TALK TO YOUR KIDS ABOUT ...

 Families can talk about intense violence as seen in Squid Game. A character enjoys
seeing people in pain. How does seeing violence like that influence how you think
of human nature?

 Characters in this series are in debt, often because they're addicted to gambling.
Are there addictions that are of concern to you?

 Characters in this series smoke. What can you do to help keep your friends and
family from smoking? 

TV DETAILS

 Premiere date: September 17, 2021

 Cast: Greg Chun, Stephen Fu, Paul Nakauchi

 Network: Netflix

 Genre: Action

 Topics: Adventures, Friendship, Misfits and Underdogs

 TV rating: TV-MA

 Available on: Streaming

 Last updated: September 21, 2021

 Squid Game. Youngkyu Park

 This post contains spoilers for Squid Game.
 The first half-hour of Netflix’s new top-ranked show, Squid Game, introduces Seong Gi-
hun (Lee Jung-jae), a middle-aged gambler so down on his luck that he steals money
from his elderly mom and gives his young daughter a gun-shaped cigarette lighter for her
birthday, because it was the only thing he could get out of the claw machine where he
inserted his last coins. After meeting a well-dressed recruiter in a train station, Gi-hun
agrees to a money-making opportunity. He gets in a van, is knocked out by gas, and
wakes up in a dorm with more than 400 others. A voice from a loudspeaker tells them
that they will compete for a lot of cash—how much, they don’t find out quite yet, but it
turns out to be 45.6 billion South Korean won, or about 38 million American dollars—by
playing children’s games.