Netflix has released a trailer for the upcoming reality series. The squid game: the challenge. The upcoming show begins with 456 contestants competing for a $4.56 million prize in repackaged events (minus the brutal violence) from the scripted series. What better way to follow a fictional critique of modern capitalism’s exploitation of the financially desperate for profit and entertainment than to embrace a reality show that exploits the financially desperate for profit and entertainment?
Among other games taken from the South Korean show, the competition trailer shows the creepy “red light, green light” doll from the original series as players in green tracksuits nervously slide around the court, ready to stop at any moment. moment. (In this version, the “shots” fired at the offending players involve pre-placed blood packs exploding in their chests.) In standard reality TV style, there are hints of blatant backstabbing and plenty of greed for prize money. Masked guards create an atmosphere of intimidation as Sammy Davis Jr.’s “I’ve Gotta Be Me” plays in the background, echoing the source material’s theme of improbable riches as the only path to fulfillment in a late-capitalist hell.
When the competition was filmed earlier this year, each player was put through this exhibition with a 0.22% chance of winning a couple million dollars after taxes.
The reality series made headlines earlier this year when several contestants reportedly required medical attention, proving that the irony has plateaued and Netflix is selling tickets to see its dead body. “It was like a war zone,” one player said. said Sun. “People left crying.” The report described frigid conditions: One exhausted player was carried off on a stretcher while others crawled to the finish line.
“Even if hypothermia set in, people were willing to stay as long as possible because there was a lot of money at stake,” said one competitor. “Too many were determined not to move, so they stayed there for too long. There were people who came thinking they were going to be millionaires but left crying.”
As one contestant says in the trailer: “This is a wild game.” The squid game: the challenge begins to transmit Netflix on November 22.
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