You’d suppose there is likely to be some sort of sophisticated purpose as to why a profitable present like Squid Recreation is barely getting one season, but it surely’s really fairly easy.
When Squid Recreation proved to be such an enormous hit again in 2021, it was fairly apparent that Netflix would wish to capitalise on that in some way, notably with its cliffhanger of an ending. Season 2 is lastly 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 last season. Squid Recreation creator Hwang Dong-hyuk lately spoke with The Hollywood Reporter concerning the upcoming second season, however curiously he additionally shared his reasoning behind solely making three seasons in complete.
“After I was excited 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 every thing that I wished to inform by the story of Squid Recreation and in addition 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 Recreation, as a David Fincher-led American remake is supposedly on the way in which, however no less than the unique present can be ending by itself phrases.
It is also value noting that Hwang did not really envision three seasons initially, explaining, “I felt a specific amount of strain as a result of I knew that there was an enormous quantity of anticipation on the market, and actually 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 will 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 as a way to put a cease to the sport.”
Squid Recreation is out December 26 on Netflix.
