‘Squid Game’ season three: Player 456 returns in intense new trailer

Netflix has released a new teaser trailer for Squid Game season three – watch it below.

Season three of Netflix’s most-popular non-English series – which will mark its final run of episodes – is due to hit the streamer on June 27. Its release date was announced in January, a month after season two’s release.

Now, Netflix has shared a teaser trailer for season three, offering fans of the survival thriller series a taste of what to expect. The teaser kicks off with several Pink Guards carrying a coffin into a holding room with other players, opening it to reveal a still-alive Player 456 aka Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae).

As the teaser builds, we get intense glimpses at the rest of the season, including the games and choices being made in the final run of Squid Game episodes.

In a press release, Netflix described the premise of what’s to come: “Picking up where the second season left off, season three explores the choices Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) will make amidst overwhelming despair. As the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) plots his next move, the surviving players find their decisions leading to increasingly dire consequences with each round of the deadly games”.

It also hyped up the excitement of the next chapter, saying: “This season promises to push the limits of suspense and drama, keeping viewers glued to the action”. Since debuting in 2021, the show has broken all manner of records for Netflix, becoming one of its most iconic original series.

In NME’s four-star review of Squid Game season two, writer Nick Levine described it as “breathlessly exciting and chokingly emotional” saying that “You’ll be left gasping as Squid Game gets its tentacles around you and squeezes hard”.

Coming just six months after the previous season, its swift arrival was hinted at by series director Hwang Dong-hyuk, who said earlier this month that it was coming “sooner than you think”.

Elsewhere, it was revealed in February that Squid Game actress Lee Joo-sil had died at the age of 81. Lee played Park Mal-soon in the hit show, the mother of Hwang Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon), the police detective that joins forces with a fisherman to attempt to locate the island where the games are being held in season two. Her character is also the stepmother of Hwang In-ho, also known as The Front Man, the main antagonist of the show.

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