The blood-pumping survival drama Squid Game isn’t done testing the limits of its players, or its viewers. Just days after the highly streamed second season dropped on Netflix, fans were treated to an eerie New Year’s Day teaser for the already-confirmed third and final season, coming in 2025.

The 15-second teaser introduced a new character, Chul-su, a boy counterpart to the terrifying, iconic doll Young-hee. The brief clip shows three new players in their signature numbered tracksuits entering a new arena for another “fun” game of “Red Light, Green Light”. As Young-hee turns her ominous gaze at a railroad crossing, Chul-su appears on the opposite side, locking eyes with her in a haunting stare-off. “Everyone say hi to Chul-su,” Netflix teased on social media.

Season 2 of Squid Game made a thunderous return, racking up 68 million views within its first three days after launching on December 26. The seven-episode second season claimed the No. 1 spot on Netflix’s weekly non-English TV list across 92 countries, becoming the streamer’s most-watched title of the week, and showed how popular it is around the world. The new season picks up with Lee Jung-jae reprising his role as Seong Gi-hun, the unlikely survivor of Season 1’s deadly game. This time, Seong returns to the life-and-death competition with one goal in mind, and that’s to take down the organization tormenting people in the first place.

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The first season was critically acclaimed, but Collider‘s Therese Lacson felt that Season 2 was trying to play its greatest hits again, without successfully implementing new additions to the plot.

“In some ways, it’s hard for the show not to replay its greatest hits. From not-so-shocking betrayals to bloody massacres, Squid Game doubles down on the same points to try and recapture lightning in a bottle. Even though there’s a full story outside the arena, with Hwang Jun-ho trying to track down the island where Gi-hun has been taken to, it gets kicked to the side in favor of the Games — coincidentally, his storyline was also the most interesting part of Season 1. Ultimately, Squid Game hasn’t shaken off the weakest aspects of Season 1. It’s still dealing in blacks and whites, though the Front Man’s involvement helps to soften that.”

Squid Game Season 3 returns later in 2025. The first two seasons are available to stream now on Netflix.

via Collider