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Netflix’s runaway hit, Squid Game, will quickly make its grand return with its third and closing 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 sequence out with a bang.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Hwang mentioned the present will capitalize on the hopelessness Gi-hun and crew are wallowing in after their failed rebel by collaborating in video games that may expose the darkest points of human nature.

“Within the case of season 3, I needed to introduce video games that might actually present the bottom backside of human beings, as a result of the sequence itself is reaching its climax,” Hwang mentioned. “I needed very intense video games to carry out the underside components of human nature.”

As EW notes, Hwang curated an inventory of childhood video games to refer again to all through the Emmy-award-winning sequence. 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 top of them will play a pivotal position in all of the stomach-churning anxiousness.

“In season 1, we had a number of video games like Tug of Conflict that basically utilized top and the worry that this top provides, however within the case of season 2, we didn’t have that ingredient,” Hwang mentioned. “That’s the reason in season 3, I made a decision to introduce video games that might infuse worry in folks with sheer top.”

Whereas Hwang saved the particulars of what these video games Gi-hun must endure underneath 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 may 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) getting 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 closing season when you think about the newborn wail on the butt-end of the trailer—all however confirming Kim Jun-hee (Jo Yuri) will give beginning on the worst potential time.

As he has acknowledged up to now, Hwang reiterated that Squid Recreation season 3 will function the present’s closing season. Nonetheless, talking with the Hollywood Reporter in January, Hwang did go away the door open to revisit the sequence via a spin-off, ought to a possibility 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 instructed 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 distinct story arc. Some type of spinoff, possibly.”

In io9’s review for Squid Game 2, we walked away liking components of the present, despite its shorter episode count, greater than we disliked, highlighting pivotal moments like the enduring Russian roulette scene, its new cast of memorable characters, and, in fact, Thanos. Nonetheless, components of the episode season we didn’t jive with revolved across the present spending means 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 kids’s video games with Squid Recreation Season 3 when it premieres on Netflix on June 27.

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