Normally, I'm not a K-drama person. I feel they are a bit too slow and a bit too long for my taste but, Squid Game was different. Almost everyone who I know who saw the drama gave a positive review on it and I was curious to know what it's all about. So, as soon as I finished my last internal exam, I binge-watched the entire series in an evening (the last time I did that was to watch Stranger Things). Since it was pretty much all over social media, I had a vague idea that it was probably similar to The Hunger Games, and it was. Well, kind of.

Scripted way back in 2008, by Hwang Dong-Hyuk, this nine-episode Netflix drama was released on September 17th, 2021. It's a survival game where 456 debtors choose to play in 6 different (South Korean) childhood games for a lumpsum amount of money ($38 million dollars). For the people who went, "Childhood games? Pft. How simple." Here's the thing. You lose the game or you quit the game, you die. Simple indeed. The series shows the desperation of people. It shows how far of an extent they are willing to go, to win this unfathomable amount of cash. It's alluring. XD