Netflix has announced a reality competition show based on the violent hit series with a $4.56m prize and some creepy challenges
but, since it essentially has to be rebuilt from scratch, it is probably another two years away. And given how the last season ended, any new episodes are likely to be radically different from anything we’ve already seen. Success isn’t guaranteed, in other words.of old, despite all this uncertainty? That’s easy. It’s making Squid Game for real.what it billed as the biggest reality show in the history of television.
But this is a gameshow. Netflix has already stated that “the worst fate is going home empty-handed”, which removes pretty much every single ounce of jeopardy from the proceedings. Without the lingering spectre of death, the games – which involve tug of war and scratching a pin against some honeycomb multiple times – have the potential to be staggeringly anticlimactic. You may as well be watching them play Pin the Tail on the Donkey at a village fete.
And yet, I hold out hope. The worst-case scenario is that Squid Game: The Challenge just becomes a kind of Squid Game Secret Cinema, full of the sort of gurning berks who go to any Secret Cinema. But I remain optimistic. If nothing else, this new reality show might actually get around to explaining the rules of the actual Squid Game itself; the final challenge where you have to draw a triangle on the ground and then impenetrably run around it for some reason until one of you dies of boredom.
Also, I love that this is how Netflix plans to bulk out its IP. If a show is popular, it gets to jump genres and become something else. This opens up a world of potential that I can’t wait to see. Maybe we’ll get Stranger Things: The Challenge, where contestants have to solve spooky mysteries while wearing unflattering period wigs.
Or maybe let’s flip it. If a drama series like Squid Game can be turned into a gameshow, then maybe Netflix’s gameshows can become prestigious scripted drama series. Imagine a show based on Floor is Lava, set in a grim dystopia where the floor actually is lava. Or even better, an urgent, expensive 24-style thriller based on Is It Cake, where a clench-jawed Jack Bauer type played by Matt Damon has to save the world by determining whether a shoe is a shoe or some cake.
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