Netflix Just Dropped New Romantic Sci-fi Dystopia Inspired by Squid Game

Summary:

• Ready, Set, Love, a new intriguing TV show about a world where women need to conquer men’s affection, has been released on Netflix recently.
• It tries to fool viewers by its initial goofiness, but at the same time evokes deep speculations on such essential themes as feminism and freedom.

Back in 2021, Squid Game fever got all the world stuck to their screens and paved the way to lots of similar competition reality shows and YouTube experimental videos. Even though the format of the “Battle royal” is not a recent invention, the Korean hit series resurrected this genre and inspired new dystopian screenplays and their creators.

Among the Squid Game inspired shows we can also bravely name the newly-released Netflix original Thai series Ready, Set, Love (directed by Yanyong Kuruangkura), which is initially presented as a light romantic comedy.

It is set in a world where women significantly outnumber men as a result of a severe pandemic in the past, which killed a great number of men and limited the probability of their birth to 0.001%.

In this alternate dystopian reality the rest of the men are treated as “national treasures” and are presented as prizes in a special TV game show where women compete for their attention and feelings, participating in deadly challenges and battles, similar to the ones from the above-mentioned Squid Game or The Hunger Games movies.

The main character, Day (Kemisara “Belle” Paladesh), gets a chance to participate in this competition, hoping to help her sick sister. There she meets Son (Pongtiwat “Blue” Tangwancharoen), one of the five show’s men, relationship with whom starts to develop.

Beside evidently present romantic and comedic aspects, the six-episode series is also full of serious reflections on feminism and people’s rights as a whole, as well as mysterious and conspiratorial details about governmental totalitarianism.

The first user reviews on the Thai series genuinely praise it and clearly point out its socially important statements and compare it with other sci-fi dystopias.

“It's like a light hearted overlong episode of Black Mirror, ” assures Redditor @SocialNetwooky.

Viewers’ exploration of the invented world, its culture and specific rules is progressing step by step here through the reality show happening inside of the series and through its participant Day’s eyes.

Thus, Ready, Set, Love features more than a rom-com in the decorations of a futuristic world with its own somewhat funny state of the things.

Stream it on Netflix to dive into the new intriguing dystopia that breaks the canon.