After all of the Minecraft mods and YouTuber stunts, this was inevitable: Netflix is doing Squid Sport for actual. The streaming website is making a 10-episode competitors sequence referred to as Squid Sport: The Problem, and says the winner will get the most important lump sum money prize in actuality TV historical past: $4.56 million.
Within the Korean drama sequence that impressed this actuality sequence, a whole lot of contestants play kids’s video games in a perverse competitors that sees one winner free of debt and the losers shot and cremated. Contestants on Squid Sport: The Problem is not going to be executed by snipers and incinerated (“the worst destiny goes residence empty-handed,” mentioned Netflix earlier than anybody requested) , however just like the fictional Squid Sport, there will be 456 of them to get rid of. Netflix says it is the most important ever actuality TV present solid.
Squid Sport is Netflix’s hottest present ever, and it was all over the place for a pair months in 2021. This would possibly not even be the primary ‘actual’ Squid Sport: YouTuber Mr Beast spent $3.5 million recreating scenes from the present final 12 months, and over 250 million individuals watched the video (opens in new tab). Modders ran with it, too, recreating sudden loss of life kids’s video games in Roblox and Minecraft. The PlayStation button masks, Fall Guys colours, and considerably Battle Royale-like plot led us to jot down in regards to the present, too. It was what was happening in September 2021.
I kind of marvel if it has endurance, although. What number of methods are you able to make a youngsters’ sport a twisted youngsters’ sport? And after watching 456 adults play a lethal model of Crimson Mild, Inexperienced Mild within the fictional Squid Sport, why would I wish to watch 456 adults play common Crimson Mild, Inexperienced Mild?
I suppose the present’s success will rely on the unscripted personalities of the rivals and, to some extent, how Netflix handles the dramatic irony right here: There is not any scarcity of onlookers mentioning that the fictional Squid Sport is a metaphor for exploitation and abuse of the poor and downtrodden.
There’s nonetheless time to be a type of downtrodden, by the best way. Netflix is casting for the present now. You will not be slapped within the face and handed a cryptic enterprise card in a subway station, although. You simply should submit a one minute video at squidgamecasting.com (opens in new tab). Disappointingly simple already!
Netflix hasn’t but introduced when Squid Sport: The Problem will launch. (It ought to most likely work out who its 456 rivals are first.) Season two of Squid Sport would not have a launch date both.
