Squid Game: Unleashed review the same games but with less gore [Video]

As the second season approaches, Netflix provide their own adaptation of Squid Game, in a more violent rival to Fall Guys.

When Korean TV series Squid Game was released to an unsuspecting public in 2021, its enormous popularity took everyone by surprise. What was less surprising was its deadly game show subject matter, which occurs with surprising frequency in fiction of all varieties. Forget The Truman Show with its boring non-lethal, humiliation-only tropes, Squid Game is about killing almost everybody involved.

The concept goes back decades, through Arnold Schwarzenegger film The Running Man (which is getting a remake that’s closer to the original Stephen King story), and fellow book adaptations Battle Royale and The Hunger Games. The details are always different but the idea that people would want to watch others risking and losing their lives performing silly game show tasks has been around for a long time.

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