According to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix’s Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk (Silenced) teased information on the second season and explained why the series will end with three seasons. At a For Your Consideration awards event for the new season in Los Angeles on Sunday, alongside series star Lee Jung-jae (Hunt), Hwang spoke about his approach in the latest season

“Of course I felt a certain amount of pressure because I knew that there was a huge amount of anticipation out there, and honestly when I was creating season one I didn’t plan in any detail that there would be a second season,” Hwang told The Hollywood Reporter. “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; I thought it would be the story of Gi-hun turning away from where he was at the end of season one and going back into the games in order to put a stop to the game,” noting that “throughout seasons two and three, it’s going to be about that very journey by Gi-hun that you’re going to be following, both physically and emotionally.”

When getting the script for the second season Lee said, “I didn’t think that he would write it that fast, I really doubted he could do that. And when I actually read them I thought, ‘This is immaculate, there’s absolutely nothing that needs to be changed.’ It was so well-written and I was just in awe of this talent thinking, ‘This man’s a genius.’”

As per The Hollywood Reporter, during the screening of the first episode of the second season, Hwang explained that Lee’s character “has just been broken” by his time in the game, saying, “Gi-hun has experienced too many things, witnessed too many deaths, for him to return to the way it was before, no matter how hard he tries.” Lee confirmed, “The way you see Gi-hun in season one and the state that you see him in in season two are very different.”

The second season of Squid Game will stream on Netflix on December 26.