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Squid Game

TV · 2021–2025 · 3 seasons

A garish, merciless pressure cooker that turns playground games into moral horror and keeps you braced for the next elimination.

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2021 South Korean television series
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Class
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Year
2021–2025
Seasons
3
Episodes
22
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
relentless, 4 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • survival
  • class
  • greed
  • morality
  • betrayal
Places
  • single country house
  • prison
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • serialised
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex mild
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action7
Horror6
Humour3
Realism6
Romance2
Tension9
Darkness9
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

Details

Genres
action, drama, survival, thriller, mystery
Created by
Hwang Dong-hyeok
Written by
Hwang Dong-hyeok
Starring
Gong Yoo, Lee Jung-jae, Jung Ho-yeon, Lee Byung-hun, Park Hae-soo, Wi Ha-jun, Lee You-mi, Anupam Tripathi
Music
Jung Jae-il
Length
3 seasons, 22 episodes
Network
Netflix
Country
South Korea
Languages
Korean

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