We have been waiting for the second season of Squid Game for three years, but Netflix has been very vague with its announcements so far. Even the official extension took an eternity, although it quickly became clear that the South Korean survival thriller is one of the biggest hits of the streaming service is.
With over 2.2 billion hours watched, Squid Game is the most successful series Netflix has ever released, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Now the start date of the new episodes has finally been set: As a short teaser video shows, the second season of Squid Game will start on December 26, 2024 on Netflix – and that’s not all.
Netflix reveals: Squid Game Season 2 will arrive in December 2024 and Season 3 will end the series in 2025
Not only does the teaser video reveal the start of the second season, but at the very end there is a text panel that Arrival of Season 3 for 2025 confirmed on Netflix. The wait for the continuation of the story is much shorter this time. But this also means that the end of the series is certain. From the “final season” is the talk.
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Even though Squid Game exactly in the Netflix cut (many of the streaming service’s series only have three seasons), the announcement of a high-flyer like this is still surprising. Why would Netflix say goodbye to one of its biggest hits so quickly after the renewal has already taken so long?
At the same time, the decided ending gives hope that the creative minds behind the series will be able to tell exactly the story they want in the next two seasons. The team around series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk (The Fortress) can now firing on all cylinders and does not have to drag out the story unnecessarily.
The official synopsis for the second season of Squid Game is as follows:
Three years after his triumph at Squid Game, player 456 is still determined to to find the people behind it and put an end to their evil game. Gi-hun uses his fortune to finance the search and starts with the most obvious: he looks for the man who plays Ddakji in the subway. But as the clues thicken, the path to dismantling the organization turns out to be more deadly than he imagined: to end the game, he has to get back in.Squid Game ends after season 3: Netflix can still expand the franchise in the future
In addition, Netflix can always return to the Squid Game universe with a spin-off. With Squid Game: The Challenge, Netflix even a reality show launched. With other franchises such as Money Heist, The Witcher and others, we have also seen how flexible the streamer is in expanding its brands.
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