We now live in a world where TV shows might go three full years without a new season in the name of being ‘prestige’ or whatever. Anyway, Squid Game season 2 is finally arriving this Christmas, and the surprise here is that Netflix will be wrapping it all up by 2025.

After a bunch-of-nothing announcement earlier this year, Netflix has finally shared with its subscribers a definitive release date for season 2 of the hit series: December 26, the day after Christmas. I’m sure the kids will love this even if they shouldn’t.

Netflix will have disappointed you if you were hoping for a trailer now that we’re in the back half of 2024, as it always likes to kick marketing off much closer to release dates for some reason, even if many of its shows end up dropping out of nowhere and getting, er, not good viewership numbers.

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