The director and writer always stated that Squid Game was meant for one season. That’s all he wrote it for, when it became a success Netflix went to him for more, he wasn’t too thrilled but obliged and in the process it effected his health because in his mind he probably didn’t feel like he could top the first. You can clearly tell after season 2 that 3 is where it will end at least for GI Hun character and I wouldn’t be suprised that in typical movie fashion we may end up with a prequel 5 years down the line where we follow the Front Man’s game back in 2015, that’s assuming the old man is still around in real life to do that role again.
They are not splitting anything. You will get a second and third season. They are reducing the episode count. They release all the episodes of a season at once so releasing 4, 6, or 8 episodes makes no difference as they will release a new show the following week. Making more episodes just increases the production costs. The bigger question is why Netflix are so happy to cut Squid Game after only three seasons? It might be because they are dabbling with an English language reboot.
And also you could see the budget starting to strain as the season went on. I've always said that 20 is great for a half hour comedy, or something procedural without any vfx or high budget set pieces. But for the shows that do have that, around 13 episode is what I've always found preferable. With that amount they just have a better balance of story length and budget management.
Netflix have definitely been cutting the episode numbers on their TV shows. 4-6 are the new standard for foreign language shows with 6-8 for English language shows. A lot of the newer shows are looking at these sort of numbers. Seems even a monster hit like Squid Game is not immune to a bit of cost cutting as Netflix flip focus from growth to profitability.
Sometimes "movie magic" is doing more with less. The look of the show is also only part of it. It depends a lot on what you are actually trying to do on the screen, some sets take more time to setup than others, have more sets adds complexity, having changing sets adds complexity, having lots more people adds complexity, having heavy VFX requirements adds complexity in setting up scenes to make work easier later. Complexity while shooting can also add complexity while planning as you have to figure out a lot more of the logistics.
...until they ran out of budget halfway through the season, the Cylons disappear, and suddenly it's a bunch of episodes about unions, boxing, the local bar, a racist doctor, and the black market.
Those TV shows were easier to make. Premium cable TV was always more like 8-12 episodes (e.g. Starz, HBO, Showtime). Complexity is why 1.5-2.5 hour movies usually longer to make than 1.5-2.5 hours of TV
One of the charms of a 20 episode season is the need to develop characters and do bottle episodes. I'm so exhausted by 7 episode prestige TV that never has room for anything but plot advancing shenanigans. We always talk about all the ways necessity made for great films and TV shows. Weak cgi and a glitch prop? Jurrasic Park was better for it. Can't have a full scale war every episode? Almost every a sci fi tv show was better for it. Bottle episodes were often among the most memorable ones from older shows. Now evennif you wanted to develop characters better the entire system wants 7 or 8 episodes so you don't even have time. Rings of Power spent more than anyone and only did 8 episodes and the writing put me to sleep. I think we could use some of that necessity of the past.
It doesn't even make sense. They already greenlit Season 2 and 3, so they're not going to cancel Squid Game after S2. How is splitting seasons any more profitable than having the seasons run through? Especially considering Netflix makes money per month subscribed, so people who specifically sub to watch this show will spend about the same amount of time subscribed in total anyway.
My guess is quarter performance. Stocks value goes up and down. Netflix doesn’t want to give away all of them in one go. They want sustainability in stock price. So December performance would be great for them this year. They will decide about next year when to release it base on other factors such as when other shows are being released.
I was thinking make a manga or an anime based on the 1900 because this show timeline is from the 90 to 2015 I was thinking the year 2015 when the frontman was a player
"too many episodes" Season 2 will be 8 and 3 will be 7... edit: my comment was a sarcastic joke about how they called it too many episodes and yet both season will end up being single digit seasons. I didn't know the episode count when i made it, i was making, what i thought would be an exaggerated joke about what netflix thinks is too many episodes but it looks like is their new number lol.
Fair. I’ve actually been fortunate enough to see the original Broadway production twice (long story). It’s just strange considering I recently saw Death Becomes Her which did a very good job of taking the movie and translating it into a very funny and fun Musical, all while being much closer in run time (but definitely losing one or two of those “visual storytelling” moments you mentioned… but much fewer than I would have expected).
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I remember when we used to get 20 episode seasons.
Each episode is 1hr 30min it’s 9hrs of runtime I think and usually 20 ep seasons are 25 min long
Did those have one hour runtime for each episode?
@@RealnessRantsKorean Shows, yes.
No commercials as well. Also the cost of tv show this day are astronomical.
The show This Is Us is 6 seasons of 20 + episodes that are each about an hour long. 🤷🏽
The director and writer always stated that Squid Game was meant for one season. That’s all he wrote it for, when it became a success Netflix went to him for more, he wasn’t too thrilled but obliged and in the process it effected his health because in his mind he probably didn’t feel like he could top the first. You can clearly tell after season 2 that 3 is where it will end at least for GI Hun character and I wouldn’t be suprised that in typical movie fashion we may end up with a prequel 5 years down the line where we follow the Front Man’s game back in 2015, that’s assuming the old man is still around in real life to do that role again.
They are not splitting anything. You will get a second and third season. They are reducing the episode count. They release all the episodes of a season at once so releasing 4, 6, or 8 episodes makes no difference as they will release a new show the following week. Making more episodes just increases the production costs.
The bigger question is why Netflix are so happy to cut Squid Game after only three seasons? It might be because they are dabbling with an English language reboot.
we used to get 12 episodes a season for premium quality tv…we’ve lost the way
And typical Korean dramas are between 12-16 episodes.
So, this is all on netflix
Bruh😊
For all the hype for the follow-up, I'm not expecting much anymore.
The streaming era length of time between "seasons" is a killer.
Did all episodes have mid-credit scenes? Or just the last one?
Only the last one. Netflix won’t recommend you to skip to the next episode if the current one still has scenes to show.
And also you could see the budget starting to strain as the season went on.
I've always said that 20 is great for a half hour comedy, or something procedural without any vfx or high budget set pieces. But for the shows that do have that, around 13 episode is what I've always found preferable. With that amount they just have a better balance of story length and budget management.
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True at all
You don’t know what you are talking about
I wanna see a squid game prequel that shows the fidst edition of sauid games
Netflix have definitely been cutting the episode numbers on their TV shows. 4-6 are the new standard for foreign language shows with 6-8 for English language shows. A lot of the newer shows are looking at these sort of numbers. Seems even a monster hit like Squid Game is not immune to a bit of cost cutting as Netflix flip focus from growth to profitability.
Sometimes "movie magic" is doing more with less. The look of the show is also only part of it. It depends a lot on what you are actually trying to do on the screen, some sets take more time to setup than others, have more sets adds complexity, having changing sets adds complexity, having lots more people adds complexity, having heavy VFX requirements adds complexity in setting up scenes to make work easier later. Complexity while shooting can also add complexity while planning as you have to figure out a lot more of the logistics.
...until they ran out of budget halfway through the season, the Cylons disappear, and suddenly it's a bunch of episodes about unions, boxing, the local bar, a racist doctor, and the black market.
tf is this dude talking about
@HURRIC4NEythimself
Those TV shows were easier to make. Premium cable TV was always more like 8-12 episodes (e.g. Starz, HBO, Showtime). Complexity is why 1.5-2.5 hour movies usually longer to make than 1.5-2.5 hours of TV
One of the charms of a 20 episode season is the need to develop characters and do bottle episodes. I'm so exhausted by 7 episode prestige TV that never has room for anything but plot advancing shenanigans.
We always talk about all the ways necessity made for great films and TV shows. Weak cgi and a glitch prop? Jurrasic Park was better for it. Can't have a full scale war every episode? Almost every a sci fi tv show was better for it.
Bottle episodes were often among the most memorable ones from older shows. Now evennif you wanted to develop characters better the entire system wants 7 or 8 episodes so you don't even have time.
Rings of Power spent more than anyone and only did 8 episodes and the writing put me to sleep. I think we could use some of that necessity of the past.
It doesn't even make sense.
They already greenlit Season 2 and 3, so they're not going to cancel Squid Game after S2. How is splitting seasons any more profitable than having the seasons run through? Especially considering Netflix makes money per month subscribed, so people who specifically sub to watch this show will spend about the same amount of time subscribed in total anyway.
My guess is quarter performance. Stocks value goes up and down. Netflix doesn’t want to give away all of them in one go. They want sustainability in stock price. So December performance would be great for them this year. They will decide about next year when to release it base on other factors such as when other shows are being released.
They should definitely make it into an anime after s3
With a whole new cast
I was thinking make a manga or an anime based on the 1900 because this show timeline is from the 90 to 2015 I was thinking the year 2015 when the frontman was a player
If we’re not getting more season we could at least get a manga or an anime based on this show maybe not canon or canon whatever
I hope the story line on season 3 not similar with hunger games,
Because season 1 and 2 are same with hunger games concept
"too many episodes"
Season 2 will be 8 and 3 will be 7...
edit: my comment was a sarcastic joke about how they called it too many episodes and yet both season will end up being single digit seasons. I didn't know the episode count when i made it, i was making, what i thought would be an exaggerated joke about what netflix thinks is too many episodes but it looks like is their new number lol.
Fair. I’ve actually been fortunate enough to see the original Broadway production twice (long story).
It’s just strange considering I recently saw Death Becomes Her which did a very good job of taking the movie and translating it into a very funny and fun Musical, all while being much closer in run time (but definitely losing one or two of those “visual storytelling” moments you mentioned… but much fewer than I would have expected).
Click bait 😅
And?
And typical Korean dramas are between 12-16 episodes.
So, this is all on netflix