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With a demented twist on childhood games, “Squid Game” follows 456 participants in South Korea who accept a mysterious invitation for the chance to win $45.6 billion won (roughly just over $31 ...
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.
When Squid Game first arrived on our screens in September 2021, it very quickly took the world by storm. Within just four weeks, the blood-soaked dystopian survival series had racked up 1.65 ...
Squid Game remained the most-watched show according to Nielsen for the weeks starting October 4 and 11, 2021, [157] [158] but was ousted by You in the following week. [159] 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. [160]
Ji-yeong first appeared in the first season of Squid Game as one of 456 participants in a secret series of life-or-death games, with a grand prize of 456 billion won. Before the events of the series, she suffered physical and sexual abuse by her priest father, who also eventually killed her mother, causing her to kill him in turn.
In the final game of season 1, childhood friends Gi-hun and Sang-woo face off in the titular Squid Game — their once-close bond shattered by the brutality of the competition.
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 ...
Cho Hyun-ju (Korean: 조현주), also known as Player 120, is a character in the second season of South Korean Netflix drama Squid Game.In the series, she is a highly skilled and highly trained ex-Special Forces soldier until she was discharged after coming out as a trans woman, further losing family support and employment.