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Series Details & Credits
| Netflix | Release Date: November 22, 2023 |
Summary:
The reality competitive series based on the series Squid Game features 456 contestants competing to possibly win $4.56 million.
Genre(s):
Reality, Game Show
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Positive:
9
Mixed:
10
Negative:
7
Screen Rant
Nov 4, 2025
Nov 20, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Not only does Squid Game: The Challenge qualify as damn good reality television, it even serves as an unexpectedly effective adaptation of the original K-drama. The game show uses the language of modern reality television to realize, in its own strange way, the themes in Dong-hyuk’s parable of capitalism grinding human beings into dust.
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The Daily Beast
Dec 1, 2023
The Independent
Nov 20, 2023
The Guardian
Nov 4, 2025
Season 2 Review:
For a brief moment, I do consider whether Squid Game: The Challenge could be so bad that it is good, but I think that would be letting its makers off too lightly. The way many of its contestants conduct themselves is dreadful, but then again, this is a dreadful contest.
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Nov 22, 2023
Collider
Nov 20, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Although it gestures at some of the more complicated questions lurking beneath its existence, this is merely lip service without any real care or substance. All the gimmicks it throws in at the margins can't hide how morally bankrupt it is at its core. When we look back on the rise of streaming, Squid Game: The Challenge will be the show that saw the fires of hell and decided to find an even more craven low.
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Air Date: November 4, 2025
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Air Date: November 22, 2023
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