These 4 series are perfect to watch after season 2 of Squid Gamerecently released on Netflix.
Season 2 of Squid Game is only 7 episodes long, with a somewhat frustrating ending. So, while waiting for season 3 of the famous Korean series, here are other works in the same vein to watch on Netflix and Prime Video.
Alice in Borderland (Netflix)
Squid Game et Alice in Borderland are often compared, even if the first is Korean and the second is Japanese. They have a common principle: drawing their source from Battle Royale (the 1999 novel, then the film), they are survival where games are deadly.
In Alice in Borderlanda teenage video game fan is thrown with his friends into an alternative Tokyo, which at first seems completely deserted. They eventually discover that the city is plagued by games that must be won to stay alive. A particularly violent dystopian Japanese series, even more than Squid Gamethat is to say.
The 8 Show (Netflix)
Upon its release, The 8 Show was immediately described as a slightly more sociological version of Squid Gameas the two Korean series have points in common in their denunciation of capitalism and extreme entertainment. Eight candidates, eight floors, and an amount of money that increases as the hours go by… what is behind this strange game?
Celebrity
Want to see Park Gyu-young again, the one who plays the masked guard in season 2 of Squid Game ? This is good: Celebrity also looks at a brutal world of pretense, that of celebrity on social networks, that of glory, that of power. Because Seo A Ri gains fame overnight, as a new influencer, and finds herself confronted with moral dilemmas that she sometimes provokes herself. A series that is darker than it seems.
3% (Netflix)
This Brazilian dystopian series from 2016 is relatively little known, a sort of little nugget hidden in the Netflix catalog. It has a complete story spanning four seasons.
In the dystopian future of 3%the world is divided between the poor, living in a sort of slum, on an arid land, and the rich, living in the luxury of an island. To access the wealth layer, games are organized. Only 3% of competitors will reach higher status, by winning the events.
Death’s Game / The Game of Death (Prime Video)
A game imagined by death itself, personified. Overwhelmed by the country’s social and economic pressures, Choi Yi Jae decides to end his life. But Death—death—feels insulted by this contempt for the act of dying. She forces him to relive death in 13 other lives. Each time, he embodies the body of someone on the verge of death. At the end of these 13 lives, he will go to hell; but if he escapes death in one of them, Death will offer him to live this life to the end. How will he get out of it? The Game of Death was a critically acclaimed, action-packed Korean drama on Prime Video.
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