The exact ‘Squid Game’ season 3 release date may have been leaked by Netflix

Although Netflix has stated that Season 3 of Squid Game will arrive in 2025 in several promos for its content in the coming year, they may have accidentally let the exact date slip.

Netflix Korea briefly had a video live that not only had the 2025 release date, but a specific date, June 27, 2025. That would be only six months from now, essentially record time to release a new season of a huge show. especially when it took three years to get from Season 1 to Season 2.

But if you’ve seen season 2 and heard anything creator Hwang Dong-hyuk has said about this, you’ll know that this is more or less part 2 of season 2, rather than a season 3 in the more traditional sense. Here’s what happened:

“There’s no particular reason other than I originally saw it as a single series, saw both seasons two and three as a single series when I wrote it. But then, while I was writing the story together, it became too many episodes and too long of a story because you see Gi-hun’s journey, where he returns to the game, but also he goes through a rebellion, and that’s actually the climax of that story, where he tries to create a rebellion, but then it all goes to failure.”

“And I also saw that aspect of it as another battle, and so I thought we’d break it up into two seasons to get that—Gi-hun’s rebellion fails, he ends up losing his best friend, that in itself is another important climatic event in the first half of the season, then into season two.”

Production on both seasons happened at once, so part of this three-year gap was Hwang doing a mammoth 14-episode arc that was split into two seasons. While Netflix has done a “split a new season of a popular series in half” release schedule a lot of the time, it’s usually 4 and 4 or 5 and 5 and a month or so. Here six months apart, with seven hour long episodes each? Of course, I’ll give them the “season 3” tag in this case.

Why so soon? Well, again, I think Netflix knows that people clearly want Season 2 cliffhangers resolved sooner rather than later, but also the way they’re distributing content means they’ll likely have the second half of 2025 set aside to the other two massive shows, the final season of Stranger Things, Season 5, and Season 2 of Wednesday, its two most-watched English series of all time, with Squid Game being its most-watched overall. It’s going to be an absolutely huge year for Netflix because of how all of this ties together.

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