Squid Game is a popular South Korean Netflix series about financially burdened people who risk their lives playing deadly children's games for the chance to win 45.6 billion won. The games put players' lives in grave danger, forcing them to kill each other to survive. Those running the games treat the players inhumanely for entertainment. While the intense drama intrigues some viewers, the series is also brutally violent and inhumane to watch as it exploits desperate people willing to die for money.