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Review: 'Squid Game: The Challenge' brings the tension of Red Light, Green Light to life

Contestants in a scene from Netflix’ s“ Squid Game: The Challenge,” a reality competition series based on the hit show.

I am not a competitive person by nature — or perhaps I just prefer to suppress whatever is competitive in me. You may say that I simply don't like losing, but I don't like winning either, as this requires someone else to lose. It makes me tense.

I'm enchanted as much as anyone by excellence of any sort, but don't need it to be arranged into contests; I've no use for the Emmys, the Oscars, the Grammys, the Tonys, the Nobel or Pulitzer Prizes, or who wins the World Series or the World Cup. This obviously is not a view shared by the

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