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- 2023
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2023
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Summary The reality competitive series based on the series Squid Game features 456 contestants competing to possibly win $4.56 million.
- 2023
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2023
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Squid Game: The Challenge
Season 1 Premiere: Nov 22, 2023
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2.5
Summary The reality competitive series based on the series Squid Game features 456 contestants competing to possibly win $4.56 million.
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With its eclectic cast and inventive updates to the original, Squid Game: The Challenge manages to serve up palpable suspense and authentic human drama without murdering a single contestant.
With money at stake, rather than life itself, some of the cooped-up politicking in the middle episodes smacks wearily of Big Brother. Other passages of play lean too heavily on popularity contests. But by the final few episodes the tension, intrigue and antagonism are bubbling to the boil. I’ve seen eight of the ten episodes and am agog to discover how ruthless the last dollar-driven survivors can be.
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i lost, im very mad because they shot me!! this is violence and i do not approve wish i got the money, my family would bathe in gold plating
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Along with the usual tension of the ticking clock, the tough task, the difficult decision — all very effective — participants are made uncomfortable on a moral level; one might be called upon to choose between acting nobly and metaphorically assassinating a competitor, in front of the crowd. They may be forced to face themselves. It’s clever that way. .... But in “Squid Game: The Challenge,” the only audience is, you know, the audience, make of us what you will.
The challenges are padded out with interviews, reaction shots, and dramatic pauses that go on long after all the tension has been released. Ultimately, these are squib games that provide enough noise and motion for a passable simulacrum of the original show’s devastating drama.
You’re better off watching Squid Game again than watching the cynical, depressing mess that is Squid Game: The Challenge.
In pretending that the stakes are much higher than they actually are, the entire enterprise feels trivialized.
Although it gestures at some of the more complicated questions lurking beneath its existence, this is merely lip service without any real care or substance. All the gimmicks it throws in at the margins can't hide how morally bankrupt it is at its core. When we look back on the rise of streaming, Squid Game: The Challenge will be the show that saw the fires of hell and decided to find an even more craven low.
If future civilisations wants to know why the current one is so doomed they need only watch this. I hope Spencer has found some peace.
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They took everything that made Squid Games great and got rid of it. The only thing carried over from the original is its name, "Squid Games." Imagine taking 007/James Bond franchise, removing everything about the franchise except the name. Then you put two groups of people together on a beach. The new show's premise is to see which team can throw sand into the eyes of every player on the opposing. Throw in some interviews. Reset the teams whenever one side loses 50% of its players. Rinse and repeat until there is only 1 player left. Oh yeah, everyone is competing for the prize money. How much you ask? It doesn't matter because it's not 007/James Bond.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Wow this british people SURELY HAVE A VERY GOOD TIME DOING THIS CRAP.
There's zero suspense. Everyone looks so happy, fearless like in a god dm picnic. It's nauseating. It's ****...pathetic.
And worst...they mix it with BIG BROTHER reality show shows, only 1 character in a chair talking s**** about their experience. WOW....
I won't waste my time watching all this chapter, I'm not stupid, it's really BAD........
And they don't have the BA***Z to kill the characters! they shoot GOTCHA BLACK BULLETS TO "KILL **** they just fall like scared goats......they are not even **** will lose tons of subs for this **** are really making s******* decisions these days...
Rant over bye. Stay away of this crap.
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Production Company:
- Studio Lambert
- The Garden
Initial Release Date: Nov 22, 2023
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
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