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There is more than oneSquid Game.
), and will no doubt spark many industry conversations about what could be the nextSquid Game.
The first episode featuresa giant dollwith a rotating head and an inescapable, perpetually darting gaze.
He has a gambling problem.
His debt is enormous impossible to get out from underneath, and his creditors are closing in.
The winner becomes immensely wealthy; the losers die.
The connections to modern capitalism andthe desperation of financial inequalityis more explicit inSquid Gamethan in aHunger Gamestype setting.
The difference betweenSquid Gameand a post-apocalypse show, though, is where the emphasis falls.
What if only people with certain characteristics make it?
But theres an inherent optimism in watching people struggle to look ahead.
Its a form of social experiment that hopes the experiment succeeds.
Its hard to not think about apocalypse while watchingSquid Game.
AsSquid Games ending reaches for answers and for a future, it gets less surprising and less visually virtuosic.
All of that makesSquid Games life as a triumphant poster child for global cultural dominance pretty dark.
Thats pretty bleak, but thats also the waySquid Gamewould want it to be.
