I’m So Glad ‘Squid Game’ Is Ending After Season 3, and Streamers Need To Take Note

Squid Gamecreator Hwang Dong-hyuk announced at the beginning of the year that Season 3 of the hit Netflix series would be its last. "The fierce clash between [Gi-hun and Front Man's] two worlds will continue into the series finale with Season 3, which will be brought to you next year," he wrote in a letter to fans following the end of Season 2. While many see their favorite show ending as a disappointment, I feel like this is a great announcement, as it allows Squid Game to go out on a high note. On top of that, it shows Netflix and other streamers that it's perfectly fine to end a television series at a certain point in time. Yes, I understand that streamers, and especially Netflix have a reputation for canceling shows before they could fully take off — I still mourn Sense8to this day. While I do get that some shows are so amazing that you'd want them to go on forever, shows never stay at the same quality level for an untold number of seasons. With the landscape of television changing and television production changing with it, having a set number of seasons from the beginning means that streamers can turn out some quality programming andavoid disappointing fans.