Squid Game is returning to Netflix sooner than you might have thought.
The Korean smash will return for its third and final season on June 27. This is only six months after season two launched on the streamer on Boxing Day.
While many expected the dystopian drama to perhaps get another Christmas bow, the fact that seasons two and three were filmed at the same time has allowed Netflix to return to the world quickly.
The move could also bolster Squid Game’s Emmy chances as the third season will be airing during the voting window for the second season, much like The Bear was last year.
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It comes after the second season got off to a great start, becoming Netflix’s third most-watched season of television ever.
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[SPOILER ALERT] The third and final season follows Gi-Hun (Lee Jung-Jae) after losing his best friend in the game and being driven to utter despair by The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun), who hides his true identity to infiltrate the gam. The story explores what choices Gi-Hun will make in the face of overwhelming despair, while the Front Man continues onto his next move and the surviving players’ choices lead to graver consequences with each round.
As you’ll know if you watched season two, there are still a number of folk left from season two including Myung-gi (played by Yim Si-Wan), a former cryptocurrency influencer who, after losing a hefty sum of cash and incurring huge losses for himself and his subscribers, becomes a fugitive until his involvement in the game; Jun-hee (played by Jo Yu-Ri), a strong-willed woman who participates in the game due to bad investments made at the advice of said influencer; Yong-sik (played by Yang Dong-Geun), a compulsive gambler neck-deep in debt who finds his own mother is a participant in the game and his mother Geum-ja (played by Kang Ae-Sim).
The series comes from creator Hwang Dong-Hyuk, who serves as writer, director and executive producer.
Dong-Hyuk told Deadline last year that he was currently in post-production for season three. “When I was writing the script for the two seasons, I felt like there was a big turning point or an inflection point, and that was the end of episode seven, so I thought that it would do it justice to have a separate season after that. That’s why I had first seven episodes as Season 2 and then the rest of Season 3,” he said.