All we could assume before Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s The Platform 2 hit Netflix’s platform was that it’d have that cursed setting in common with the original. But despite having brand new protagonists and antagonists in the form of new inmates in the Pit, The Platform 2 is connected to The Platform in more ways than one. One of the most gnawing questions that The Platform 2 left the viewers to stew in is about the curious case of the kids. And believe it or not, the kids connect the stories of the two films on both a fundamental and a tangible level.

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The Platform 2 started with the kids playing on a strange pyramid-like structure made of stairs and slides. They seemed peaceful and content even though there was not necessarily a meaning or purpose to their game. Much like that, the people in the Pit...