Netflix released a trailer for “Squid Game: The Challenge” on Monday, giving the first full look at the hotly-anticipated reality competition show based on the streamer’s 2021 South Korean hit series “Squid Game.”
Billions of snow crabs have disappeared from the ocean around Alaska in recent years, and scientists now say they know why: Warmer ocean temperatures likely caused them to starve to death.
The unexpected success of “Squid Game” gave a green light to bringing more South Korean dramas to the US, with Paramount establishing a partnership with Seoul-based CJ ENM to do so. The latest fruit of that relationship, “Bargain,” isn’t as compulsively watchable as “Squid Game” but echoes it in one key respect, darkly reflecting a society where life is cheap, and the class divide can be fatal.