It’s here that they’re told they’ll be playing in the innocent kids’ game Red Light, Green Light. Escher neon nightmare room of staircases and pastel colors and end up in a vast space painted to seem like they’re outdoors with a giant robot doll ( already an icon). No one knows what’s going on until they’re ushered through an M. The introduction the players are given before they sign up has very little actual information, just how each of them is on the brink of financial ruin, that they’ll be competing in six games over the next six days, and that their winnings will be whatever is in the currently empty giant golden piggy bank suspended from the ceiling. After the masked, magenta-jumpsuit adorned workers give an introduction with a “heartfelt welcome,” Gi-hun recognizes Cho Sang-woo (218), a childhood friend who is now wanted for financial crimes. Gi-hun’s impulsive ass jumps in when he realizes Sae-byeok was the pickpocket who stole his winnings from the horse race. He meets contestant 001, an old man with a brain tumor who is counting the number of contestants to stave off dementia, before encountering gangster Jang Deok-su (101) as he beats up Kang Sae-byeok (067), a woman who used to work for him.
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The recruiter asks if he wants to “participate in the game.” Next thing we know, he’s getting picked up by a masked driver in a van and knocked out with sleeping gas.įor whatever reason, Gi-hun is surprisingly calm when he wakes up in a massive dormitory (as are all the players - maybe still groggy?) with all the other players wearing the same green jumpsuits with numbers on them (Gi-hun is 456). It’s enough to push him to call the phone number.
with her mom and stepfather, but he could get custody if he proves his financial means. Gi-hun doesn’t seem entirely interested in what it all means until his mother tells him that Ga-yeong is moving to the U.S. After he finally wins (and briefly forgets about the money over the chance to slap back, which, fair), the recruiter outlines Gi-hun’s disheartening financial circumstances and gives him a business card with three symbols on one side and a phone number on the other. I lost count of how many times he gets slapped before he actually wins one round, but considering my limit would have been three, he plays long enough to prove himself both desperate for money and a glutton for punishment: the ideal candidate for the upcoming games. (The penniless losers? They get off with the low price of a slap to the face.) To win at ddakji (origami meets pogs), you have to flip your opponent’s folded origami square with your own, and it looks like it requires both brute strength and an eye for angles to be good. Gi-hun thinks he’s a missionary at first, but no, the recruiter is just a handsome man offering cash to strangers who beat him in a round of ddakji. (Also, poor Ga-yeong.)Īt the end of this rough-ass day, Gi-hun meets a mysterious recruiter (played by none other than the Goblin himself, Gong Yoo). All this happens on his daughter Ga-yeong’s 10th birthday, no less, resulting in a disappointing dinner of tteokbokki (spicy fish and rice cakes) and a gun-shaped lighter when all she wanted was fried chicken. In the first 12 minutes of the episode, Gi-hun is so unbearably pitiful - stealing his mom’s debit card, recklessly gambling her money on horse races, losing his winnings, getting beaten up by his loan shark, taking back a 10,000-won tip (about $10) from a cashier - it’s nearly impossible to root for him.
How the show got so big is a journey still being sussed out, so for now the best thing to do is just join the ride.Īfter a black-and-white scene explaining the titular game, we meet our first main character, Seong Gi-hun, a divorced dad with a gambling problem and massive debt who lives with his mother.
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For now, the series has resonated with millions of viewers in more than 90 countries, all watching 456 players carrying immense debt compete in deadly children’s games for a chance to win a literal fortune. Word of mouth by netizens on Twitter and Tik Tok has propelled the death-game thriller into the mainstream, with lots of other Korean content (hopefully) following closely behind. with an eye-catching trailer and a dream.
Squid Game, the new K-drama that may become Netflix’s biggest show ever in the next couple of days, arrived in the U.S. The ones who don’t stop in time? Shot down. A giant animatronic doll sings the Korean phrase for “Red Light, Green Light.” Adults in green tracksuits have the length of the jingle to move forward and stop before the doll turns.
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