‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Sets December Release; Series to End with Season 3 in 2025

Brian Welk
·2 min read

Let the games begin. “Squid Game” will come back for its second season on December 26, 2024, Netflix announced on Wednesday. And series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk additionally confirmed that a third, previously unannounced season of “Squid Game” will be its last, arriving in 2025.

Here’s the official synopsis for Season 2 of the Korean drama, which picks up where Season 1 left off:

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“Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 remains determined to find the people behind the game and put an end to their vicious sport. Using this fortune to fund his search, Gi-hun starts with the most obvious of places: look for the man in a sharp suit playing ddakji in the subway. But when his efforts finally yield results, the path toward taking down the organization proves to be deadlier than he imagined: to end the game, he needs to re-enter it.”

Returning to the cast are Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun, Gong Yoo, and Wi Ha-jun. Newcomers for “Squid Game” Season 2 include Yim Si-wan, Kang Ha-neul, Park Gyu-young, Park Sung-hoon, Jo Yu-ri, Yang Dong-geun, Kang Ae-sim, Lee David, Lee Jin-uk, Choi Seung-hyun, Roh Jae-won, and Won Ji-an.

Hwang is returning as writer, director, and executive producer. He was the first Asian director to win the Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series prize at the Emmys. He also wrote a statement about the release of the new season, which you can see in an image below.

“Squid Game” is Netflix’s most popular show of all time and it isn’t even close. It tops the list of non-English series with 265.2 million views and 2.2 billion hours viewed, dwarfing the next highest title (“Money Heist: Part 4” with just 106 million views), and it even beats out English-language hits like “Wednesday” (252.1 million views) and “Stranger Things 4” (140.7 million views).

The series tells the story of a down-on-his-luck, cash strapped man who is one of 456 players seduced to take part in a competition to win 45.6 billion Korean won, all by playing a series of games intended for children, only for the losers to be killed one by one. The wild success and colorful iconography of the series has been spun off by Netflix with live pop-up experiences and as a reality competition show that used the same premise as the series.

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