Squid Sport’s Creator Says Season 2 Brings Even Extra Ache

The primary season of Squid Game had audiences by the throat proper from the soar with its premise of adults in South Korea enjoying kids’s video games for cash and getting killed in the event that they lose or don’t observe the foundations. Viewers beloved particular contestants, which made it hit even tougher when these characters had been finally taken out. In accordance with creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, season two received’t let up, and if something, all the things’s about to get much more painful for each the forged and everybody watching them.

Hwang’s previously talked about utilizing this season to speak concerning the various kinds of division which have taken middle stage in recent times, and he additional famous to Empire Magazine how issues “are getting worse [out there]. Our lives should not enhancing.” In comparison with 2021, he feels the world’s taken a flip for the worst due to “worse local weather change, extra wars, and extra folks dying.” Mainly, he mentioned followers ought to put together themselves for some ache: this isn’t simply be a “deeper, extra superior story,” it’ll even be “a lot crueller, scarier and extra ugly” in reflection of how harsher he feels the world has change into.

That’s rather a lot to vow for any present, not to mention one which Netflix is hoping to show right into a larger enterprise. Hwang instructed Empire he’s tried his finest to give attention to the season, however he admitted this sophomore effort wasn’t simple on him, both “bodily or mentally. A number of the sequences we shot had been probably the most difficult in my entire profession. It was…Hell.” How unhealthy are we speaking? In accordance with him, issues acquired to some extent the place he requested himself if he was making one thing “an excessive amount of for folks to deal with.” Yaaaaay?

We’ll see how unhealthy issues can get when Squid Sport returns for season two on December 26.