Here’s the plot: Economically desperate South Koreans agree to be imprisoned in a remote, bizarre arena where they compete in adult versions of children’s games whose losers are slaughtered.
And that terrifies me.Ī Korean-language production awash in blood, “Squid Game” is less a feat of ingenious storytelling - though there are some deft touches and inspired wrinkles - than a gory riff on a familiar formula, a hyperviolent “Hunger Games” with an immeasurably darker view of the world. Are there teenagers or young adults in your life? Ask them about “Squid Game.” They’ve probably watched it. That’s not even the most disturbing image in the nine episodes of “Squid Game.” And the show, which began streaming on Netflix last month, has apparently been the service’s biggest debut ever. It’s cremation for the person regardless.
Its fingers crawl out of a gap between the lid and the rest of the box. At the beginning of the second episode of the dystopian fantasy “Squid Game,” anonymous villains load the boxed corpses of hundreds of contestants who’ve been gunned down for their failures into incinerators.