It’s likely that Squid Game will continue to put up impressive numbers, since according to Netflix the second season was seeing record viewership into January. Six other titles scored over 1B viewing minutes, including Virgin River with 1.39B, marking its third week in second place since Season 6 premiered on December 19.

Squid Game” reached 4.6 billion minutes watched on Netflix in Season 2’s first full week of availability, per Nielsen. Even though that’s a small drop from the 4.9 billion minutes the series achieved the week before,

Paramount+'s Landman continued its upward trajectory in the first few days of 2025, hitting its best viewing-time mark so far in Nielsen's streaming rankings. Squid Game had a second straight huge week for Netflix as well.

After the second season's cliffhanger, the final "Squid Game" is set to debut this summer. Netflix also teased the "Stranger Things" finale.

Lee stars in Season 2 of “Squid Game” alongside returning cast member Wi Ha-jun as Jun-ho and Lee Byung-hun as the mysterious Front Man, alongside a slew of new stars. Hwang Dong-hyuk is the creator of the series and serves as director and executive producer, with Kim Ji-yeon also serving as an EP.

We don’t have to wait three years for Squid Game season 3 like we did for season 2, but we now know Netflix’s number one non-English language series of all time will be ending soon. Today, Netflix unveiled Squid Game’s final season will premiere on June 27 with some sneak peeks into the aftermath of season 2's bloody finale.