While Netflix has established that season 3 of Squid Game is coming in 2025 in multiple promos for its content in the coming year, they may have accidentally let the exact date slip.

The layers come into play, though, when you start moving those pieces around the game board, and Squid Game does a brilliant job of that in its second season, when it puts the Front Man into the game as player 001—except the viewers are the only ones who know who he really is.

Hwang Dong-hyuk tells The Hollywood Reporter what's ahead for Gi-hun and the Front Man when the streamer's smash success returns with season three in 2025.