Among them is his childhood friend Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo), the bright kid who got out of the neighborhood, only to steal and embezzle, leaving him wanted and in debt. After accepting, Gi-hun is whisked (or rather, gassed and kidnapped) to a deserted island, where he awakes in a dormitory with 455 other players. More: 'Money Heist,' 'Lupin,' 'Unorthodox': How Netflix's non-English shows became global hitsĪfter a brutally bad day, Gi-hun is approached by a smartly dressed young man in the subway, who offers him a chance to win money by playing games. He's scraping by on the back of his elderly mother, whom he lives with while occasionally stealing her money. The protagonist is Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), a divorced father who's a bit of a degenerate and a gambler. There is a visceral, primal, can't-look-away feeling to the nine-episode series, which traffics in gore but also deep psychological horror and disturbances. So what it is about "Squid" (★★★½ out of four), that has so many people suctioned to their screens? Lee Jung-Jae plays Gi-hun, a down-on-his luck degenerate and gambler who gets tempted to play deadly children's games for millions, in Netflix's viral hit 'Squid Game.'
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It joins a recent list of successful foreign language series for Netflix stateside (including "Lupin" and "Money Heist") and will likely stay at the top of the pop-culture conversation as long as people keep telling their friends to watch. And that's what's happened with "Squid Game," which received virtually no press or marketing in the U.S. We may never have appointment television viewing like "Game of Thrones" again in the streaming era, but amid the proliferation of content, streaming or otherwise, a genuine word-of-mouth surprise can still surface. 1 show on the streamer in 70 countries, including the U.S., according to Netflix. 17 debut on the streaming service, it has become an online craze, sparking memes and fan theories and becoming the No. The biggest show on Netflix might just be a South Korean horror series with a cephalopod name and a violent, disturbing concept.īy now you've probably heard of "Squid Game," a dark social satire in which desperately impoverished people are enticed to compete in children's games with deadly stakes for the chance to win a life-changing cash prize.
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