"Squid Game" Season 2 just had its biggest week-to-week viewership decline in its brief history. Hard to make history that way.

Since its premiere on December 26, 2024, over 150 million people have watched the long-awaited series Squid Game season 2, making it Netflix’s biggest TV debut ever. However, not all viewers have probably caught on to the myriad of details its director Hwang Dong-hyuk has hidden and scattered throughout the episodes.

Green light! With 152.5 million total views, the second installment of “Squid Game” has become the third most-watched TV season on Netflix, trailing behind only its own first season (265 million) and “Wednesday” (252 million).

Squid Game Season 2 had some big shoes to fill when it arrived, given just how wildly successful the Emmy-winning first season was. And although the sophomore run on Netflix was a fun one, the format change was frustrating. Specifically, that it took us so long to get in the games, and how few games actually happened through the second season.

Squid Game co-stars Lee Jung-jae and Lee Byung-hun joined forces in a YouTube talk show. During their appearance, they played a game and it involved some questions about their hit Netflix series.

Squid Game Season 2 has been taking over Netflix ever since it launched last December, and now the season has officially become one of the most watched seasons on Netflix ever. Squid Game was one of the biggest successes for Netflix in the 2020s as the Korean drama really took the world by storm.

Squid Game season 2, though, is already one of Netflix's most popular shows ever, rocketing up to the second spot in the Non-English language all-time chart. It's behind Squid Game season 1 – but that might change over the next 80 days.

Squid Game,” the Korean thriller/drama that took the world by storm in 2021, has returned at the end of 2024 for its second season

This article contains spoilers for season 2 of Squid Game and its ending.

Season 2 of "Squid Game" has been sitting comfortably at the No. 1 spot of Netflix’s top 10 list since its debut, but it’s finally been unseated — by an unlikely show