Squid Game reveals season three premiere date

SPOILER WARNING FOR SQUID GAME SEASON TWO

Remember when you were about 25 minutes from the end of the second season of Squid Game, and everyone is in the throes of that gunfight in the stair maze?

You looked at the time remaining on the episode, double-checked the internet to confirm that, yes, indeed there are only seven chapters, and went, “Um, there is no way this is going to resolve”.

It did not.

The season ended on not just a cliffhanger, which is not uncommon on a TV series, but not a single storyline or subplot had been wrapped up. It really, really, really should have been called season two part one.

Now, Netflix has revealed the premiere date for season two, part two, or what the streamer is officially, erroneously has named season three.

The final episodes will drop on June 27, it announced during a programming showcase overnight in Los Angeles.

There are also a series of new images from the upcoming season, including one of Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) handcuffed to a bedpost in the main dormitory, another of the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) sat atop a mustard coloured chair/throne and an image of a bow-tied coffin being delivered to the characters (is it Park Jung-bae’s body inside?).

As a reminder, among the many, many loose threads still dangling, there’s the question of when will Gi-hun discover number one was actually the Front Man, the fall-out from the crushed uprising, the external expedition looking for the island and the revelation the boat captain is a saboteur and the fate of sniper Kang No-eul.

Fans have previously been teased with a second killer doll in the Red Light, Green Light game, a boyfriend to Young-hee.

Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, who also wrote and directed every episode, show seasons two and three back-to-back so it was always going to be a much shorter break between than it was from season one.

Season one of the series remains Netflix’s most streamed original series of all time while the second season is third on the charts. Wednesday sits between them.

Squid Game tells the story of a murderous competition in which impoverished, indebted or desperate people are recruited to risk their lives in a series of children’s games to win an enormous cash prize.

The show has been hailed as a withering critique of wealth inequality, late-stage capitalism and the limitations of democracy in a system that pits the have-nots against each other.