Squid Game: The Challenge Contestants Told It Was 100% Real

The whole thing sounds like PTSD: The Gameshow to us, but we admit we’re slightly ignorant when it comes to the concept of The Hunger Games as a documentary.

The good news is that the people at Netflix know what Squid Game: The Challenge looks like. The bad news is they don’t care.

“There’ll be people who say stuff like, ‘Oh, Netflix are missing the point because it was an anti-democratic thought piece,’” says executive producer Tim Harcourt, quite correctly, we might add.

“Well, I’ve got two teenage boys and that wouldn’t even enter their mind as to what that show is about. They see it as being a fantasy game world.”

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Welp, media literacy is officially dead. Squid Game: The Challenge starts November 22 on Netflix.

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