The Best: Squid Game
If Saw and the Hunger Games had a grounded, sociopolitcal child, it would be Netflix’s incredible Squid Game. Set in what we believe to be our world, it’s about hundreds of down-on-their-luck people recruited to compete in a series of kids’ games. Win, and all your financial troubles will be over. Lose, and you die. The stakes increase from minute to minute leading to unforgettable edge of your seat tension. Characters from all walks of life endear themselves to us and as their games end, it gets emotional too. Squid Game is the type of show that television aspires to: a mega hit that lives up to the hype and then some.
