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'The Challenge' is understanding why this 'Squid Game' game show was green-lit (www.npr.org)
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Squid Game: The Challenge is a reality game show based on the sensational South Korean drama series. But this gruesome, creatively misbegotten concept should never have made it past the first meeting.

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[–] PoopingCough 4 points 7 months ago

This is exactly how i felt when I saw they made this. I was kinda shocked some of my friends were able to watch it without feeling the ick. Like, i get that really its no better than something like Survivor or other reality+game show format shows, but the fact that the entire point of the original show was to showcase the abject cruelty of late stage capitalism was insanely obvious, and I haven't even watched the original.