The # 1 show on Netflix is currently a Korean series with a strange name. Squid Game, which began airing on September 17, is a nine-part series about a world where children's games turn deadly. Squid Game is the first Korean drama to reach # 1 on Netflix, reaching the milestone just four days after its release. It is bloody and violent, but also addictive and very addictive. Here's what you need to know about this popular program. Warning: minor spoilers ahead, though I'm only going to explain the basics of the show, not who lives or who dies.
You’ll see some Hunger Games when you watch Squid Game, and there are some hostel flashbacks and other horror movies when a bunch of wealthy, masked VIPs come to gamble and cheer on the deaths. But Squid Game doesn’t feel like a copycat, it feels like a hit drama / horror series. Rich backstories are developed not only for desperate participants, but also for those who run the game. Don’t miss the final episode, which is a real roller coaster.
Why should you watch Squid Game?
Without a doubt, the show has a dark theme and blood splatters freely. Watching children’s games turn into deadly battles is puzzling and not for everyone. But the characters are well developed and the action moves fast and never goes away for long.
Main character Seong Gihun is a desperate father who is easy to get excited about, but not perfect. There is a heartbreaking episode in which his actions result in a painful loss. And he is not alone. Other participants include an elderly man who becomes the group’s grandfather, a North Korean refugee, a gangster with a snake tattoo on his face, and a highly educated man who has been the pride of his hometown but falls short. of its potential.
This sees more than half the competition — some 200-plus people — shot down, and “Squid Game” is hardly shy about showing viscera. The violence is at once eerily intimate and impersonal: While there’s a brutal frankness to the way the competitors’ lives are cut short, the shooters are masked game employees (or, in the case of Red Light, Green Light, a robotic doll). Death comes doled out by random functionaries, about whom we know significantly less than about the game’s players. What we gradually learn, through the device of a detective who’s broken into the system, is that they are utterly bought-in, obeying rules of their own and believing rigidly in a game they’ve worked to present with a certain baroque innocence.9/10. Definitely worth a watch!
