Squid Game Season 2 arrives on December 26, with final season in 2025

After nearly three years of waiting (and one reality show we’re still kind of shocked got willed into existence), Netflix has finally confirmed a premiere date for the second season of its ridiculously successful South Korean import series Squid Game: December 26, 2024.

That’s right, friends: Now you can come down from the capitalistic excesses of the Christmas season really, stupidly hard by binging the second season of Hwang Dong-hyuk’s dystopian satire on Boxing Day. God knows they’ve got enough questions to answer still lingering from the show’s first season finale: Who are the other organizers of the games? How can they create new twists on classic children’s games where people inevitably get murdered? Will Lee Jung-jae be forced to sport his Ronald McDonald haircut from the end of the first season for this entire run, or will the Netflix gods be merciful?

In addition to the premiere date, Netflix also let a bit more info slip: Squid Game is now confirmed to be a three-season show, as noted by a statement released by Hwang himself. That third installment will arrive in 2025, so no big gap between the seasons this time; you’ll get to watch all your lethal hop scotches or hide and seek (landmines variant) in relatively quick succession. The show’s second season will star a returning Lee Jung-jae (fresh off The Acolyte), plus season 1’s Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-jun, and Gong Hoo, with new (likely doomed) characters played by Yim Si-wan, Kang Ha-Neul, Park Sung-hoon and Yang Dong-geun as well as Park Gyu-young, Jo Yu-ri, Kang Ae-sim, Lee David, Lee Jin-uk, Choi Seung-hyun, Roh Jae-won, and Won Ji-an.