The creator of Squid Game has one simple reason as to why he’s ending the show after three seasons

You’d assume there is perhaps some type of difficult purpose as to why a profitable present like Squid Game is simply getting one season, but it surely’s truly fairly easy.

When Squid Sport proved to be such a large hit again in 2021, it was fairly apparent that Netflix would wish to capitalise on that one way or the other, notably with its cliffhanger of an ending. Season 2 is finally arriving this December, three years after the primary one arrived, with Netflix additionally confirming that the present will finish in 2025 with a 3rd and closing season. Squid Sport creator Hwang Dong-hyuk not too long ago spoke with The Hollywood Reporter concerning the upcoming second season, however apparently he additionally shared his reasoning behind solely making three seasons in whole.

“Once I was eager about the thought for the ending of season three, I believe it type of naturally got here to me that this was the finale,” Hwang mentioned. “I believed that with that story, I used to be capable of inform the whole lot that I wished to inform via the story of Squid Sport and likewise within the perspective of Gi-hun as a personality, and I believed that we don’t want any additional tales from right here.” That does not essentially imply the top of Squid Sport, as a David Fincher-led American remake is supposedly on the way, however at the least the unique present shall be ending by itself phrases.

It is also price noting that Hwang did not truly envision three seasons initially, explaining, “I felt a certain quantity of strain as a result of I knew that there was an enormous quantity of anticipation on the market, and truthfully once I was creating season one I didn’t plan in any element that there could be a second season. Nonetheless, I did have one thing in thoughts that if there have been to ever be a second season, I had this concept of what story I’d inform; I believed it could be the story of Gi-hun turning away from the place he was on the finish of season one and going again into the video games with a purpose to put a cease to the sport.”

Squid Sport is out December 26 on Netflix.