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Squid Game (Korean: 오징어 게임) is a South Korean dystopian survival thriller horror television series created, written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk for Netflix.The series revolves around a secret contest where 456 players, all of whom are in deep financial hardship, risk their lives to play a series of deadly children's games for the chance to win a ₩45.6 billion prize.
A content rating (also known as maturity rating) [1] [2] rates the suitability of TV shows, movies, comic books, or video games to this primary targeted audience. [3] [4] [5] A content rating usually places a media source into one of a number of different categories, to show which age group is suitable to view media and entertainment.
Squid Game remained the most-watched show according to Nielsen for the weeks starting October 4 and 11, 2021, [111] [112] but was ousted by You in the following week. [113] For four consecutive weeks, Squid Game remained as the most watched series on TV tracking service TV Time, where it also became the most followed Korean series to date. [114]
The second season is set three years after the first, and follows reigning champion Player 456 AKA Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) as he, once again, enters the Squid Game with the goal of taking down ...
Squid Game stalwart Seong Gi-hun tries to help them as well as "a young pregnant girl who hides her growing belly beneath her baggy tracksuit" and "a transgender ex-military officer hoping for a ...
No Korean content from Netflix has come close to Squid Game’s success. The streaming platform is actively searching for its successor, pumping as much as $2.5 billion into K-productions ...
Squid Game is also the first non-English television series to receive nominations [2] and to win the Primetime Emmy Awards. It received 14 nominations, winning 6 of them, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series, [ 3 ] and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. [ 4 ]
One of Squid Game's most prominent contestants is Seong Gi-hun, played by Lee Jung-jae, who has a gambling problem and thus needs the money to pay off his debt. He joins the other contestants on a ...