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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.
Season 1 of Squid Game — the South Korean dystopian-action-thriller-genre-buster that produced a mound of bullet-ridden corpses and became a global phenomenon — was essentially about following ...
Squid Game remained the most-watched show according to Nielsen for the weeks starting October 4 and 11, 2021, [108] [109] but was ousted by You in the following week. [110] 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. [111]
Of course, they play Squid Game, a physical schoolyard contest. Gi-hun bests Sang-woo but cannot kill him, nor let him be killed by the game "soldiers." He tries to end the games and forfeit the ...
When Squid Game hit our screens back in 2021, it did so without fanfare or ado – a blood-soaked bolt from the blue that set a new benchmark for TV.Within weeks of its release on Netflix, it ...
Hwang Dong-hyuk (Korean: 황동혁; Hanja: 黃東赫; born May 26, 1971) is a South Korean film director, producer and screenwriter best known for creating the Netflix survival drama series Squid Game. He conceived of the idea for Squid Game based on his own economic struggles early in life as well as the class disparity found within South Korea.
The second season of the South Korean dystopian survival thriller horror television series Squid Game, marketed as Squid Game 2, was created for television by Korean writer and television producer Hwang Dong-hyuk. Produced by Netflix, it was released on December 26, 2024.
Squid Game: The Challenge awarded players $4.56 million—and even that amount was a big deal. Luckily, all those real-life contestants just had to pretend they were killed during the trials.