There's a very good reason that Squid Game is Netflix's big new success story | Channel24
Hoping to win easy money, a broke and desperate Gi-hun agrees to take part in an enigmatic game. Not long into the first round, unforeseen horrors unfold.We'd all line up on one side of the yard and race towards the finish line on the other. The first to cross would be crowned the winner. The twist, of course, was that an appointed"traffic cop" had to call out the words"red light" or"green light" while the players stormed full speed ahead.
Written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, the series had a lowkey launch early in September and has since garnered massive success, even threatening to dethrone the current Netflix champ, . A feat that even caught Netflix off-guard with the streaming giant's co-CEO and chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, telling Variety:"We did not see that coming, in terms of its global popularity."Making A Murderer
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