Squid Game Season 1 HD Released

 

Squid Game Season 1

Plot: Desperate debt-ridden individuals make up the list of willing participants on a mysterious game on a mysterious island. All they have to do is to play six simple children’s games to be able to eventually win a huge prize money – but if you fail at the game, you are eliminated from life itself.

Review: Have you ever wondered if you were just a pawn in the game of life? Where you are thrown into situations beyond your control and challenged to survive? Squid Game begins by introducing us to some of the main leads of this series – each of them, cash-strapped, struggling through desperate situations and some even hoping that a little gambling can change their fortune.

We first meet Gi-hun, a lively but poverty-struck compulsive gambler who, otherwise, lives off stealing his old mother’s depleting resource of small cash that he again gambles away for just a bit more. On the other hand, Gi-hun is also constantly attempting to resurrect himself as a responsible father to his little daughter who now lives with her mother and her financially stable stepfather. At the end of one really bad day, Gi-hun meets a man who invites him to play a simple game for some money. After many rounds of failure, and therefore slaps for each time that he fails, he finally wins a round. The man then gives him a visiting card with a number that is his entry to a game show that can change his life.

Once Gi-hun takes up this offer and voluntary accepts to be a part of this game, we meet the rest of the participants – hundreds of debt-ridden and desperate individuals, all hoping for a chance to change their fortune. But at what stake? The participants, as well as the audience, discover the sheer horror of the situation they have got themselves into only when the first game in the series of six children’s games has begun. The rules are simple. You follow the rules and pass the game. And those who do not pass are eliminated – quite literally. They are just shot dead.

Here, then, begins a super addictive show where the participants are not animated characters that are so easily killed in a regular violent video game, but are actual human beings. Apart from the protagonist Gi-hun, who is now player number 456, the story highlights and dwells deep into the psyche of quite a few other characters, that compels you to root for or even detest some of them. Understanding the simplicity of each game, using every trick in the book to help you cross over, even while dealing with the stress of finishing on time – as each game is eventually a life-and-death situation, is probably what makes you continue watching all the nine episodes right up till the end. Add to that the challenges of surviving beyond the actual game, that forces every participant to either opt to defend themselves or just go right ahead and attack their biggest threats.

One can watch this show in Korean, with English subtitles, or opt for English as the preferred audio. However, watching it in Korean does justice to the gripping performances of the main characters. 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.