The Netflix series ‘Squid Game’ is which is based on a deadly survival game based on kids’ games has become the streaming’s most-watched show ever.
The series is messed up at so many levels yet it’s worth a binge-watch. From updates on its sequel to the bizarre concept, here is everything one must know about the global hit series.
The concept
Squid Game is a survival thriller set in modern-day Seoul, where destitute people are lured into playing simple children’s games to win money — or die trying. Tightly crafted, the show is although profoundly disturbing based on nine episodes.
Squid Game is not only topping the charts at Netflix, it’s also the most talked-about show across rival streaming platforms Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, and HBO Max.
Mastermind behind the series
Behind Squid Game’s sudden success is Bela Bajaria. For her, the goal is to work with local creators to tell a story as authentically as possible.
Is Squid Game a real game?
Obviously, there’s no deadly Squid Game tournament, where people are killed playing innocent children’s games. However, the title refers to one specific game that gets its name from a court shaped vaguely like a squid.
Why everyone’s obsessed?
If you’ve already watched the series then you know ‘Squid Game’, is a dark social satire in which desperately impoverished people are enticed to compete a game to win money as a prize.
The series is certainly disturbing, although its violence and gore never reach the bloody levels of ‘The Walking Dead’, instead of relying on an insidious psychological horror that wraps its tentacles around you.
Global fame
After Gangnam Style, K-pop sensation BTS and Oscar-winning film Parasite, Squid Game is becoming Netflix’s most popular show ever. The show is now expected to be seen by more than 82 million subscribers worldwide in its first 28 days.
Since its mid-September release, the series has been deployed as a metaphor by likely contenders in next March’s presidential election to attack each other, while the public has used the show to talk about a brewing scandal around how a son of a well-connected politician came into a significant amount of money.
Season 2 of Squid Game
Following the success of the nine-part series, season two of ‘Squid Game’ is in the works, and Netflix has said it plans to invest $500 million on original movies and TV shows this year in South Korea, one of Asia’s fastest-growing markets.
There are the top three theories that can happen in Squid Game season 2, according to Kayti Burt:
First, with the open-ended epilogue, we can expect that season 2 will evolve with the continuation of player 456’s story. Seong Gi-hun will go after the people behind the games to avenge all the people who died.
Second, it was revealed in season 1 that the Squid Game existed and conducted these games for decades. Hence, we can also guess a plot that evolves the stories of the past players of these horrendous games.
Third, it was also mentioned in season 1 that the game in Korea was the best this year. The V.I.P.s, who have different accents, implying different nationalities, come personally to these games to watch and enjoy.
