Season 3 began with a chilling reinvention of a childhood classic, hide-and-seek. The rules are simple: Contestants are divided into two teams by the random draw of blue and red balls. The Blue Team, ...

All the Squid Gamegames are dark and twisted spins on a number of classic children’s pastimes, both Korean and international, and each one has a deeper layer of meaning than appears at first glance.

“Squid Game: The Challenge” Season 2 winner Perla Figuereo unpacked her victory, all the tears and heated drama that came with it, plus that big blessing from Trinity Parriman (Player 398). Season 2 ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...