Squid Game creator reveals real reason he decided to split current games across two seasons

The Squid Game 2 episodes have caused a split – quite literally. The most recent return of the games has left quite a few people frustrated by the ending.

Squid Game 2 saw Gi-hun back again. He at first tried to track down The Recruiter and make the games come to a stop, but then he joined the deadly challenges once again. Then Squid Game was back in full force. However, people have moaned that season two’s ending was rushed, as the games don’t come to a conclusion.

That being said, season three has been confirmed as coming in 2025, and the show’s creator has spilled all on his decision to give us the cliffhanger.

via Netflix

When asked why the current games run into season three, Hwang Dong-hyuk said: “No other particular reason than that I originally envisioned it as a single series, so both seasons two and three as a single series when I was writing it.

“But then, as I wrote the story along, it became to be too many episodes and too long of a story because you see Gi-hun’s journey where he returns to the game, but also he goes through a revolt, and that is actually the climax of that storyline, where he tries to create an uprising, but then that all goes to failure.

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“And I also saw that aspect of it as yet another game as well, and so I thought that we would divide it into two seasons to have that – Gi-hun’s revolt going into a failure, him ending up losing his best friend, that itself being yet another important climatic event in the first half of the season, so into season two.”

He added that a lot of it was down to the character arc we’re seeing Gi-hun as having. “And to put a stop there, I thought that would just be the right adequate moment to rest and have it continue on in the further season,” he added. “Because after Gi-hun experiences that event, based on the failure, as well as that immense sense of guilt, you’re going to get yet another character arc from Gi-hun. So I thought it would be better to divide that for another season.”

I need season three now!

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