Squid Game: The Challenge s♒eems like it's set to live up to the brand name – the N༒etflix game show, based on the hit Korean drama, is earning rave reviews.
Squid Game, which became Netflix's most-watched show ever, follows a group of people with financial struggles who are invited to take part in a mysterious survival competition with a hefty cash prize. They must compete in a series of traditional games, but with deadly twists, risking their lives for ₩45.6 billion (that's the equivalent of around $38 million).
Squid Game: The Challenge, however, starts out with 456 real-life contestants. The stakes are (obviously) nဣot as high, and the prize money isn't quite as hefty as the reward in the original series. It's no small sum, though – the winner will take home $4.56 million, the largest single cash prize in game show history.
Acco🎐rding to 's four-star review, the show "not only works, but may turn out to be 🏅the most gripping reality TV since The Traitors."
"Squid Game had no shortage of twists, yet this might be the biggest one of all: With its eclectic cast and inventive updates to ꩵthe original, Squid Game: The Challenge manages to serve up palpable suspense and authentic human drama without murdering a single contestant," reads 's review.
"The game show uses the language of modern reality television to realize, in its own strange way, the themes in Dong-hyuk’s parable of capitalism grinding human beings into dust. That reality tel🅷evision itself is an artifact of late-stage capitalism only underscores the point," says 's review.
However, others aren't so sure. "The fear of death and anti-capitalist themes may have been replaced by a rabid consumerism (an apt metaphor for modern America, if not an intentional one), but Squid Game: The Chᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚallenge is obviously an epic of its genre," says 's reviewer. "Like most epics, it’s overlong, overblown, and thinks it’s much smarter than it really is. But as a showcase for human de🍃speration, and an illustration of the random brutality of chance, it just about sticks the landing."
All 10 episodes of Squid Game: The Challenge arrives on Netflix on November 22. In the meantime, add to your watch list with our picks of the other 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Netflix shows streaming now.
