Squid Game the challenge on Netflix: rules, episodes, do you die?

AND on Netflix Squid Game, the challenge. The successful Korean series released two years ago is reproduced in a reality show version. Here 456 competitors have to pass various testsespecially the games we played as children, to win a dream prize pool: 456 million dollars.

Squid Game, the challenge: how it works and rules

The mechanism is the same as series, a great success two years ago (of which the second season will be released). Competitors must pass a series of tests inspired by backyard competitions, from “One, two, three stars” in “Naval Battle”. In addition to the games, tests are introduced, which measure the character and resistance of men and women. But if in fiction you risked your life by losing, obviously this doesn’t happen here.

You die with an ink stain on your chest, sepia style. The competitors have different ages, nationalities and social backgrounds. Some are in kinship relationships, for example there is a mother and a child, others will develop new relationships. Everyone wears a green suit and is identified with a number. The guardians are dressed like those from the fiction series: shocking pink jumpsuit and metal mask. The players talk about their experience, where they come from, what they expect, in a sort of confessional style Island of the famous.

Squid Game, the challenge: the 10 episodes

In the first episode, Red Light, Green Light, the 456 players they measure themselves with an immense One, two, three stars commanded by a giant doll, which took three months of work to create and animate. In the first round, 259 competitors are eliminated. In the second episode, The man with the umbrellayou gamble your “life” by carving into a biscuit a shape with a needle, without breaking the biscuit. Here it is interesting to see how the dynamics work between the players: the four team leaders argue so that their team is assigned the simplest form. The first four chosen will be eliminated because they cannot agree.

In the third episode, War, naval battle is played. Number four is Nowhere to hidethe 5th is titled trick or treat. The first five episodes were released on November 22. The other four will be released on November 29th: Goodbye, Friend or foe A step forwardAnd Circle of trust. The grand finale, the last episode, will be released on December 6th and has the title A lucky day.

The curiosities of the Challenge

The series was filmed in Great Britain between London and Bedford. Six communicating sets were set up in which the players moved, forced to remain in the complex until elimination. The transparent sphere containing the prize money, which filled up more and more with each elimination, ultimately weighed 800 kilos

The bunk beds in the mega dormitory were custom made. The bathroom tiles were also made ad hoc. In the first episode of the series the director appears for a few seconds Hwang Dong Hyuk, the creator of the original series. She is a guard who puts on her mask. The overseers are played by actors who have learned precise choreography in order to better interact with the players and move in unison.

Squid Game, the challenge: review

«In the game, we will see the best and worst of the participants», the trailer prepares us. «You can put on all the masks but your nature comes out». “I look around and I see money, not people: every man and every woman is worth 10 thousand dollars to me,” says one of the competitors. This is the point of the game. The competition is heavy and ignites rivalries, alliances, mistrust. Someone plays dirty and carries out small cheats. Just like it happens in life.

Reality is appreciated the beautiful scenography, reminiscent of video game graphics, and also the editing, perfect. During the competitions everything is very colourful, when the competitors return to the environment in which they live, a mega dormitory, the shades of gray dominate. The choice of music is also excellent. classic pieces perfectly placed at key moments.

That what is jarring is that elimination is treated with the same drama as death, and all the pathos seems a bit exaggerated. Another flaw, the banality of some confessional dialogues: the woman who says «I miss my son, I even dreamed about him last night” It’s a cloying thread.

There are several interesting aspects: Squid Game: the challenge, to be watched possibly in the original language, it appears as a sort of metaphor for life. Where money, that large full transparent sphere that looms over the test of competitors, moves everything. And it reveals various aspects of men and women, even the least reassuring.

It’s an entertaining series that you enjoy watching. As often happens, over time you end up becoming fond of the various players, who at a certain point become characters. And we can’t wait to see the new episodes and understand how it ends.

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