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- Why Is "Squid Game" Ending? All About the Creator's Passionate Choice to Finish with Season 3</p>
<p>Christopher RudolphJune 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM</p>
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<p>'Squid Game.'</p>
<p>The final season of Squid Game premiered June 27 on Netflix</p>
<p>Series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk envisioned seasons 2 and 3 as a single story</p>
<p>Star Lee Jung-jae admitted he was "very nervous" about how fans would react to the finale</p>
<p>Like the players in Red Light, Green Light, Squid Game has come to a stop with the third and final season.</p>
<p>The South Korean series debuted on Netflix in September 2021, with 142 million households tuning in to watch during the first month, Deadline reported. For series creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, the idea for the dystopian drama started as a feature film script in 2009, eventually morphing into a television show.</p>
<p>Viewers followed Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), a.k.a. player 456, a man in serious financial debt, who agrees to participate in a series of children's games to win money. He joins 455 other contestants, who also need cash, as they all compete to earn the cutthroat competition's ultimate prize — or die trying.</p>
<p>When season 2 returned in December 2024, Gi-hun returned to the game with a different perspective. As with its debut installment, Squid Game ended up being the most-watched series of the 2024-2025 TV season, per Variety.</p>
<p>Most recently, season 3 premiered on June 27, and the series' last six episodes conclude Gi-hun's story.</p>
<p>So why is Squid Game ending? Here's everything to know about Hwang's decision to finish the show and whether there will be spinoffs.</p>
<p>Why is Squid Game ending?</p>
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<p>'Squid Game.'</p>
<p>Squid Game is ending with season 3 because Hwang had "the desire to put a closure to the story" after working on season 1.</p>
<p>"In terms of why did I decide to end the story with season 3, I think that the story I wanted to tell came to a full closure at the end of season 3," he told Entertainment Weekly in December 2024.</p>
<p>Hwang added, "The story that I both wanted to tell and that I am capable of telling through Gi-hun, it has been told with season 3."</p>
<p>In a January 2025 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the creator revealed that if he ever returned to the world of Squid Game, "it would be about different characters with a different story arc."</p>
<p>"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," he teased.</p>
<p>Was Squid Game always going to be three seasons?</p>
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<p>'Squid Game.'</p>
<p>No, Squid Game was not intended to be three seasons. It was originally conceived as a movie, before becoming what was supposed to be one season of television.</p>
<p>"I was creating season one I didn't plan in any detail that there would be a second season," Hwang told The Hollywood Reporter in November 2024. "However, I did have something in mind that if there were to ever be a second season, I had this idea of what story I would tell."</p>
<p>In a December 2024 interview with Entertainment Weekly, he explained that it wasn't typical for Korean series to have multiple seasons. Hwang also told the outlet that when he eventually started working on expanding Squid Game's plot, he initially "envisioned seasons 2 and 3 as a single story."</p>
<p>"That's how I wrote it. But in the process, it came out to be too many episodes," he recalled. "So I thought it'd be better to divide it into two."</p>
<p>What has the Squid Game cast said about the show ending?</p>
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<p>Lee Jung-jae, Jung Hoyeon and Park Hae Soo attend the Los Angeles screening of Netflix's 'Squid Game' on November 8, 2021 in Hollywood, California.</p>
<p>At Netflix's Tudum 2025 event in June 2025, series star Lee admitted to The Hollywood Reporter that he was "very nervous" about how the fans would react to the end of season 3.</p>
<p>"I'm happy with how it ended but I know that the fans out there, they each have what they want to see happen," he continued. "So I really am curious about how they're going to respond to it. And I'm very nervous to find out."</p>
<p>Is there going to be a Squid Game spinoff?</p>
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<p>'Squid Game.'</p>
<p>Though the original Squid Game series is over, the franchise continues to expand.</p>
<p>There is a reality competition series, Squid Game: The Challenge, which has been renewed for a second season on Netflix, and the mobile game, Squid Game: Unleashed was released in December 2024.</p>
<p>According to Deadline, an English-language version of the Squid Game series is currently in development at Netflix, with director David Fincher attached.</p>
<p>For those who want to participate in the games themselves, there is also the immersive attraction, Squid Game: The Experience, in New York City.</p>
<p>Where can I watch Squid Game?</p>
<p>Netflix</p>
<p>'Squid Game.'</p>
<p>All three seasons of Squid Game are available to stream on Netflix.</p>
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