Netflix says that the show’s second season was its most viewed series in the second half of 2024 with 87 million views — this despite not releasing until late December. These mega franchises are a big deal for the streamer,

Squid Game will be returning to Netflix for its third and final season later this Summer, and unfortunately it’s going to be missing out on its best character after they were killed off in Season 2. Squid Game made its return to Netflix last year with its highly anticipated second season,

Netflix says its users — it had about 302 million paid memberships in the fourth quarter of 2024 — spent 94 billion hours with the streamer from July through December, a 5 percent increase from the second half of 2023.

That would be Squid Game Season 2. It led all series in views (and also amassed 619.9 million viewing hours). The magic is that the sec