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Alice in Borderland Season 3: Your Post-Squid Game Recovery Program Starts September 25
Squid Game is over. You’re sad. You’re confused. You’re wondering what to do with your life now that no one’s being dramatically eliminated in a pastel-colored murder maze.
Don’t panic — Alice in Borderland Season 3 is coming to save you. Or rather, destroy you again in a completely different, equally traumatic way. Netflix has officially announced that the Japanese death-game darling will return on September 25, 2025, complete with a teaser trailer and a fresh set of soul-shattering dilemmas. Who needs therapy when you have another season of high-concept existential horror?
If You Liked Squid Game, You’ll Love This Slightly More Nihilistic Version
While Squid Game had tracksuits, marbles, and a sprinkle of social commentary, Alice in Borderland offers Tokyo itself — empty, apocalyptic, and crawling with games designed by someone who definitely got kicked out of a philosophy class for being “too intense.”
Yes, both shows feature people being forced to play deadly games. But Alice in Borderland leans harder into sci-fi, mystery, and “what even is reality?” territory. If Squid Game asked, “What would people do for money?” Alice in Borderland asks, “What’s the point of anything when lasers from space can vaporize you for losing tag?”
So basically, same vibes — just with less capitalism, more cosmic dread.
Catch Up Before the Chaos Continues
In Season 1, we met Arisu, a gamer who finds himself and his equally unlucky friends suddenly transported to a deserted Tokyo known only as the Borderland — which sounds like a cool video game map but is really just an open-air anxiety attack.
Games are tied to playing cards. Win, and you live to panic another day. Lose, and a sky laser erases you like a browser history. Arisu teams up with Usagi (whose name literally means “rabbit,” because metaphors are mandatory), and they start unraveling the mystery behind this messed-up new reality.
By Season 2, the games get even harder, the deaths get even messier, and the big question becomes: do you want to leave this hellhole… or is escaping just another trap?
Now, with Season 3 officially dropping next year, it’s time to re-enter the maze — more danger, more questions, and probably more characters you’ll regret getting attached to.
Alice in Wonderland, But Everyone’s Traumatized
Yes, the title is intentional. Alice in Borderland is the gritty, gunmetal reimagining of Alice in Wonderland nobody asked for, but we’re getting anyway. Arisu is the Japanese pronunciation of “Alice,” and Usagi is literally a rabbit. It’s like someone handed Lewis Carroll a bunch of MDMA, an apocalypse budget, and a kill switch.
And in case you missed it: this might be the darkest modern Isekai out there. Characters are pulled from the real world into a dimension where the laws of logic have been replaced by the rules of a Saw-themed casino.
Squid Game Fans, Don’t Just Sit There in Withdrawal
We get it. You’re still grieving Squid Game. You want more cryptic clues, more emotional gut-punches, and more disturbingly good-looking leads staring off into the void.
Well, Alice in Borderland has you covered. It has the stakes. It has the carnage. It has the breakdowns. And unlike Squid Game, it’s not holding back on the weird — or the body count.
So don’t just mope around waiting for Squid Game: The American Spin off That Will Absolutely Miss the Point™ — dive into Alice in Borderland, where things are already weird, and getting weirder.
Season 3 Drops September 25, 2025 — Prepare Accordingly
The teaser trailer is out. The countdown has begun. You have just enough time to binge Seasons 1 and 2, scream into a pillow, and start emotionally detaching from characters before the next round of psychological warfare begins.
Because in Borderland, the games never end. And neither does the emotional damage.
