Last year Netflix announced it was filming a 10-episode series called Squid Game: The Challenge, inspired by the mega-popular Korean series in which poor people are exploited by being offered incredib
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Last year Netflix announced it was filming a 10-episode series called Squid Game: The Challenge, inspired by the mega-popular Korean series in which poor people are exploited by being offered incredible amounts of money if they can survive a series of cruel games. In Netflix’s reality show version, contestants were offered $4.56 million to compete in games based on those from the show, with the difference being that nobody would die. In addition to being conceptually tone-deaf, a report by Rolling Stone (opens in new tab) suggests this game show was filmed in inhumane conditions, and may even have been rigged.
Four competitors spoke out under condition of anonymity, discussing a version of the show’s game called „Red Light, Green Light“ in the subtitles and „Mugunghwa kkochi pieot seumnida“ in the original Korean. They told Rolling Stone they were driven from London to a hanger in a former Air Force base with concrete floors, where they filmed for up to nine hours in temperatures so low that even with two layers of thermals under their tracksuits one player said she developed pneumonia and an ear infection.
