The second season of The Squid Game hit Netflix on December 26, 2024, and apparently creator Hwang Dong-hyuk is sick of the whole thing.

In a piece in Diversity with details on the 'Squid Game: The Experience' pop-up in New York City - which ostensibly lets fans see what it's like to take part in the deadly games seen on the TV series, which is a little confusing when you think about it, folks they die every time they lose a match on the show - Hwang seemed completely baffled by the show's massive success, which spawned "experiences", video games and a poorly conceived reality series called The Squid Game: Challenge (also on Netflix). "I had no intention of doing a second season because the whole process of writing, producing and directing the show was so challenging. I didn't think about doing another one," Hwang said, referring to his previous claim that he lost teeth due to the stress of making Season 1.

Then Hwang indeed it opened. "I'm so exhausted," admitted the creator. “I'm so tired. In a way, I have to say, I'm pretty sick of The Squid Game. I'm very bored of my life doing something, promoting something, so I'm not thinking about my next project right now, I'm just thinking about going to some remote island and having my free time without any phone calls. . ("Not the 'Squid Game' island," Hwang confirmed.)

Based on the surprise success of Squid Game, whose first season premiered in late 2021 and became a legitimate Netflix sensation, it's not completely surprisingly the streamer wants as much Squid Game related content as possible. (For God's sake, they're still holding those poor Stranger Things kids hostage while that phenomenon ends.) In October of this year, it was announced that David Fincher, who previously worked on the crime drama Mindhunter for Netflix, will helm a new project set in the "Squid Game" universe.although there is still not much information about the project. So will Hwang Dong-hyuk be involved in it? Somehow! Me

"There are certain projects that are currently being made where they are asking my opinion a little more actively," Hwang told Variety. "As far as I know, going forward, there will be even more creative projects coming from the Squid Game universe, some of which I will be more involved in."

The publication also spoke to Minyoung Kim, Netflix's head of Asia Pacific content, who said the international success of The Squid Game was a shock to the system. "We always expected 'Squid Game' to be one of the biggest shows in Korea and in Asia," Kim noted (the show is set in South Korea and features South Korean performers). "It took about 10 days for it to start exploding elsewhere. The real adjective that actually describes it is "surreal". And director Hwang was on the internet all the time, he would record everything on any kind of dashboard he could see, to see how many countries it would be number 1 in. We were all obsessed with a lot of those metrics; we finally realized, "Oh, this is the greatest show in the world."

Based on all of this, it looks like Netflix has done just that love for The Squid Game to last forever, but the show does have an endpoint - and it will be here sooner than you think. In November, Hwang Dong-hyuk spoke with The Hollywood Reporter and confirmed it Season 3 of The Squid Game will be the end of the series. "When I was thinking about the idea of ​​the end of season three, I think it came naturally to me that this is the finale," he told the outlet. “I believed that with that story I could tell everything I wanted to tell through the story of The Squid Game and in Gi-hoon's perspective as a character and I thought we didn't need anything. further stories from here.”

We still have Season 2 on the horizon, and according to series star Lee Jung-jae — who won an Emmy for playing series lead Seong Gi-hoon — when we do see the conclusion of the show, it will blow everyone away. "The ending is something you can't really expect," Lee said in the aforementioned Variety article. "I look forward to seeing what interpretations the viewers have." Until then, you can preview The Squid Game Season 1, watch the reality TV competition (if you want, though I don't recommend it), and stream the entire Squid Game Season 2 on December 26, 2024 year.