Squid Game, Netflix's latest popular drama from Korea, has been hanging in the top 10 most-watched shows in the globe since it was launched on Friday, and it currently maintains the #1 place. Are you curious as to why everyone is so engrossed?
Squid Game, Netflix's latest popular drama from Korea, has been hanging in the top 10 most-watched shows in the globe since it was launched on Friday, and it currently maintains the #1 place. Are you curious as to why everyone is so engrossed?
Squid Game begins with Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), a middle-aged divorcee who seldom sees his daughter and has fallen into severe debt with a band of cruel loan sharks. When he encounters a strange stranger at a train station after a horrible day, he is given a chance to win a vast (but secret) sum of money that would alter his life forever.
Gi-hun is picked up in a people carrier and put to sleep by gas poured into the passenger seats after calling the shadowy organisation the guy belongs to and telling them he wants to play their game. When he wakes up, he is dressed in a numbered tracksuit and is in a warehouse-style dormitory with hundreds of other individuals.
They quickly discover that to win the money, they must participate in a series of childhood games. Those who do not win will be "eliminated," which is a euphemism for "killed" by the hooded guys in authority.
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The show's idea is so beautifully insane that it's difficult to resist watching the first episode to see how it plays out. Before you know it, you've been drawn into a world of contrasts: the dismal, dark outside world and the brilliant, sanitised expanse within the game; the naivety of children's games with the weapons and gushing blood they generate when a bullet is shot through a player's skull.
It's rather horrific at times, with vivid images of dissection and murder shown in all their squirmy splendour. Squid Game is not for the faint of heart, but those who can handle a little gore will find much to love.
People continue to watch the show because the characters are complex, intriguing, and in every instance – even the evil guys – completely captivating. Along with Gi-hun, there's his boyhood buddy and resident brainiac Cho Sang-Woo (Park Hae-Soo), an elderly guy, Oh Il-Nam or Player 001 (Oh Young-Soo), who suffers from dementia, and Kang Sae-Byeok, a casual, gloomy North Korean defector (Jung Ho-Yeon).
As the games go, you get connected to certain characters while rooting for the destruction of others.
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