This series has become one of the most popular in the history of the streaming platform Netflix. The project broke the record for views in 90 countries of the world, overtaking the “Bridgertons”
“Squid game” – editorial review of the series / Photo: Collage: Today
“The Squid Game” is the first South Korean TV series, who has achieved such success. Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said the series “is definitely going to be the most successful non-English language show on Netflix,” The Mirror writes.
The editors of “Today” have already watched this hit of the season and are ready to share their impressions with you – both positive and not so positive. And it’s up to you to watch this series or not.
History is not far from our reality
According to our editor of the “Stars” section, Inna Petrova, the episodes seemed to her a little protracted and sometimes wanted “they ended as soon as possible.”
Such reviews, by the way, are quite common. This is especially true of the first two episodes, where the viewer is shown the stories of the main characters and their motives for participating in the “deadly game”.
The rat race of the dispossessed, shown in The Squid Game, left me with an unpleasant aftertaste. In principle, the story “kill or die” is not far from our reality, which is bitter. The plot is far from new. Caricature characters almost did not cause me any emotions. Except, perhaps, for the unfortunate young police officer.
Inna liked the visual design of the series, but our editor calls the project itself “TV series for an amateur”… Such excitement of the “Squid Game” was caused, according to Inna, the amount of “trash” that many viewers love.
Inna’s rating of the series: 6/10
“Squid game” may get a sequel / Photo: Netflix
Endure two series
According to our SEO specialist Ira Naumova, the viewer should “be patient a little” and do not turn off the series after the first episode. And after the second too.
During the first two episodes you get used to the actors who perfectly convey all the emotions, and you seem to become a 457 participant in this “game”. From the third episode, the series is gaining momentum, emotions, and you disappear. And your time too. The excitement for the players will not let you go until the end of the series.
Most of all, Ira was struck by the choice of characters – according to the plot, the main characters play survival games, and the winner receives a huge cash prize that will solve all his life problems.
But when you see what kind of life they lead, how they survive, and some bring harm to others and themselves, you begin to understand their terrible personal choices… Not because of a good life, they all ended up there. The decision made by the winner in this game confirms once again that a person chooses how to live his life and everyone always has a choice. I’m looking forward to the second season, – says Ira.
Ira’s rating for the series: 10/10
Shot from the series “Squid Game” / Photo: themoviedb.org
It’s more of a drama than a thriller
According to film critic and journalist Katherine Van Arendonk, “Squid game” reminds “apocalypse” which many people have faced in the past and this year thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Vulture.
And one cannot but agree with her – in the series, the creators touch upon problems close to many people around the world – poverty, loans, hopelessness, family problems and many other situations that have been exacerbated by the coronavirus. It is possible that this moment was the key reason megapopularity of the project.
I just love beautiful psychological thrillers, where the plot keeps the plot in suspense until the very end. Here we see a mixture of everything – a vivid picture and color scheme, from which you get aesthetic pleasure, dramatic stories of the main characters and situations that manifest human essence. Someone will see here only a vivid picture of murders and bloody games, while someone will clearly respond to the personal drama of each of the characters.
Highly many films where people are fighting for their lives, including participating in games, are gaining frenzied popularity all over the world. Remember the same series of films “The Hunger Games” with Jennifer Lawrence, where the authors wrapped our reality in a beautiful wrapper, only slightly exaggerating it.
Social inequality, struggle for survival, thirst for competition and victory always interested the viewer, who in the depths of his soul understands that with all these concepts he still or otherwise comes across in real life.
Rating of the series by Ani: 9/10
Shot from the series “Squid Game” / Photo: themoviedb.org
To watch or not to watch The Squid Game?
After consulting with the editors, we came to the conclusion that if you want to be trendy and keep abreast of all the novelties of the film industry, love like thrillersand action drama, and don’t understand what the memes are about on social media about The Squid Game, then you should definitely watch this series.
If you too impressionable, to you don’t like asian movies, thriller and action genres are not close, it is better to postpone the series until better times or just skip and wait for the second season of “Emily in Paris” 🙂
In this project there is nothing “super new”, the main idea and life situations of the characters have already been shown in other films and series, but the fact that the product turned out to be of high quality and exciting gives the right we recommend it to the readers for viewing.
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