Squid Game: The Challenge season two review nothing you see here is OK

"There's missing the point, and then there's Netflix making its capitalism-skewing Korean hit about a ruthless contest into an actual gameshow. The producers of Squid Game: The Challenge have previously denied that's what happened here, stating that, in fact, the series is also about camaraderie and how people work under pressure, and is, I quote, a critique of how we are ingrained from childhood to be ultra-competitive."

"The thing about Squid Game: The Challenge that makes it all OK (although really, none of it is OK) is that everyone here is completely mesmerised by the amount of money on offer. Its prize is among the largest in gameshow history, with the winner of series one, Mai Whelan, cashing a cheque for an extremely cool $4.56m (3.47m). It's the sort of money that makes people go gaga from the off, and the treachery is off the charts."

"The undoubted stars of this first batch of episodes (Netflix will release another lot on 11 November, before the finale on the 18th) are British twins and TikTok personalities Jacob and Raul Gibson. The Gibsons, AKA players 431 and 432, are charming schemers who have the other betracksuited competitors under their spell during a challenge to count 456 seconds exactly that is, until they eliminate three other players to keep themselves in the game. People are outraged as the losers fall"

Netflix's Squid Game: The Challenge adapts the Korean drama into a high-stakes reality gameshow where debt-like desperation meets humiliating tasks for record prize money. The first-series winner received $4.56m, driving extreme competition and betrayal among contestants. Producers frame the show as a critique of ingrained competitiveness and as demonstrating camaraderie under pressure, but the show foregrounds spectacle, monetary temptation, and meaner twists in series two. British twins Jacob and Raul Gibson stand out as charming schemers who manipulate rivals during a timed counting challenge, eliminating three competitors and provoking public outrage.

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