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Squid Game: Season 1 Reviews
“Squid Game” is a social allegory informed by Korean history. There’s more to the game than gambling and violence.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 26, 2023
There's some great stuff in the show. Episode 6, AKA the marbles game, is a masterclass and there are stellar performances too. Everyone in the main cast is incredible.
Full Review | Mar 30, 2023
Squid Game leaves little to complain about and much to be impressed by. As long as the quantity of blood and the depths of the emotional turmoil the show displays aren’t too much for you, there is little reason not to give this gem a watch.
Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 23, 2023
Squid Game is effective at pulling you in. By the middle of the first episode, viewers are plunged into a world that’s as repulsive as it is gripping, complete with masked villains and hapless antiheroes ...
Full Review | Apr 5, 2022
Hypnotic. [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Jan 11, 2022
A dark and funny look at the well-known injustices of modern societies. [Full review in Spanish]
"Squid Game" is deservedly one of the hottest shows of the year, and it highlights the good streaming can do in regards to breaking down cultural barriers and exposing viewers to masterworks from across the world they would otherwise not have access to.
Full Review | Original Score: 8.5/10 | Dec 13, 2021
"Squid Game'' is a well-produced thriller with a couple of decent twists and a whole lot of violence.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 13, 2021
Its messages hit like a sledgehammer to the head, yet this vibrant, vicious series holds a surprisingly big heart at its core. A winning blend of spectacle and sentiment.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 13, 2021
There is a visceral, primal, can't-look-away feeling to the nine-episode series, which traffics in gore but also deep psychological horror and disturbances.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 13, 2021
This is a series that needs to be experienced, not discussed or analysed. It is one that will stay on in your mind long after you've watched it.
Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 13, 2021
It's not the kind of apocalypse story that longs for hopeful human resilience; it's most eloquent on the topics of financial despondence and weaponized nostalgia.
Full Review | Dec 13, 2021
Compulsively watchable although, in the end, his dark dystopian story is lightened by transforming his protagonist into yet another hero. Forget it, Jake. It's Netflix.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 17, 2021
All of it works as an exercise not just in survival of the fittest, but also as a stirring study of the whims of fortune, imbued with all that social commentary.
Full Review | Nov 13, 2021
In the end, the devastation left by the game is tangible, leaving the winner in anguish and despair, while those at home are begging for more.
Full Review | Nov 4, 2021
A masterful show that truly changed the game in storytelling.
Full Review | Nov 1, 2021
I'm almost halfway through its nine-episode run, and you know what? It is just about worthy of the hype.
Full Review | Oct 27, 2021
Squid Game doesn't delve too deeply - and it's not subtle - but for a visual hammer-blow, this has made waves.
Macabre and addictive. [Full Review in Spanish]
It's weird, but becomes increasingly hypnotising as the story progresses. And inevitably, there are plenty of loose ends left over to set up series 2.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 25, 2021
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Great show, horrible VIPs
- Sep 19, 2021
Loved it, but...
- Sep 17, 2021
Yes, the VIPs sucked, but that didn't ruin the series
- matthewjleming
- Sep 23, 2021
Entertaining!!
- Sep 28, 2022
Will hook you from the start!
- Supermanfan-13
- Sep 12, 2022
Definitely one of the most well-made Netflix shows by Korea
- jaeyeon_jung
- Sep 16, 2021
A realistic version of Alice in Borderland
- Joa0_Bernard0
- Sep 18, 2021
Fun with some disappointing bits (SPOILERS)
- Sep 22, 2021
The squid financial game
- spiroubarcelona
Atrocious translation
- paulyew-45125
Best description? Uncomfortably genius! And quite disturbing!
- missessence78
The first six episodes are gold, and then the glass shatters underneath it
- Sep 30, 2021
Cliché galore
- Oct 16, 2021
Bingeworthy
Parasite + alice in borderland, great show but wow the acting gets bad in episode 7.
- Oct 3, 2021
It started off strong but ended disoriented
- Irishchatter
- Oct 7, 2021
So close to a 10! LOTS OF SPOILERS!
- ashleigh_samantha_hayles
It was good...for a while
- Sep 21, 2021
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Enjoyable and addictive but.....!
- launrol_9200
- Sep 25, 2021
Mixtape algorithm
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- Sep 24, 2021
I Really hope there's a second season and a third
Interesting and got me hooked, more from this title, more to explore, recently viewed.