The creator of Netflix’s Squid Game reveals the toughest season three scenes to write

Season three of Netflix’s Squid Game is here, and it sure wasn’t easy to watch. It sounds like it wasn’t easy to make, either. The creator of Squid Game, Hwang Dong-hyuk, has revealed which scenes were the toughest for him to write.

He struggled with the hide and seek challenge, and then the final squid game. He told The Hollywood Reporter: “In the writing process, the most challenging were the fourth and sixth games because of their psychological aspect.”

Apparently the jump rope game was easier to write, but the hardest to film because so many complicated special effects were involved.

However, the trickiest scenes of Squid Game season three to write weren’t any of the games, but figuring out Gi-hun’s emotional journey for the finale.

He said: “The biggest challenge I would say was, how far did I want I want to throw Gi-hun down the pit, and then from where do I make him rise up again? At the end of season two, he fails the rebellion. He loses the people that he had gone to rebellion with, including, of course, his best friend. But I wanted to dig even deeper than that in season three. The process of Gi-hun’s arc where that immense amount of guilt that he carries and all of that tragedy through the rebellion, it just completely consumes him and he cannot take it any longer. So he projects that immense guilt onto this character Dae-ho who failed to return with the ammo. Gi-hun struggles in order to escape this immense sense of guilt and that leads him to kill someone for the first time, based on his guilt. This means that now there is blood in Gi-hun’s hands. He commits an irreconcilable original sin.

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“And so, depicting and writing the process of that character arc where Gi-hun is in that state, and how he comes back from that? That was the biggest challenge. That was what I struggled the most with. As for what I came what I came up with, hopefully after watching the entire show, the audience will understand and support the conclusion.”

Erm, I’m not sure I support how heart-breaking and gut-wretching and downright tragic that conclusion was. But I do understand now how Hwang Dong-hyuk came up with that shocking ending.

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