As Netflix’s spectacularly point-missing Squid Game: The Challenge crassly indulges in that which its source condemned, conversations about the ethics of reality TV have been reignited. Which gives the second release from Madrid’s Out Of The Blue Games a timely feel – despite it taking place in a 1970sstyled false utopia, and borrowing liberally from a film now 25 years old. The idea of a protagonist who realises there’s a different world beyond the walls of the ones he’s always known, and is forced to choose between blissful ignorance or the brutal truth, is hardly new.
Still, it’s refreshing that
