“A story of people who fail at life for various reasons, but suddenly receive a mysterious invitation to participate in a survival game to win more than 38 million US dollars,” reads the synopsis for season one of theNetflixshow. “The game takes place on an isolated island and the participants are locked up until there is a final winner.”
Check out the trailer forSquid Game: The Challengebelow!
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“Squid Gamehad no shortage of twists, yet this might be the biggest one of all: With its eclectic cast and inventive updates to the original,Squid Game: The Challengemanages to serve up palpable suspense and authentic human drama without murdering a single contestant,”reads the reviewfrom Entertainment Weekly.
“The game show uses the language of modern reality television to realise, in its own strange way, the themes in Dong-hyuk’s parable of capitalism grinding human beings into dust. That reality television itself is an artefact of late-stage capitalism only underscores the point,”saysthe Vulture.
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As for Rotten Tomatoes, the score forSquid Game: The Challengeis somewhat underwhelming with acritic scoreof just 67%. However, that score will no doubt change in the coming days especially with the arrival of the audience reviews.
Squid Game: The Challengeairs tomorrow on Netflix with all 10 episodes available from the get-go.
Topics:TV And Film,Netflix
