You know the way you hear about an ending for a present the unique creator was considering of doing, and also you’re identical to, “God, how may you ever suppose that?” Yeah, that’s me with the Squid Sport Season 3 ending.
We have been ready for the ultimate season of Squid Sport to come back out as a part of the 2025 TV schedule. When the second season premiered in December 2024, followers have been champing on the bit for the video games to proceed after they have been break up into two components this time round. Now, Season 3 got here with the second half and the last word ending.
However, because the information cycle goes, the creator of the sequence, Hwang Dong-hyuk, sat down with The Hollywood Reporter in June 2025 to debate how the present may have led to his thoughts – and yeah, I’ve to say that this ending does not sit proper with me.
The Concept Of Gi-hun In some way Surviving Would not Sit Properly With Me
For individuals who haven’t seen the Hollywood Reporter article, right here is the quote in regards to the ending the creator initially considered:
At first I had a obscure thought about how I’d finish the story. And again then, it was having Gi-hun finish the sport, in a method or one other, and depart alive and go see his daughter in America. So initially, I believed the one who witnesses the American recruiter lady can be Gi-hun.
Clearly, the creator stated that as he was writing Gi-hun (performed by Lee Jung-jae) and the top of his story, the true ending started to take kind. However even the thought of Gi-hun surviving this is mindless.
In the beginning of Season 2, we actually see Gi-hun on the finish of his rope. He thrives on rage and different feelings to maintain himself going. If he didn’t have that, he wouldn’t have performed that epic face-off towards the Recruiter, as a result of part of him actually didn’t care if he lived or died, provided that he took down the video games.
Within the authentic thought, Gi-hun in some way will get out of the video games once more and lives fortunately along with his daughter? He would by no means have the ability to dwell with that guilt. His sacrificing himself ultimately is de facto what made his story so impactful – that he would reasonably die than take the lifetime of one other harmless.
Additionally, His Daughter By no means Understanding What He Really Did Is Tragic But Stunning
One other main factor is, yeah, Gi-hun going off to dwell along with his daughter would have been candy, however thematically and story-wise, it doesn’t make sense. There’s already loads of stress between her and him initially of Season 2, so until her mom and new household in some way ended up within the video games – or God forbid, her – then I can’t see a manner the place she and Gi-hun would dwell fortunately in America.
Plus, her not understanding what her father did for her, and considering he was only a jerk who left their household, makes this story a lot heavier. She’ll by no means fairly get it, nor have the choice to, since Gi-hun is useless, and all she has are the garments that In-ho (The Entrance Man) leaves for her. That’s highly effective stuff.
The Ending Is Nice The Method It Is — Not The whole lot Wants To Finish With A Fairly Bow
Look, I’m additionally okay with joyful endings. There’s a cause why the finest rom-coms exist – as a result of most of them have joyful endings, and other people love joyful endings. However not every part has to have a contented ending. Squid Sport is a sequence that didn’t have to have a contented ending.
This sequence had many highlights, together with the introduction of Participant 120, the emotional sequences between the gamers, the numerous influence of Season 1, and its introduction of a number of new sections of the world to South Korean dramas. However simply because there have been quite a lot of excessive moments doesn’t equate to a contented ending.
If something, that is the form of ending that’s supposed to go away you with a bitter style in your mouth. That is proper, the video games in South Korea are performed, however corruption is all over the place, and anybody who has energy will use it to their benefit. It’s no marvel the video games have been now utilized in America on the finish, as a result of that’s exactly what would occur in actuality.
It’s bleak, however uncooked, and the ending that Squid Sport wanted. Not each hero makes it out alive. And never each monarchy falls to mud as soon as it’s toppled. Generally, it solely takes a single spark for it to ignite someplace anew and trigger extra disaster than ever earlier than.
Properly, now I would like to take a look at the finest exhibits to binge on Netflix to fill this Squid Sport-sized gap in my coronary heart. Be again when extra information about David Fincher’s model comes out.