Netflix teases the return of its three biggest series this year

Netflix gave fans a taste of what to expect this year.

To celebrate the first day of 2025, the streaming giant shared a montage on X/Twitter teasing the return of three of its most-watched shows: Squid game, Wednesday And Stranger Things.

“Your 3 favorite shows are returning this year. Welcome to 2025,” we read in the caption.

The clip opens with a shot of Jenna Ortega’s Wednesday Addams before cutting to the casting of Stranger Thingsas a voiceover states: “It’s happening. Something is happening.

A scene from Squid gameThe Front Man is then introduced before the message: “In 2025, the 3 greatest shows of all time will return”, flashes on the screen.

While an exact return date for each show has yet to be announced, subscribers can rest assured that their favorite shows will premiere soon enough.

Squid game

The Korean-language thriller, which became Netflix’s most-watched series after its 2021 debut, will return with its third and final season this year.

The hit series, which sees hundreds of cash-strapped individuals compete in deadly games for a life-changing sum of money, released its second season on December 26. The series’ creator, writer, and director, Hwang Dong-hyuk, has already given fans a glimpse of what they can expect in the upcoming season.

Hwang explained that he initially intended to write the second season’s story over a period of approximately eight to nine episodes. Variety that “once I finished the story, it was over 10 episodes long, which I thought were too long to be contained in a single season.”

“So I wanted to have a suitable point where I could close a second season and then move on to the third,” he explained.

Speaking of Squid gameThe main character, Seong Gi-hun/Player 456 (Lee Jung-jae), and the obstacles he faced during season two, Hwang said the new season will pick up with him “having this feeling of enormous guilt and this feeling of failure which weighs on him. heavily on him. “How will Gi-hun complete his mission?” This is the story that will unfold further,” he added.

Wednesday

Starring Jenna Ortega as the morbid young Wednesday Addams, Wednesday exceeds Stranger Things to become Netflix’s most-streamed English-language show when it premieres in 2022.

The second season of the series – which follows Wednesday’s dark adventures as she seeks to master her emerging psychic abilities and solve the mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago – will be “darker and more complex”, according to showrunners and executive producers Al Gough and Miles Millar, revealed.

“This season is going to be bigger and more twisted than you can imagine,” also teased Catherine Zeta-Jones, who plays Wednesday’s mother, Morticia Addams.

Stranger Things

Netflix’s hit original series, Stranger things, is coming to an end after five successful seasons. The sci-fi show – led by Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin and Gaten Matarazzo about a group of friends seeking answers to the paranormal mysteries plaguing their fictional Indiana town – has premiered for the first time on the streamer in 2016.

The series went on to break streaming records on Netflix before ultimately being broken by Wednesday.

Series creators Matt and Ross Duffer previously said they wrote a 25-page document during the first season detailing the history and mythology of the Upside Down.

“We were like, ‘We kind of know what’s going on in the upside-down world, but we want it to be unknowable.’ We want it to be mysterious,” Matt explained. “But they were like, ‘Yeah, but can you write it?’ And so we wrote everything down.

At Geeked Week, Ross said that the upcoming season five would contain “the last remaining questions answered in this document.”

“And that’s really going to affect what Season 5 is about,” he added.