It's just a game. A phrase that gets pretty loaded, depending on the stakes of the game in question – maybe your chance at fame or fortune is on the line. Maybe even your life, depending on how dystopian the situation can be. This brings us to Squid Game: The Challengea season of television that hurts the brain to contemplate, because… well, it did anyone who participated in the creation of this show to really watch Squid game?
I'm not saying the series fails to capture the aesthetic or meaningful gameplay as depicted in the pop culture obsession of 2021 — but its existence is a shocking mistake that only makes sense if the producers involved in the creation The challenge they were completely oblivious to anything Squid game the show was trying to say. Did they just look at the Wikipedia entry, study some production photos? I like to believe in this theory, because it goes beyond belief in it Squid Game: The Challenge it was done that way on purpose, by people who watched the entire season and still thought this was a good idea. The last theory is such a bang.
For those who didn't tune in to the original broadcast, Squid game told the story of an underground competition in which 456 strangers in desperate need of money battled to win 45.6 billion won, mostly by surviving a series of children's games where the losers were quickly eliminated by firing squad. The violence was visceral and shocking: Dozens of players left bleeding on the ground during Red Light, Green Light's opening match, with armed guards shooting those who failed the Dalgona cookie challenge as soon as their cookie broke. The number of death was only matched by its randomness, ensuring that the tension was never let up in these eight episodes.
No blood to be seen Squid Game: The Challenge, Nevertheless. And its players (unlike those on the show) are all willing volunteers, wearing black ink packets around their necks that explode to simulate their untimely end as the game progresses. Because it is one gamebut incredibly confusing, played with pretend stakes but some real money on the table — not quite the big prize of the Korean original, but $4.56 million is still more than four times what a winner Survivor takes.
Even before reality shows like American Idol, Big Brotherand Survivor emerged in the early 2000s, the writers and directors had explored the idea of the modern Colosseum as seen on television: 1987 The Running Manbased on a story by Stephen King, stands out as a prime example of but basically science fiction like Doctor Who, Star Trekand The twilight zone he also played in this area decades before people encountered Ryan Seacrest or Jeff Probst.
The difference between these fantastic death games and Squid game is this technically, because the title game is conducted in secret, its players are only in it for the money. Meanwhile, the difference between Squid game And the real, non-lethal, reality pageants are that there is no chance of fame and fortune as a result of winning or even coming in second. (Since there are no runners-up.) Squid Game: The Challenge trying to operate somewhere in a cloudy middle ground. Not working.
