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'Squid Game: The Challenge' looks eerily like the fictional Netflix drama that inspired it

"Squid Game," the class-conscious 2021 Netflix sensation, asked viewers a cynical question: How far would you go, or how much would you endure, for a large sum of money? Now, viewers can get a glimpse of people asking themselves the same thing in real life in the upcoming reality competition show "Squid Game: The Challenge," which dropped its first teaser trailer Friday. The reality show, ...
“Squid Game: The Challenge” was shot in the U.K. earlier this year and included more than 400 contestants.

"Squid Game," the class-conscious 2021 Netflix sensation, asked viewers a cynical question: How far would you go, or how much would you endure, for a large sum of money?

Now, viewers can get a glimpse of people asking themselves the same thing in real life in the upcoming reality competition show "Squid Game: The Challenge," which dropped its first teaser trailer Friday. The reality show, which streams starting Nov. 22,

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