But Squid Game is best known for the brutally twisted playground games the players are forced to endure for the cash prize. From a deadly game of red light-green light or the six-legged pentathlon in ...

Season 3 began with a chilling reinvention of a childhood classic, hide-and-seek. The rules are simple: Contestants are divided into two teams by the random draw of blue and red balls. The Blue Team, ...

Squid Game’s first season dropped seemingly out of the sky in 2021, spanning nine episodes and giving Netflix its biggest hit to date, winning Emmys for creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, star Lee Jung-jae, and ...

The message was loud and clear when Netflix‘s Korean thriller “Squid Game” arrived in 2021. Imagining wealth and class disparity at the heart of a high-stakes competition, it featured cash-strapped ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica is an entertainment reporter covering TV, film, and music. The third season opens in the wake of the deadly rebellion ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Regina Kim covers Korean and Asian American entertainment. Despite the first season’s open ending—in which protagonist Seong ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...