![]() Squid Game has well and truly become a part of the cultural zeitgeist. Not only does the show have a 100 percent approval rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, it has also inspired online merchandise, spawned TikTok challenges, and memes. This premise, coupled with some really interesting characters, results in a perfect storm of revulsion and fascination that is impossible to look away from. This is juxtaposed against a series of simple childhood games like Tug-of-War, Red Light – Green Light, carried out in pastel-coloured playrooms. Written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, the show examines despair, greed, and a yawning gap between the haves and the have-nots. The nine-part Netflix Original revolves around a group of financially distressed people from all walks of life who sign up for a blood n’ gore race with an unimaginably large cash pay-out. In the three weeks since its low-key worldwide release, the gritty, grim, and gruesome drama has become Netflix’s ‘biggest show ever’ with over a 100 million households having consumed it so far. Two years later, Squid Game, the ultraviolent South Korean show is the ‘it’ series around the world. While accepting one of the many, many awards the film Parasite won, South Korean director Bong Joon-ho asked viewers across the world to overcome the ‘one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles’.
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