Squid Game- Takeshi’s Castle But With a Dark Twist

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In most parts of the globe, money equals life. People living in capitalist nations are obliged to organize their lives keeping in mind their capacity to generate money. How can they turn their abilities into profit? Which career has the highest earning potential? Everyone has at some point thought about what they are ready to do, and how desperate they are. It is therefore evident that one might be ready to undergo bodily damage and great danger in return of never again having to bother stressing about money and calculating the cash in their pockets.

This idea is played by the new Netflix hit series Squid Game with a dark touch to it. It begins by giving a desperate person the opportunity to play games and to gamble for the result. As the story develops, many more are promised an uncompromising competition and encouraged to play the games to win the levels with the lure of a lump sum in the end.

Although the entirety of the pilot episode was delightfully interesting (if a little jarring at points), it was the abrupt ending of the first episode and the twists and turns of the second episode (and beyond) that got me hooked to the show. The series is currently the number one show on Netflix in the United States.

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