There is something very comical and deeply disturbing with how years ago, TV execs wanted to make a Hunger Games reality show and now Netflix has just greenlit a Squid Game reality show.

Especially with the whole Netflix being so proud of the fact that according to them, they will be offering the biggest cash prize in reality television history for their new reality show. 

There are just so many things running through my head that I’m legitimately at a loss for words.

I just…

This definitely isn’t the big take away nor the main problem with this insane idea, but I have to wonder –

Does Netflix think Squid Game became one of their highest viewed shows because people loved watching adults playing children’s games and everything else about the show was inconsequential? Or what exactly?

The fact that anyone would think this is a good idea is beyond baffling to me.

they're absolutely beyond satire you almost have to admire it

What do you mean it was a bad idea for Netflix to make a “real life Squid Game” show? What do you MEAN “Squid Game IRL” was “cruel” “mean” and “inhumane?” I am absolutely shocked and disgusted that the rich people making a show about how rich people love to degrade poor people degraded poor people. I can’t BELIEVE that the contestants were treated like horses in the “human horse race” game. Disgusting and horrible.

I’m very rarely the “you should have seen it coming” guy, but please tell me what the hell people THOUGHT they were signing up for.

Netflix Plans A Reality Show Based On Squid Game Series With A $4.5 Million Prize

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Netflix plans to work on ‘Squid Game: The Challenge,’ a reality show contest based on the South Korean series of the same name. They aim to become the largest television production in history. With overtones of a reality show, the Squid Game contest will have 456 participants and a prize of 4.56 million dollars. They reported this recently from the streaming platform in a statement. According to…

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Netflix New Squid Game: The Challenge to be the Biggest Reality Show

Netflix New Squid Game: The Challenge to be the Biggest Reality Show

Netflix New Squid Game: The Challenge, a 10-episode new Reality series, will be the biggest ever show the streaming platform announced. The show, which is based on the company’s most famous series, Squid Game, would include the “biggest cast and a cash prize of $4.5 Million in reality TV history.” Netflix revealed, the new 10-episode reality competition will have games inspired by the original…

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Why no one make any J-drama & K-drama fanfic bestie!?! T^T

My friend who's heavily into Kdrama keeps asking me if I've watched this and that and the answer is usually no - I've been really busy and when I do find time I'm usually watching Thai stuff (without being explicit). So she only goes and finds a Thai drama on Netflix to watch together. Gah. Which is the backstory to why I watched a het drama called Ready Set Love on Saturday.

Premise: because of a mysterious pandemic the male population of the world is greatly outnumbered by the female and the birthrate for boys is only 0.009%. In Thailand there are only c.350 males and they are idolised, kept safe from birth in a government run facility called The Farm.

Plot: as they get to their 20s the boys are paired up with women on a reality type show Ready Set Love 5 boys and 50 girls- 45 of who from the wealthy elite (including a clique called 'The Organics' who were born 'naturally' rather than through IVF - shades of Mean Girls) but 5 contestants are chosen by lottery from the general pubic. Our heroine is one of these; entered by her sister she agrees to take part in the hope that, if she wins, she'll be able to access the medical treatment her sister needs. Cue shenanigans.

It's a romcom with thriller elements - there's the uncovering of a conspiracy, some disturbing actions by the government, an underground resistance etc but there's also this completely bonkers game show, and it is bonkers. It's almost Squid Game like in its madness (without the death).

Because of the set up the vast majority of the cast - from crew to security to vendors to hospital staff to, well, everyone - is female. It's a really interesting take and also, of course, it means that there are a lot of lesbian couples. What about the boys though? What if one of them were gay? Well, we do get crumbs of a side couple so if @heretherebedork watches they will be delighted.

And I enjoyed it. Only 6 eps and with a good budget which meant that the over-the-top gameshow special effects etc were excellent. Some of the comedy was cringy but hey, it's Thailand so it's only to be expected and if I can sit through a Cheewin comedy I can handle anything.

Worth a watch if you need a BL break. Or even if you don't.

Squid Game:

The Challenge Finale

I'm Asian but I hope Mai doesn't win. She's ruthless.

Let the gay besties win. 🌈🦄

that squid game reality show genuinely & sincerely makes me so irrationally angry & the stupid ass takes surrounding it make it so much worse.

i actually sincerely cant handle it. it makes me so irate bruh

has this been done before? i’m new.

Wait squid game has a remake already? That was fast.

not a remake per se, but like, an actual game show with actual contestants and an actual prize, yeah (minus the actual deaths, of course, although people are already theeatening to sue).

and it's not even the first one, cause that mr. beast guy did it first.

Who could have possibly seen this coming??

I've been sick all week and for some reason I decided to watch Squid Game: The Challenge, and aside from being utterly tone deaf and dystopian, it's also boring as shit