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- Netflix
- Sep 17, 2021
- Netflix
- Sep 17, 2021
- Netflix
- Sep 17, 2021
- Netflix
- Sep 17, 2021
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
69
85% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
8% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 Critic Reviews
69
85% Positive
11 Reviews
11 Reviews
8% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
8% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Hwang knows how much convincing he needs to do to bring his viewers on board with the premise; unlike the cop, the audience will buy into “Squid Game’s” world without a fuss, a credit to Hwang’s skills as a filmmaker and writer. Forget the negative connotations the phrase “bingeworthy” stirs up. In the binge era, this show is as good as they come.
Hwang and his team take immense care with all of the players, laying out how they’re stuck in a horrible system, and just trying to make it through, at any cost. Squid Game is exciting, and startling, and tense, but that care is what really makes it worth watching.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 176 User Ratings
6.8
70% Positive
123 Ratings
123 Ratings
12% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
18% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 176 User Ratings
6.8
70% Positive
123 Ratings
123 Ratings
12% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
18% Negative
32 Ratings
32 Ratings
Squid Game. Season 1. Best series of 2021! The creator and the whole team did a real miracle! Showing each character and relationship so interestingly that it is impossible to stop watching. Even the games themselves go a bit into the background, although they are also very interestingly scary. Although the last episode reduces the degree of tension, this does not make the series even a bit worse. Looking forward to continuing...
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SEASON 1
Squid Game was so beautifully shot and so wonderfully written! I think Americans/English speaking countries were opened up to how wonderful movies can be originating from other cultures/countries! This movie spells massive Netflix Subscriber adoption for 2022!
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SEASON 1
It’s black comedy at its bleakest, a tonal juxtaposition that is to be admired. I think it’s so effective, especially in a genre that is so extreme in its gore, that it masquerades as “fun.” ... Like Parasite, it uses genre as a Trojan horse for discussions about capitalism and class. We’re a culture attuned to hyper-violence, but the series manages to show it in a way that you never become desensitized.
The fate of the more sympathetic characters among them is where the drama lies. The ins and outs of the games are thrilling. When the team of scrappy protagonists—male and female, young and old—tugs and tugs at a rope, trying to drag a much stronger, all-male team over a precipice, I cheered for every step back they took, even though them winning would mean a bunch of other people would get crushed to death.
Ultraviolent and terrifically gripping thriller. [25 Oct - 7 Nov 2021, p.9]
“Squid Game” has nothing to say about inequality and free will beyond pat truisms, and its characters are shallow assemblages of family and battlefield clichés, set loose upon a patently ridiculous premise. ... [The violence] is more than mildly sickening in its scale, its graphic presentation and its calculated gratuitousness.
A cultural phenomenon and such a unique experience - I'm gonna miss this show and the feeling I got watching it for the first time. I'm still reeling from that ending (the last two episodes really)... This show just ripped my heart out, made me obsessed with its main concept and characters... and yeah, I'm just stunned and kind of devastated by how it ended. This one's gonna stick with me for a long time... definitely one of the most memorable, impactful shows I've watched in a long time.
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SEASON 1
I knew a lot of people would die in this show, I just didn't think it happen in such a stupid way. Just don't pretend this has some anti-capitalism, anti-violence message. Just admit it satisfies violent, greedy urges. It scratches that itch. You like it. I’m not squeamish or “faint of heart,” I’m just tired of modern filmmaking being this gloomy, gaudy mess of misanthropic misery porn. Every new show I try to watch is just more of the same. Is no one making hopeful art anymore?
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SEASON 1