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Squid Game: The Challenge

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Here I sit before you, convinced that 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. That reality television itself is an artifact of late-stage capitalism only underscores the point. — Nicholas Quah, “Oh No, Is Squid Game: The Challenge … Good?”

  1. Episode 5 Episode 10
    Squid Game: The Challenge Season-Finale Recap: Rock, Paper, Scissors … Shoot! Without scale and spectacle to lean on, the finale has little more than chance and cruelty left at its disposal.
  2. Episode 4 Episode 9
    Squid Game: The Challenge Recap: A Game of Civil Decency We have our final three.
  3. Episode 3 Episodes 6-8
    Squid Game: The Challenge Recap: Collective Organizing and Its Discontents The Glass Tile challenge is still haunting me.
  4. Episode 2 Episodes 3-5
    Squid Game: The Challenge Recap: I Like the Chaos of Their Game Paranoia is ramping up as the competition’s challenges and twists lead to more cutthroat gameplay.
  5. Episode 1 Episodes 1 & 2
    Squid Game: The Challenge Series-Premiere Recap: The Ol’ Golden Ticket Netflix’s newest reality competition is just as shockingly cruel as the Korean hit series it’s adapted from.

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    Oh No, Is Squid Game: The Challenge … Good?The adaptation of Netflix’s capitalism-skewering phenomenon is so openly venal it might just reinvent reality TV.
    By Nicholas Quah
  8. trailer mix
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  10. close read
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