Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk and Emmy winner Lee Jung-jae are back for more death-defying games and nefariously masked villains as the series returns after a three-year absence.

Hwang Dong-hyuk’s global phenomenon — a violent survival thriller about desperate people forced to play deadly children’s games in hopes of winning life-changing cash — returns with seven episodes that feel more like a bridge to the third and final season than a distinct arc of their own.