‘Squid Game: Fight’ (Netflix, as of Wednesday the 22nd) is better than it deserves. After all, we are talking about something A clear attempt to exploit the South Korea phenomenon series until the arrival of the long-awaited second season. What was that brutal anti-capitalist fiction Now a competitive reality show in which people are encouraged to be as economical as possible. It sounds inappropriate, and perhaps it is, but it is equally true that the (social) experiment worked perfectly: best reality televisionIt’s a harrowing series that invites us to think about karma while chaining together addictive scenarios and clever plot twists.
This production, produced by British companies Studio Lambert (one of the controversial ‘Naked Glamor’, dating show using naked bodies as bait) and The Garden, 456 people compete for at least one trophy $4.56 millionthe biggest trophy ever won on a reality show.
The images of the series are completely faithful. Each contestant wears an outfit. numbered green tracksuit and sitting on a bed in a huge bedroom bunk beds almost ten meters high. There is giant piñata filled with bills (more and more). Players can load these to progress from one challenge to the next Colorful mixed stairs in Escher style. And of course there is no shortage Mechanical doll from ‘Green Light, Red Light’. One small detail, unlike the series, is that no one dies: the losers of that fatal ‘British chick’ fall to the ground in a theatrical move after a bag of ink explodes under their clothes.
Many other games are familiar (from cutting shapes out of cookies to playing bitter marbles), but new ones are being added, and that’s the name of the competition. ‘character tests’ are more psychological than physical and is located in the aforementioned master bedroom. Tests that, as the show says, “force you to make decisions you wouldn’t normally make.” Psychological torture is important.
interesting characters
Also, as in the series or any version of ‘Big Brother’, we soon started participating in this event. alliance development and debugging strategies. Although hundreds of contestants may seem like a lot, the producers easy to follow stories and so we can quickly get to know the key players well, partly through interviews interspersed with the action.
It’s impossible not to take sides, compare ourselves, or slowly want to move away from someone we know deep down we are perhaps similar to. One of the most controversial players is Bryton, number 432, a student from Clemson (South Carolina), who emerged as the leader of a group whose main attribute is physical strength. Without going into too much detail, let’s just say that, according to LeAnn Wilcox, a former editor of the New York Times who is more interested in kindness and empathy, these aren’t all that funny. He came to the contest with his son Trey, perhaps the oldest of the players who, like Rick, 69, is considered a public favorite. The human landscape is diverse and includes everything from LGBTIQ+ representation to a young woman with a hearing problem.
Argument
We said before, in this case no one dies. However, last January, some former contestants commented to tabloid ‘The Sun’ that they were treated like animals and tortured, particularly during the aforementioned ‘Green light, red light’ test, which forced them to stand still for hours in arctic temperatures. Apparently, the temperature reached three degrees below zero during filming in a former RAF (British Royal Air Force) hangar. “It was like a war zone,” they complained. “Some were finally crawling. At least one was taken out on a stretcher.”
However, Netflix and the producers denied any wrongdoing in a statement published by ‘Variety’: “Although it was very cold on set and participants were warned about this, any claims of serious harm are false.” Creator of ‘Squid Game’ Hwang Dong-hyuk, gave ‘authenticity’ his seal of approval and seems grateful for the attention to detail in recreating the original universe. He’s even jealous of some new scripts, as seen in a Netflix trailer. The effect can be back and forth.
Some Squid Game exciting events will be more challenging than others. The first group, which is the only episode we have access to, consists of five and six episodes that will be released all at once on Wednesday, the 22nd; We’ll have to wait until next Wednesday to see the next four, and the grand finale can be seen on December 6. For second season of mother series We will have to wait even longer: has only been filming since last JulyIt will arrive at the end of 2024 at the earliest. It’s time to sharpen those needles.