Squid Game: The Challenge is a morbid LARP trapped inside a reality TV show

TV Show ReviewsThe most dystopian thing about Netflix’s new Squid Game reality show is how much fun its contestants seem to be having.

By Charles Pulliam-Moore, a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.

Participants in Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge. Image: Netflix

From the moment Netflix first greenlit Squid Game, it stands to reason that the streamer was already bouncing ideas around about how it could parlay the dystopian drama’s popularity into some sort of spinoff simulating the experience of being in the contest. It’s more than a bit

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