Squid Game’s Creator Says Season 2 Brings Even More Pain

The archetypal play of Squid Game had audiences by the pharynx close from the leap with its premise of adults successful South Korea playing children’s games for wealth and getting killed if they suffer oregon don’t travel the rules. Viewers loved circumstantial contestants, which made it deed adjacent harder erstwhile those characters were yet taken out. According to creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, season two won’t fto up, and if anything, everything’s astir to get adjacent much achy for some the formed and everyone watching them.

Hwang’s previously talked astir utilizing this season to speech astir the antithetic types of part that person taken halfway signifier successful caller years, and helium further noted to Empire Magazine however things “are getting worse [out there]. Our lives are not improving.” Compared to 2021, helium feels the world’s taken a crook for the worst acknowledgment to “worse clime change, much wars, and much radical dying.” Basically, helium said fans should hole themselves for immoderate pain: this isn’t conscionable beryllium a “deeper, much precocious story,” it’ll besides beryllium “much crueller, scarier and much gruesome” successful reflection of however harsher helium feels the satellite has become.

That’s a batch to committedness for immoderate show, fto unsocial 1 that Netflix is hoping to crook into a larger enterprise. Hwang told Empire he’s tried his champion to absorption connected the season, but helium admitted this sophomore effort wasn’t casual connected him, either “physically oregon mentally. Some of the sequences we changeable were the astir challenging successful my full career. It was…Hell.” How atrocious are we talking? According to him, things got to a constituent wherever helium asked himself if helium was making thing “too overmuch for radical to handle.” Yaaaaay?

We’ll spot however atrocious things tin get erstwhile Squid Game returns for play 2 connected December 26.