Skip to main content

The Manual may earn a commission when you buy through links on our site.

We now know when ‘Squid Game’ season 3 will hit Netflix

The show filmed its second and third seasons back to back.

The cast of season 3 of Squid Game.
Netflix

We’re getting ready to play one more round. Netflix has announced that the third and final season of Squid Game will debut on the streaming service on June 27, approximately six months after the previous season hit Netflix on Dec. 26, 2024.

Season 3 was filmed back to back with the show’s second season, ensuring that there would be a much shorter wait between seasons than there had been between seasons 1 and 2 (season 1 debuted all the way back in 2021). Season 3 is also set to be the show’s final season.

Recommended Videos

In the show’s second season, Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun returns to the game that made him one of the richest men in Korea three years after the events of the first season, and this time with a mission: He wants to put a stop to the games for good. The show ended its second season on a pretty major cliffhanger, so it’s probably comforting for fans to know they won’t have to wait that long for a resolution.

The show’s second season is the second most-watched non-English language program in the history of Netflix, with 173 million views since it first premiered. The show sits behind only the show’s first season, which was a word-of-mouth sensation when it first debuted and eventually went on to amass 17 Emmy nominations.

The second season has not been met with the widespread acclaim that came with the first season, but it’s clear that plenty of people are still super invested in how this story wraps up. Now, we know exactly when that wrap-up will occur.

Joe Allen
Contributor
Joe Allen is a freelance culture writer based in upstate New York. His work has been published in The Washington Post, The…
George R.R. Martin has weighed in on the newest ‘Game of Thrones’ spin-off
The author also hinted that the series might drop in the fall.
Peter Claffey in A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

George R.R. Martin has a famously testy relationship with the shows that adapt his work. The Game of Thrones writer has been unafraid to call out various issues he's noticed both in House of the Dragon and the original Game of Thrones series (even as he continues to not release another novel).

In a new blog post, though, Martin revealed that he has seen all six episodes of the new Game of Thrones spin-off A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, and he's over the moon about it.

Read more
Apple’s new sports app will now tell you where to watch nationally broadcast games
The app has introduced a number of imrpovements since it launched in February of 2024.
apple sport

The modern sports landscape can make trying to watch your preferred team a nightmare. You might not know what channel a game is airing on, and if you don't have cable, you have to navigate a jungle of different streaming services in order to figure out whether the game you're looking for is accessible at all.

Apple's latest update to its Sports App comes with one major improvement, allowing you to see where a game is being broadcasted or streamed if its airing nationally in the U.S. The latest update also includes changes designed to make the app more navigable, according to the official release.

Read more
PBS channels are now free to stream inside of Amazon Prime Video
The programming is available through Amazon whether you have a subscription or not.
The PBS logo.

PBS is, by its nature, free to access, but the channel's shows are now easier to stream than ever. PBS's programming is now available to stream through Amazon Prime Video. The streamer has introduced new FAST channels, all available without ads, and contains 150 local PBS affiliate stations and the PBS KIDS Channel.

This content will be available you're an Amazon subscriber or not, and can be found in the "Watch for Free" section. The partnership between Amazon and PBS was first announced in November. At the time, PBS’ chief digital marketing officer Ira Rubenstein explained that the deal was “part of the PBS commitment to make trusted content available to all households across as many platforms as possible.”

Read more