Squid Game Season 2 may have ended on a brutal cliffhanger, but fret not! The show's third and final season is confirmed for a 2025 release — and the Season 2 finale even includes a post-credits scene to hint at what's coming next.

What “Squid Game,” directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, still has going for it is its visual imagination. Its themes of class struggle, shared with Korean films like “Parasite” and “Snowpiercer,” are rendered with flair, and not just in the pastel abattoir of the game sets.

Hwang Dong-hyuk’s global phenomenon — a violent survival thriller about desperate people forced to play deadly children’s games in hopes of winning life-changing cash — returns with seven episodes that feel more like a bridge to the third and final season than a distinct arc of their own.