Squid Game

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 17, 2021
Season #: 3, 2, 1
Metascore
69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 13
  3. Negative: 1 out of 13

Critic Reviews

  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Oct 11, 2021
    30
    “Squid Game” has nothing to say about inequality and free will beyond pat truisms, and its characters are shallow assemblages of family and battlefield clichés, set loose upon a patently ridiculous premise. ... [The violence] is more than mildly sickening in its scale, its graphic presentation and its calculated gratuitousness.

Awards & Rankings

18
#18 Most Discussed TV Season of 2021

User Reviews

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User Score
6.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 174 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 121 out of 174
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 174
  3. Negative: 32 out of 174
  1. Vaako
    Sep 28, 2021
    1
    Sorry, unpopular opinion, but this show is terrible. The only thing that is horrific is the poor quality acting.
  2. OlivierPiel
    Oct 2, 2021
    0
    Compare this to the "Platform", the Spanish show about people having to share a small amount of food.
    Whereas the Platform was concerned    Compare this to the "Platform", the Spanish show about people having to share a small amount of food.
    Whereas the Platform was concerned about facing starvation, despair and death while trying to retain dignity , beauty and humanity, this show simplify the Hobbesian mantra "Hominus Hominei Lupus" and negate the free will of our protagonists.
    Furthermore, the acting is atrociously cartoonish, the characters one-dimensional, the plot drawn out, the violence disgustingly voyeurish - real porn like-.

    The despair is that so many people like such a dumbed down version of a....manga, not that "capitalism is eating mankind"    … Full Review »
  3. pnoyfilmtvadik
    Oct 8, 2021
    1
    I gave it a chance. 1st 20 minutes was not good at all. It was overly acted and made no sense. I couldnt relate to any of the characters.I gave it a chance. 1st 20 minutes was not good at all. It was overly acted and made no sense. I couldnt relate to any of the characters. Badly directed. Tries too hard.… Full Review »
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