It’s among the six games that the contestants have to play on their quest to leave the island alive. As mentioned in the first episode, “Squid Game” is named after a children’s game played on a court that is shaped like a squid.
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Why is it called ‘Squid Game’? Are there squid in it?Īs TV critic Robert Lloyd notes in his review, squid are not harmed - or even present - in the nine-episode series.
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The show follows Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) and 455 other debt-ridden contestants who have been taken to a hidden compound on an island to play a series of children’s games with a deadly twist and a cash prize. Written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, “Squid Game” is the buzzy Korean drama series that is on track to top “Bridgerton” and become Netflix’s most successful show ever (according to the streamer’s self-reported metrics).
Matt Brennan Catch UpĮverything you need to know about the film or TV series everyone’s talking aboutĪnybody who’s spent time on Netflix or scrolled their social media feed in the last couple of weeks has likely wondered at one point, “What is ‘Squid Game’?” Here’s a quick primer about that curious presence on your Netflix screen that has already inspired plenty of TikToks. By the time you reach the end you’ll be impatient for more, but take heart: The streamer’s adaptation of Rooney’s debut, “Conversations with Friends,” began filming in April. Co-written by Rooney, Alice Birch and Mark O’Rowe, and directed by Lenny Abrahamson (“Room”) and Hettie Macdonald (“Howards End”), its tale of childhood friends-turned-classmates-turned-lovers Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell ( Paul Mescal) is crisp, almost pure, in its simplicity: Over 12 breathtakingly sexy half-hour installments, the pair hew together and drift apart, buffeted by class differences, family strife, career developments, even depression, which Mescal actualizes with empathy and precision in the stricken revelation that is Episode 10. Whether you’ve already devoured Sally Rooney’s latest novel, “Beautiful World, Where Are You,” as I have, or simply require a jolt of cuffing-season inspiration, Hulu’s intimate, impossibly delicate adaptation of her second book, “Normal People, ” is the perfect miniseries to spend an autumn weekend with. (And never manage to review a film.) - Robert Lloyd
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(I once moderated a panel with Heidecker and Turkington on the “On Cinema” spinoff “Decker” - a MAGA-before-MAGA bargain-basement home-brew spy series - and it became clear as the night wore on that I was also an actor in this game, helping to write its history.) As versions of themselves, which is to say, characters who bear their names, the two are caught in a relationship based on jealousy and resentment, fated to torture one another into eternity - people who, however free they imagine themselves to be, have nowhere else to go. This ongoing life project from Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington - a riff on Siskel and Ebert that turned into an exercise in deep world-building - has lived on various platforms across its many seasons, the 12th of which debuts Wednesday on the HEI (as in Heidecker) Network, a real web-based subscription service that is itself part of the maxi-multi-mega-metafiction.
“On Cinema at the Cinema” ( HEI Network).
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