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Squid Game

August 2024

  • Kathryn Hahn in Agatha All Along, Phil Dunning in Smoggie Queens and Myha’la in Industry.

    Autumn arts preview 2024
    Rivals to Slow Horses: the must-see TV for autumn 2024

    A Jilly Cooper bonkbuster! The successor to Succession! More Gavin and Stacey! Television is going to be incredible this autumn. Here’s a guide to all the unmissable viewing

March 2024

  • Netflix's 'Squid Game' Los Angeles FYSEE Special Event, Raleigh Studios, Los Angeles, California, United States - 13 Jun 2022<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Image Press Agency/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (12983855hu) South Korean actor O Yeong-su (Oh Young-soo) arrives at Netflix's 'Squid Game' Los Angeles FYSEE Special Event held at Raleigh Studios on June 12, 2022 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Netflix's 'Squid Game' Los Angeles FYSEE Special Event, Raleigh Studios, Los Angeles, California, United States - 13 Jun 2022

    Squid Game actor O Yeong-su convicted of sexual harassment

  • The Myeongdong neighbourhood in Seoul at night.

    BTS, Blackpink, Squid Game, kimchi … what’s the secret of South Korea’s world-conquering culture?

December 2023

  • ‘I feel like the sleep deprivation is intentional’ … Alex Hobern on The Circle.

    ‘I was in tears, angry, emotional’: do reality TV shows use sleep deprivation to trigger meltdowns and showdowns?

    Exhaustion, vomiting, brains ‘turning to mush’ … from Love Island to The Apprentice to Squid Game: The Challenge, former contestants reveal how their big TV breaks became waking nightmares
  • ‘Wonderfully, queasily on the nose’ … Squid Game: The Challenge.

    ‘Watch through your fingers’ – Squid Game: The Challenge is the guiltiest TV pleasure of all time

    Impossible to resist and with a revelatory cast, this is the absolute apex of brutal, addictive competition shows. Even if, ultimately, the joke is on us
  • Emma Brockes

    Why Squid Game the gameshow has trapped me with its tentacles – I can’t tear myself away

    Emma Brockes
    The casting is pitch-perfect, the demands on contestants are formidable and there’s an unbelievable amount of prize money on offer. What’s not to love?, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

November 2023

  • Squid Game: The Challenge contestants wearing dark green tracksuits climb a pink staircase around a pink, yellow and green building-like structure, watched over by masked people in red overalls

    Squid Game: The Challenge contestants threaten legal action against Netflix and producers

    Reality gameshow participants got ‘hypothermia’ and ‘injuries’ when filming in Bedfordshire, two claim
  • Squid Game: The Challenge

    TV review
    Squid Game: The Challenge review – the most gripping reality TV since The Traitors

    The real-life version of the Netflix drama is a grandiose, addictive spectacle that will have you shouting at your TV before the end of episode one. Expect treachery, hilarity and a $4.5m jackpot

    • The Guide newsletter
      The Guide #113: Could the Squid Game spinoff usher in a new era of big money gameshows?

    • ‘I had no idea it would be so painful!’ Could you survive the real-life Squid Game?

    • Making Squid Game reality TV show posed problem of how to ‘shoot’ players

September 2023

  • Squid Game: The Challenge. Cr. Pete Dadds/Netflix © 2023

    Is it time to say goodbye to the binge watch?

  • Tim Adams

    Notebook
    An AI Game of Thrones prequel? No wonder George RR Martin’s raining ice and fire on ChatGPT

    Tim Adams

August 2023

  • From l-r Squid Game, Sex Education and The Woman in the Wall.

    Autumn arts preview 2023
    Squid Game gets real and Sex Education comes to a bittersweet end: autumn 2023’s top TV

    The return of Frasier! An explosive doc about the heyday of the 90s supermodels! Wagatha Christie! Brace for loads of incredible television

March 2023

  • Yomi Adegoke

    Reality checked
    Size matters! Why reality TV is obsessed with daft numbers of contestants

    Yomi Adegoke
    The way to make tired formats seem bold and exciting? Stick in 100 participants! Or at least the makers of Physical: 100 and Dance 100 certainly think so …

January 2023

  • Squid Game Season 1 Episode 1 production still

    Netflix denies any Squid Game reality show contestants have suffered ‘serious injury’

    Streaming giant says three people were treated for mild conditions while filming competition based on hit South Korean drama, after contestant claims ‘it was like a war zone’

December 2022

  • From left … India Ria Amarteifio in Queen Charlotte, Lily-Rose Depp in The Idol and Sarah Lancashire in Happy Valley.

    2023 culture preview
    The 35 must-see TV shows to look forward to in 2023

    A hardy period drama from Shane Meadows, a Frasier reboot and the fourth series of Succession – here’s a rundown of all the new year’s unmissable telly

November 2022

  • O Yeong-su waving at an event.

    Squid Game actor O Yeong-su charged with sexual misconduct

  • Spy’s the limit … Lee Jung-jae.

    Lee Jung-jae: ‘Squid Game made me rethink how I look at the world’

October 2022

  • South Korean boy band BTS performing during a live concert in Busan in October 2022.

    The Guardian view on Korean soft power: harder than it looks

    Editorial: Pop music and TV shows might not sound like a serious business, but public diplomacy matters – whatever form it comes in
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