid Game, Happy Gilmore, Wednesday and more
Netflix's Tudum Live event is running in L.A. tonight, beginning with a trailer for next month's Squid Game 3.
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It’s time, once again, for Netflix to a) promote its upcoming slate of big, zeitgeist-grabbing shows and movies, and, b), remind us that they still insist on spelling out the sound that plays at the start of all their originals in the most annoying way possible.
That’s right: It’s Tudum, this time arriving in the form of a live event running at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles. And while we here at The A.V. Club (and you at home) won’t get to feel the pure, adrenaline-pounding thrill of watching a bunch of trailers in a massive concert venue like those in attendance will, we can still simulate the basic experience by, uh, watching those same trailers. And then talking about them! (As an added benefit for you, you also don’t have to watch the comedy bits and musical numbers running between the good stuff; if you need to imagine a dance troupe dressed up like Squid Game guards, we can’t stop you, but it’s about as optional as content gets.)
Unsurprisingly, Netflix kicked off festivities with the next big “event” show on its schedule: the third season of Squid Game, arriving on June 27. Introduced by the show’s cast, the trailer for the series revealed things haven’t exactly gotten better for anybody in the aftermath of the bloody climax of the show’s second season last December: It’s more games, more misery, more thinly veiled allegories for how capitalism will try to murder you dead. (Also, Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun seems even more miserable this time around then he did last time.)
We’ll be updating our write-up of Tudum throughout the evening, while also breaking out some of the bigger trailers. (Keep an eye out for the first look at the new Knives Out film, Wake Up Dead Man, up next.)
Update: If you’re not watching Tudum Live—and really, even imagining that possibility sends chills down our spine—some wrestlers were on stage for a minute, doing a lot of One Piece jokes. Then, more excitingly—at least, for this writer, who actually found the series pretty charming—the cast of the live-action One Piece showed up to show off the CGI version of fan favorite character Chopper for the show’s next season, set to come out in 2026.