Koreans are in debt. To get out of ruin, people can play a series of games, with the prize being roughly $33 million. However, if you lose, you die.

Sang-Woo needs money to avoid arrest, Ali Abdul needs it to leave the country, while the old man plays simply to have fun.

“Squid Game” is a Korean-based show and has been the No. 1 show to watch for over three weeks on Netflix, according to their Top 10 listings.

I love this show. 

The characters are enjoyable and the Korean-speaking voice actors are great.

My favorite character was Ali Abdul. He isn’t a relatively big character, but from watching him you can tell that he is a genuine person.

Abdul made a big first impression to the audience when he saved the main character in the game “red light green light” by holding him up and preventing him from falling. That alone is still one of my favorite moments in the show.

He was one of the most fun characters to watch, alongside others like Sae-byeok and the old man.

I would describe Squid Game as a fun combination of “Survivor,” a game show where competitors try to avoid getting voted out of the game, as well as the “SAW” movies. People try to win a competition, but when they get “eliminated,” they will likely get shot in the head.

I also find this story interesting because of the third clause of the games’ agreement, which says that the games will end if the majority of the participants agree to quit.

In such a deadly competition where people die, surely everyone would want to leave, right? Unfortunately, that isn’t the case.

The games have a total of 456 players, all of which are under massive debt and need the prize money to pay off their dues and live a happier life. For example, Seong Gi-hun — the main character — needs the money to save his mother and get her surgery that they can’t afford.

Many of the competitors who were still alive after the first round wanted to risk their life rather than go back to their normal lives, which are also unforgiving like the games.

While there are only nine episodes, Squid Game brings a lot to offer. The actors are talented, the games are entertaining to watch, and the English voice overs are fun to laugh at.

While the future of Squid Game is uncertain, it’s undeniably become one of the biggest Netflix shows of all time ever since they started creating original content back in 2013.