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Positive:
9
Mixed:
10
Negative:
7
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Critic Reviews
The Observer (UK)Sep 10, 2024
The Daily BeastDec 1, 2023
Nov 22, 2023
Season 1 Review:
Cast members are the inarguable highlight of “The Challenge.” On the one hand, the show is distinguished by its scale. .... As the show continues beyond its initial flex and can concentrate on a rapidly shrinking number of stars, “The Challenge” comes alive on a much more intimate scale.
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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 TelegraphNov 20, 2023
Season 1 Review:
With money at stake, rather than life itself, some of the cooped-up politicking in the middle episodes smacks wearily of Big Brother. Other passages of play lean too heavily on popularity contests. But by the final few episodes the tension, intrigue and antagonism are bubbling to the boil. I’ve seen eight of the ten episodes and am agog to discover how ruthless the last dollar-driven survivors can be.
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The GuardianNov 20, 2023
Season 1 Review:
It was reasonable to assume that Squid Game: The Challenge would be a cash-in, a cynical by-product of the original’s success that would miss the point entirely, and perhaps it does. But as a gameshow, as the spectacle it sets out to be, it is very hard to look away.
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