Squid Game is a show I can't stop watching, so it's a show I've been waiting for. Usually, I have a pretty hard built-in resistance to bingeing shows. I often think "I should do something else" and go ahead. In squid games it is not so, and I really needed sleep so that I only turned off the TV because it was getting slower. I really wish I had seen it now, but when a new show comes, I can't just slack off at work.

Episodes 1 and 2 followed by some plot spoilers (but if you haven't seen the Squid game at all, for your enjoyment, the super-popular Netflix series, which has only 9 episodes in every space, is already listed as one of the best Netflix shows in 2 weeks on the streaming service 1). It has gained a reputation, and during that time 1 hour of Korean thriller/drama became the topic of the town.

It begins as a story in Seoul, South Korea about his unlucky man named Song Ki・hoon.He lives with his mother, he's up to his eyeballs in debt and is struggling to financially support his daughter. It's not a whole new story, but that's where businessmen come in.

In the rapid fire, in an off-track betting parlor, Gi-hun lost making the money he desperately needed, and we get a picture that he is a gambling addict who always looks over his shoulder for a loan shark. Then, after a mysterious game with a stranger (a person who slaps a lot in the face), he is given a phone number and a card of circles, squares and triangles. Before you wonder if this is the way to buy a PS5, Gi-hun is taken to an unknown location.

And this was the beginning of the game and my eyes got bigger. When Gihun wakes up in a warehouse-like room filled with bunk beds stacked on the ceiling, it is said that 456 people are here, and all play six games. Everyone is dressed in green uniforms, the patches are numbered (001-456), and masked guards appear with white circles, triangles and squares drawn on the masks. And as Gi-hun walked around the room, we began to see some familiar faces.

It was this moment I knew I was going to get hooked on squid games. I usually don't watch much Netflix during the week (pro wrestling, my guilty pleasure, broadcasts live every night of the week, and I almost watch). But when the squid game game was alluded to, I muted pro wrestling.

The mere overview of the creepy set of games run by mystery men tickled all of the itch I have when it comes to TV and movies. You have a mystery box-like premise like lost (what is the game, who is in charge?A sense of premonition of survival (I didn't even know if the squid game would be like Battle Royale), and the story of Gihoon's desperate quest for cash. I immediately realized that I wanted to be done with a squid game by the weekend (I have a birthday gathering to go, and Spoiler sure, Stranger Things has an eerie mystery, Queen's Gambit has reckless behavior, and sex education has Gillian Anderson, but it took me many times to "get in"). There's nothing in the Squid Game to the beloved show that has been a success.

And things got more creepy.

One of the things I really knew about squid games was that there was a huge statue of a young girl.1 I didn't know what role it would play until Episode 1 showed us the most evil game of Red Light, Green Light. The command of execution and stop is issued by a childish voice emanating from the statue, who, after the "red light" is eliminated, still can not stay.

The definition of exclusion in this game is very different from how the kids I knew played red light, green light. The statue has a motion sensor in its eyes and knows when you are moving, and anyone who has not yet stayed is shot down.

When a gun hidden in a small turret around the area fires again and again, the player screams and the rule repeats again. Now, there is an added emphasis for the word "eliminated.""Oh, there's another 1-minute timer that's 5 catches. You can't try and win by going too slowly. You have to move fast enough to beat the clock.

You don't even see bullets coming in, they immediately pierce the body, and a small gush of blood comes out. Most of the players are rushing for a closed exit, and — because they are not all standing still — they are all gunned down.

This, dear readers, was not in advertising. Of course, but it was clear from the get-go to anyone looking at something like this. You do not have 456 competitors to participate in the game, which took place in epic secrecy for a large prize, without a small amount of blood spilling. And we look back to the control room for events where the faces start to disappear as they are eliminated.

And my previous perception — I needed to watch this show to the end — was reaffirmed.

And in these moments, Gi-hun is shocked. Knowing what is almost none of him we know, the audience may wonder if he will survive. But he is so far the main character, so we expect from him.

And, just like the Survivor episode, an alliance is formed. The former classmate Cho Sang・woo, whom Ki-hoon previously recognized, helped him survive with a little bit of information.

And the familiar faces we've seen before (people in the Gi-hun era as gamblers) also need to understand how to survive. Squid game, it is clear, is not just the story of Gi-hun. But it's a new face — that of player Abdul Ali - it gives us the best moments of the red light, green light game: the most breathtaking I've seen in ages I would say more, but surprise is the key to the moment.

How the Squid game knows its way around its audience, and properly builds tension. I was almost stupid and zombie-like in front of the TV. If I had more energy, I would probably have been cheering.

As players reached the finish line and revealed greater, I realized the potential scale of the squid game and the amount needed to complete it. So, at 9 p.m. in the evening, after a rather exhausting day was already over, I saw how many episodes I had left.

If I hadn't watched episode 2 at that point, I would have spent 4 hours overnight on Monday and Tuesday to finish this week's show (the rest of the week is solid reserved, I wasn't planning for a game of Squid — but neither would make that contestant).

Another episode, I thought. I had to see what the second game was.

And when I expected it to zag, the squid game zigged. The second episode brings a lot of emotional weight. Fatalism permeates throughout the entire debate, and the action dies down a little. The more you learn about characters that were once unlikely, the more attractive they become. Sure, we realize that these people may not be the kind of people we want to lend cash or share beer with, but we're probably cheering them on right away.

The show also has a tinge of worker plight, why in short, it has something for everyone when players can risk it all on making it bigger.

But that was the point I had to tap out for the night. Yes, I needed to see what happens next, but I'm not putting my sleep on top of the TV show. That said, I put squid games on top of every other TV. As I mentioned above, I'm demoting pro wrestling to the screen of my little laptop to prioritise the squid game. I don't want this ending to be ruined for me, so I need to watch the squid game as soon as possible. I don't know if the ending is great, but there's a lot of mystery and drama in this series, so I have to devour it.