“Squid Game” was a 2021 television sensation, a “twisted Korean thriller about desperate contestants trapped in a life-and-death game show”.
As Nick Hilton clarifies in The Independent: “To understand ‘Squid Game: The Challenge’, you first need to understand ‘Squid Game’.”
In the original South Korean drama, entrants joined a collection of fatal re-imaginings of youth video games, which either eliminate them or lug them closer to a pot of 45.6 billion South Korean won (around ₤ 28 million). “As social commentary goes, it was an incredibly heavy-handed critique of the country’s issues with income inequality; as a sickly compulsive viewing experience, it was unparalleled,” claimedHilton