"The Squid Game Season 1"'s plot synopsis: The series follows hundreds of people who are struggling to make ends meet and participate in six life-or-death escape games for high stakes.

"The Squid Game Season 1" is a thriller and suspense drama series produced by Netflix, directed by Hwang Dong Hyuk, and starring Lee Jung Jae, Park Hae Soo, Wei Loo Jun, and Jung Ho-Juan, which launched on September 17, 2021 on Netflix. Plot: The drama tells the story of hundreds of people who are struggling to make ends meet and take part in six life-and-death escape games for high prizes.

The games involved in the show are children's games from the 1970s and '80s, including "One, Two, Three Wooden Men," "Gouge the Sugar Cookie" and "Tug of War." "marbles", "glass bridge" and "squid game". But behind the fa?ade of childhood games, the essence is a game of survival. The location of this survival game is unknown, and the participants will be locked up in the "Battle Royale" room where the game takes place until the ultimate winner is crowned.

Episode Rating for "The Squid Game Season 1"

In "The Squid Game Season 1," the masterminds of the system are plutocrats who see through the darkness of human nature, as well as global powerbrokers with a pathological penchant for wearing masks and enjoying killing. It's an overly simplistic and facile setup that may make the plot easy to understand for the average viewer, but it doesn't help to reveal the themes in any depth.

It's worth pointing out that viewers only need to change their point of view to realize that they themselves, as viewers of "The Squid Game Season 1," have unwittingly become participants in this survival game. "I hope to see more brutal killings", "two can only survive one, eager to know what the couple will do", these are the common mindset when watching the show. The creators have utilized the darkness of this mindset to make the audience see the limitations of their own humanity.