Which Squid Game challenge would you have been worst at? While we heard rumblings of how popular Squid Game was on Netflix, nothing prepared us for the actual numbers. CNN is reporting that the show has been viewed by 111 million accounts since debuting on Netflix on Sept. 17, 2021. That's a staggering amount of eyeballs on one show. Considering that's over 50% of Netflix's 209 million totally subscribers, it truly is a global phenomenon. Minyoung Kim, Netflix's vice president of content for Asia Pacific (excluding India), told CNN, "When we first started investing in Korean series and films in 2015, we knew we wanted to make world-class stories for the core K-content fans across Asia and the world. Today, Squid Game has broken through beyond our wildest dreams." So what made a show like this catch on and become a household name? What made it cross-cultural, so language barriers felt irrelevant across the world? Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 14 October, 2021