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The Creator of ‘Squid Game’ Wants the Games to Get Even Worse In the Final Season

Published on: 2025-06-26 16:00:21

Netflix’s runaway hit, Squid Game, will soon make its grand return with its third and final season. Ahead of its release, creator Hwang Dong-hyuk revealed the games to come will push Lee Jung-jae’s Seong Gi-hun and the surviving players to their absolute limit and send the series out with a bang. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Hwang said the show will capitalize on the hopelessness Gi-hun and crew are wallowing in after their failed rebellion by participating in games that will expose the darkest aspects of human nature. “In the case of season 3, I wanted to introduce games that could really show the lowest bottom of human beings, because the series itself is reaching its climax,” Hwang said. “I wanted very intense games to bring out the bottom parts of human nature.” As EW notes, Hwang curated a list of childhood games to refer back to throughout the Emmy-award-winning series. Squid Game season 3 will see even more childhood games with a murderous twist added to them. H ... Read full article.