Netflix’s runaway hit, Squid Game, will quickly make its grand return with its third and remaining season. Forward of its launch, creator Hwang Dong-hyuk revealed the video games to come back will push Lee Jung-jae’s Seong Gi-hun and the surviving gamers to their absolute restrict and ship the collection out with a bang.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Hwang stated the present will capitalize on the hopelessness Gi-hun and crew are wallowing in after their failed insurrection by taking part in video games that can expose the darkest features of human nature.
“Within the case of season 3, I needed to introduce video games that would actually present the bottom backside of human beings, as a result of the collection itself is reaching its climax,” Hwang stated. “I needed very intense video games to deliver out the underside elements of human nature.”
As EW notes, Hwang curated an inventory of childhood video games to refer again to all through the Emmy-award-winning collection. Squid Recreation season 3 will see much more childhood video games with a murderous twist added to them. Nonetheless, one theme of the video games that Hwang needed to highlight is reintroducing video games the place the literal peak of them will play a pivotal position in all of the stomach-churning nervousness.
“In season 1, we had a number of video games like Tug of Battle that basically utilized peak and the worry that this peak provides, however within the case of season 2, we didn’t have that ingredient,” Hwang stated. “That’s the reason in season 3, I made a decision to introduce video games that would infuse worry in individuals with sheer peak.”
Whereas Hwang saved the particulars of what these video games Gi-hun must endure beneath wraps, Netflix’s dropping the official teaser trailer for the present does give us an inkling of what a few of these video games may entail. One second within the trailer exhibits the gamers receiving blue and pink balls from a sweet machine, denoting a team-based battle that can break up the mother-son duo of Geum-ja (Kang Ae-sim) and Yong-sik (Yang Dong-geun). One other glimpse of the forthcoming season confirmed the gamers strolling a maze and Cho Hyun-ju (Park Sung-hoon) making ready to throw fingers. Granted, none of those sneak peeks showcased any heights within the recreation. Nonetheless, feelings look like at an all-time excessive within the remaining season when you think about the infant wail on the butt-end of the trailer—all however confirming Kim Jun-hee (Jo Yuri) will give delivery on the worst potential time.
As he has acknowledged previously, Hwang reiterated that Squid Recreation season 3 will function the present’s remaining season. Nonetheless, talking with the Hollywood Reporter in January, Hwang did go away the door open to revisit the collection via a spin-off, ought to a chance come up.
“The third season will actually discover that sense of loss and failure, that guilt weighing so closely on Gi-hun. How’s he going to navigate the story additional with all of that weighing down on him? Personally, I see the third season as being the finale to this story,” Hwang informed THR. “That’s as a result of I consider I’ve had closure to the story I needed to inform about society via the character of Seong Gi-hun. If I ever needed to return to the world of Squid Recreation, it could be about completely different characters with a special story arc. Some form of spinoff, possibly.”
In io9’s review for Squid Game 2, we walked away liking elements of the present, despite its shorter episode count, greater than we disliked, highlighting pivotal moments like the long-lasting Russian roulette scene, its new cast of memorable characters, and, in fact, Thanos. Nonetheless, elements of the episode season we didn’t jive with revolved across the present spending manner too much time on boat antics with Jun-ho, it’s Empire Strikes Again middle-story syndrome, and the video games themselves being simply alright.
Hopefully, Hwang will keep true to his phrase on upping the ante of the lethal youngsters’s video games with Squid Recreation Season 3 when it premieres on Netflix on June 27.
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