'Squid Game' is a parable of modern life as blood sport. The fact that it doesn't feel far-fetched is key to its twisted appeal, says Alan Sepinwall.
For the most part, writer director Hwang Dong-hyuk’s mix of high and low elements like that works incredibly well. The first two episodes are largely devoted to showing the desperate lives of gambling addict Gi-hun , disgraced embezzler Cho Sang-woo , North Korean defector Kang Sae-byeok , and the other players, and explaining why each of them would participate even after learning — via a red light-green light contest featuring a giant robot and sniper rifles — of the game’s deadly stakes.
But once the action settles in for good on the game’s island base, the action and suspense are propulsive and relentless, makingThough we start out with hundreds of competitors — and the sheer scale of the endeavor is a huge part of what is simultaneously so creepy and so visually compelling — the focus is primarily on a handful of them, plus cop Hwang Jun-ho , who impersonates a guard while searching for the missing brother he believes participated in the game years earlier.
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