Squid Game’s Most Disturbing Message Went Unnoticed

Summary:

• In 2021, South Korean Squid Game became the biggest international TV sensation, taking over Netflix ’s global charts.
• Squid Game featured many different sides to the story, from common players to rich stakeholders watching the show.
• The series’ social commentary bit that most fans overlooked is that we were enjoying the Game just as much as the hated fictional billionaires.

In 2021, Squid Game made not the waves but tsunamis: the South Korean TV show took over the entire world, immediately becoming an international hit. With the perfect mix of stunning visuals, interesting concept, and compelling characters, Squid Game didn’t take prisoners, it just conquered everyone’s hearts and minds.

But for all its pros, social commentary still remains the most thought-through aspect of the series that’s so powerful most viewers don’t even grasp its calling them out.

Squid Game Presented Several Sides of Plot

While the focus of the TV show largely stayed on its protagonist, it featured several sides of the conflict. The most interesting characters, all having their own goals and motivations, were the players; but apart from them, we also had a rogue police officer trying to investigate the inhumane games, the mysterious man in charge of them, and the rich and spoiled audience.

The latter group was only introduced late into Squid Game Season 1. The games were held to entertain the bored rich who were eager to spend immense money to watch others suffer, betray each other, and die for a fracture of the fortunes they held. But there’s more to this spoiled and disgusting group than you might think.

We All Missed the Scariest Part

The stakeholder viewers of the Squid Game induced nothing but repulsion from us viewers back home, but there’s a peculiar parallel here that most didn’t quite grasp. Just like the rich and spoiled, we all, too, paid money to… Watch the Squid Game unfold! Granted that it was the matter of a Netflix subscription and not a million-dollar investment for us, of course.

The real question is, why are we so eager to watch the life-or-death games built on human suffering? Why is this deeply disturbing genre so popular among us common folks? And are we any different from the rich masked a-holes who battle their boredom by spectating the most terrifying and inhumane experiments on people?..

While some of it is an exaggeration, this really gets you thinking. Why don’t you like the rich stakeholders if you were part of the reason the Squid Game became so overwhelmingly popular?