Squid Game
It's from 2021, when you were 15.
- Network
- Netflix
- Genre
- Survival thriller
- Origin
- South Korea
- Premiered
- 2021
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About
As of 2026, it's 5 years old.
Squid Game became the biggest show in Netflix history almost overnight, a South Korean thriller in which desperate, debt-ridden contestants play deadly versions of childhood games for a life-changing cash prize. Beneath the brutal premise is a pointed, serious critique of crushing economic inequality.
Its striking imagery — the green tracksuits, the giant doll, the masked guards — became instant global icons, and it turned a sharp piece of social commentary into a planet-wide phenomenon.
Gripping, unsettling, and bleakly resonant, Squid Game is the show that wrapped a furious message about inequality in a deadly playground and conquered the world with it.
Squid Game season by season
Squid Game ran for 3 seasons (2021–2025) across 22 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
