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Seong Gi-hun is down on his luck — as are at least 455 other people in South Korea who accept an offer to escape financial hardship by playing a series of children’s games. The catch? Only one person can win the ₩45.6 billion (and growing) grand prize, and anybody who loses dies.

Squid Game, a thrilling and dark indictment of capitalism and class disparity from South Korean creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, became Netflix’s most-watched series shortly after its September 2021 premiere, and it is the first non-English language series to be nominated for Best Drama at the Emmys. Lee Jung-jae, Park Hae-soo, Wi Ha-joon, HoYeon Jung, O Yeong-su, Heo Sung-tae, Anupam Tripathi, and Kim Joo-ryoung star.

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Episode 9 One Lucky Day

Squid Game Season-Finale Recap: You Are the Horses A winner emerges, but the game continues.
Episode 8 Front Man

Squid Game Recap: You Aren’t That Kind of Person Gi-hun and Sang-woo finally have it out, and there is no coming back for them.
Episode 7 VIPS

Squid Game Recap: A Different Kind of Fun As Gi-hun and Sae-byeok hold onto their last shreds of humanity, Sang-woo goes full villain mode.
Episode 6 Gganbu

Squid Game Recap: Your Stories Are Way Too Dark A brutal twist forces the players to place their lives in the hands of those they’ve come to trust the most.
Episode 5 Stick to the Team

Squid Game Recap: Last Chance to Fight Fair and Win An exposition-heavy episode gives us more insight into Jun-ho’s investigation and Gi-hun’s backstory.
Episode 4 Stick to the Team

Squid Game Recap: Lights Out Alliances are broken just as quickly as they’re formed. Then again, how much can you trust other players in a death game for millions of dollars?

Episode 3 The Man with the Umbrella

Squid Game Recap: I’m Screwed While the episode serves as a coming out party for Mi-nyeo and her chaotic gameplay, Sae-byeok is the episode’s MVP.
Episode 2 Hell

Squid Game Recap: Out There, I Don’t Stand a Chance The game is paused, and we get a glimpse of everyone’s tragic and debt-riddled lives.
Episode 1 Red Light, Green Light

Squid Game Series-Premiere Recap: Don’t Get Hurt Too Bad Netflix’s South Korean survival drama is a brilliantly nasty series that plunges its characters into a mysterious, deadly game for $39 million.

Episode 7 Friend or Foe

Squid Game Season-Finale Recap: Don’t Hate the Player So many questions I’ve had throughout the season remain unanswered.
Episode 6 O X

Squid Game Recap: What Goes Around Comes Around A sick and twisted game makes for the most gripping episode of Squid Game since “Gganbu.”
Episode 5 One More Game

Squid Game Recap: Friendly Fire The displays of teamwork and camaraderie would feel much better if they didn’t come with a side of betrayal.
Episode 4 Six Legs

Squid Game Recap: Inner Circle Gi-hun’s efforts to keep everyone safe continue to be mostly in vain.
Episode 3 001

Squid Game Recap: Majority Rules Gi-hun is back in the game, but nothing could have prepared him for the ultimate twist: democracy.
Episode 2 Halloween Party

Squid Game Recap: Still Pregaming While this exposition-heavy episode still doesn’t get Gi-hun back to the game, it lays the final groundwork.

Episode 1 Bread and Lottery

Squid Game Season-Premiere Recap: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shoot Gi-hun is on a mission to take down the people running the game. First up: the unhinged salesman

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