Viewers may gasp, cringe or cry out watching characters die on Netflix's “Squid Game,” but those simulated deaths have a different effect on its creator, writer and director. Instead, Hwang Dong-hyuk feels happiness seeing them go.

The deaths of characters on Squid Game, Netflix's global sensation, have made viewers gasp, cringe, or cry. Yet, they have a rather different effect on one person. The show's creator, writer, and director,

Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, Lee Jung-jae and Lee Byung-hun talk about what it was like to play devil's advocate for Season 2