Netflix released the second season of Squid Game approximately a week ago. If you still haven’t seen it, what are you doing here? This is a dangerous place for those susceptible to spoilers. Go finish the season and then come back. At just seven episodes, it shouldn’t take you very long.
THR.com conducted an interview with Squid Game creator and head writer Hwang Dong-hyuk and asked him some afterthought questions about the second season — and the third. As Dong-hyuk pointed out to them, if there’s any theme to Gi-hun’s arc in Season 2, it’s failure. He tries using his money to put a stop to the games — he can’t. He tries entering the game himself to convince everyone not to participate — he can’t do that either/ Ultimately, he tries to incite a rebellion and revolution from within — and he fails at that too, but the third failure isn’t entirely his fault. He was just unaware who his new friend was.
So what kind of state will Gi-hun be in by the time we see him again? Not an upbeat one! “The third season will really explore that sense of loss and failure, that guilt weighing so heavily on Gi-hun,” Dong-hyuk says. “How’s he going to navigate the story further with all of that weighing down on him?”
As for the Front Man, his plan pretty much went off without a hitch, but it did hint that there are multiple sides to what seemed in Season One to be a one-note villain. His backstory was not a fib, we’ve been told. “I believe the Front Man harbors a very strange inferiority complex, or a sense of defeat, when he sees Gi-hun,” says Dong-hyuk. “Even deeper down, I suspect he harbors a bit of respect for Gi-hun as well…He really sees what he let go of and what he lost when he sees Gi-hun. Secretly, he might even want Gi-hun to fight on.” Dong-hyuk was asked at this point if there will be a redemption arc for Front Man. “You can see it in season three. There’s an answer to that question.”
It’s not going to take very long to get answers, especially compared to the three-year wait for Season 2. Seasons 2 and 3 were filmed back to back, and Dong-hyuk says the third is in post-production right now. We could see it in either the spring or the summer. But is that truly the end? Dong-hyuk was asked about the possibility of spinoffs, and didn’t rule it out. “If I ever wanted to go back to the world of Squid Game, it would be about different characters with a different story arc. Some kind of spinoff, maybe. For example, the masked guards. How did they end up here? What do they do in their downtime? Something like that, maybe.”
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