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Netflix's New K-Thriller "Squid Game" Everybody talks about this new series called "Squid Game" on Netflix. All my friends and family comment on how disturbing and fascinating this series is and I couldn't wait to watch it asap. The premise is like a game show turned fatal, with contestants playing a series of children's games where they get murdered if they lose. It is pretty much immediately made clear that this show involves plenty of violence but it makes the characters count. Squid Game marks its own territory because it's savage with the constant tension around life or death scenarios but especially by focusing on each character's decisions, as they struggle to choose between survival and humanity. I really like this series because, despite the initial absurdity of the stylized survival games, the show seems to have been designed to show that our present reality can be just as hellish as any imagined world: cultural context, motivation...