While Netflix has established that season 3 of Squid Game is coming in 2025 in multiple promos for its content in the coming year, they may have accidentally let the exact date slip.
Netflix Korea briefly had a video go live that didn’t just have the 2025 release date, but a specific date, June 27, 2025.
That would be just six months from now, essentially record time in releasing a new season of a huge show, especially when it took three years to get from season 1 to season 2.
Sure, I guess I’ll give them the “season 3” badge in this case.
It is going to be an absolutely huge year for Netflix due to how all this is lining up.
Netflix may have inadvertently overlooked the precise date, even though they have made it clear in several promotional materials for their upcoming content that season three of Squid Game will premiere in 2025.
For a brief time, Netflix Korea released a video that named June 27, 2025, as the exact date of the 2025 release. Six months from now, that would be practically record time for a major show to release a new season, especially considering that it took three years to go from season 1 to season 2.
This is more or less Part 2 of Season 2, not a season 3 in the conventional sense, as you will know if you have seen Season 2 and listened to anything creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has to say about it. Here’s what took place.
There isn’t a specific reason other than the fact that when I was writing it, I planned for it to be a single series, which includes seasons two and three. But as I developed the plot, it became too lengthy and had too many episodes because, in addition to returning to the game, Gi-hun also experiences a revolt, which is the storyline’s climax and where he attempts to start an uprising but fails. “.”.
“And I also thought that it was just another game, so I decided that we should split it into two seasons so that Gi-hun’s revolt would fail and he would lose his best friend, which would be another significant climactic event in the first half of the season, so into season two.”. “”.
As a result of the simultaneous production of both seasons, Hwang created a massive 14-episode arc that was divided into two seasons during this three-year break. As of late, Netflix has frequently implemented a “split a new season of a popular series in half” release schedule, with regular releases occurring four and four or five and five and a month apart. With seven-hour episodes spaced six months apart, I suppose I’ll award them the “season 3” badge in this instance.
Why so soon? Again, I believe Netflix is aware that viewers obviously want the cliffhangers of season 2 to be resolved as soon as possible, but the way they are distributing content suggests that they also intend to devote the second half of 2025 to its other two huge series, the final season of Stranger Things, season 5, and Wednesday’s season 2, which are its two most-watched English series ever, with Squid Game being its most-watched overall. With everything coming together, Netflix is going to have a really big year.
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