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I first began watching Squid Game on Netflix a long time ago when it first came out in 2021. It went on to become the most-watched show of all time on Netflix. However, after two episodes, I abandoned the series, mostly because I was too busy, and there were better productions, I thought, on Prime and Netflix. I thus have several options.
- Complete Season One and go on to Two.
- Watch this recap of Season One and go on to Two.
- Play Season One from Episode One and then watch Season Two.
- Don't even bother with Squid Game anymore, after all, I still don't have much time, and there are at least two dozen other series on my watch list, many of them ranked near 100 on Rotten Tomatoes.
- Got 14 Emmy nominations, and won five.
- Squid Game only has 90/74 ratings. And, by the way, Season Two already has scores of 85/63.
- So if my decision is go, might as well watch the entirety of Season One because it is rated higher, and I'll get a renewed sense of the whole picture.
- However, if I watch both seasons, I will spend so many hours.
- Season One: Just about nine hours over nine episodes.
- Season Two: Just over 7 hours for 7 episodes.
- And, yes, there will be a Season 3, which should take about as long. If 8 hours, then I would be spending 24 hours, a whole day, on 3 Seasons of Squid Game.
So let me analyze what I should do.
- Squid Game knocks capitalism and wealth inequity.
- It is dark and vicious, something I don't need or want. It is also a game of death, tempted by cash.
The winner, a good-hearted (yes, I now know who will be the champ in Season One, and because you're reading this, you too) Seong Gi-hun prevails at the cost of his basic belief in the goodness of humanity. That's him to the right.
- In 2021, the 45.6 billion Korea Won (there are 456 contestants) was worth $32 million. Today, $31 million, so the exchange rate on a visit to South Korea has dropped, still not bad, as this amount would pay the annual average salaries for almost 1000 Korean workers.
- Some other comparisons.
- Jeff Bezos makes $1.9 million per hour, or roughly that same $45.6 billion won in a day.
- Elon Musk passed Bezos as the wealthiest person, and the winner of the Squid Game would have to win this game over 12,700 times to accumulate the wealth of Musk.
- If there were 456 contestants, with one winner, then 455 should have died in the game, right?
- Well, yes and no. No because this video said at least 470 died. Why, watch the video.
- I couldn't quite understand that video, so until I do, let this link serve as the official number of deaths: 455.
Well, in conclusion, wondering if I will gain any benefit from 3 Seasons of Squid Game, I don't know. 24 hours seem like a long time. And it took 27 hours to get home from Zurich, and that was an ordeal. Are there any redeeming virtues? Yes, I think so. Thus, I will go back to Episode 1 of Season One, and follow up with Seasons 2 and 3. And in the future, avoid prematurely telling you what happened.
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