Today's Barbershop Talk podcast is a review of the popular Netflix series 'Squid Game.' The 'Squid Game' series centers on a contest where 456 players, drawn from different walks of life but each deeply in debt, play a set of children's games with deadly penalties for losing for the chance to win a ₩45.6 billion prize.
It is now Netflix's "biggest-ever series at launch" and has garnered over 111 million viewers in less than a month.
We talk about the good, the bad, the ugly and give our rating out of 10.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Mike and Leo talk about their favorite and least favorite characters
- How Hoyeon Jung went from 400k followers on Instagram to over 20 million.
- The possibility of a "real" Squid Games existing today
- Hidden clues/messages throughout the series
- Asian men became fetishized after the show aired
- People of all races embracing the characters from Squid Game
- We give our rating out of 10
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