So I finally got round to watching the whole of Squid Game and I'm glad I did as it's extremely good. It's probably the first south korean piece of media I've seen apart from gangnam style and it was extremely brutal, gory and upsetting at times. It's one of those shows that makes you wonder what you would do if you were in the show and participated in the Squid Game. Similar to Total Drama or the manga Gantz.

I won't go into spoilers but all I can say is that there are many unexpected moments and twists galore but there were sadly a lot of predictable moments too. The aspect that impressed me the most was the visuals and camera work especially in the game portion as this show looks phenomenal and doesn't use any CGI crap. It has nice social commentary and themes of survival and what it means to be alive. The fact that so many characters are desperate enough for money that they participate in a game of death to get a shit ton of it speaks volumes.

As I'm a brit I didn't know how much the money in the show was worth so I constantly had a tab of "South Korean won to British pounds" calculator open to figure out how much the money actually was. I do that with anime too except with "Japanese yen to British pounds" instead.

I do think it's slightly overrated and I had no idea how it became Netflix's most watched show in such a short amount of time and I still think "Love, Death & Robots" is the best Netflix original I've seen but this show is well worth the praise.

I give Squid Game 9 sneeds out of 10.

P.S the girl who plays the North Korean thief is cute and can rob me of my virginity