By Just a few weeks ahead of the second season premiering on the service, viewers are reportedly flocking back to the first run of “Squid Game” on Netflix.
The steamer says the first season has drawn an audience of 330 million and more than 2.8 billion hours viewed since its release on September 2021 and touts the title as the most anticipated of the year.
They add that the first season has seen a 60% spike in viewership following the release of the first trailer for the new run at Halloween. The streamer is currently doing in-person activations in global cities with ones currently underway in New York City and Madrid and another to launch in Sydney next week.
Series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk also spoke with Deadline and explained that the second season’s shorter run of seven episodes was understandable as both it and the third season were filmed back-to-back:
“I wrote seasons two and three at the same time, and we were in production for both simultaneously, and currently we are in the post-production process for Season 3. When I was writing the script for the two seasons, I felt like there was a big turning point or an inflection point, and that was the end of episode seven, so I thought that it would do it justice to have a separate season after that. That’s why I had first seven episodes as Season 2 and then the rest of Season 3.”
The second season of “Squid Game” is set to launch on the streamer on Boxing Day ahead of the third season which will launch next year.
Source: Variety
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