At this point, if you haven’t heard of “Squid Game,” you must live under a rock. And if you haven’t watched “Squid Game,” you must never crumble under peer pressure — but still, you should watch it.
The basic premise of the show is that rich people take advantage of the poor. Another bad but efficient summary is rich people lure people who are in desperate need of money into playing children’s games for billions of dollars.
Either way you put it, I wasn’t prepared (nobody was) for what happened in the first episode. But despite the events of the first episode, I was hooked, and so were 111 million other people.
“Squid Game” has recently reached a new record, making it the most popular show on Netflix — no one is surprised. Once the show was released, the memes, the theories, and the increased demand for dalgona, it’s impossible to escape its influence. Before “Squid Game” earned (then broke) the record, “Bridgerton” held it, so it’s safe to say we never know what the fans will like, but it will be a quality show.
Since the success of the show, the actors have been doing many interviews for multiple countries. Recently, you can see Lee Jung-Jae, Park Hae-Soo, Wi Ha-Joon and Jung Ho-Yeon talk about the show on Jimmy Fallon where they talk about the doll scene (the doll is commonly seen in Korea by children) in the first episode “Red Light, Green Light.”
Many have called the show an extreme take on modern capitalist society whereas other outlets are calling it a “dystopian” or even “escapist.”
I don’t want to spoil anything, but the show is swimming in metaphors underneath its drama-suspense-action storyline. Trust the hype on this one, “Squid Game” is worth watching.
