‘The Squid Game’ It was an anti-capitalist metaphor that Netflix decided to turn into a real contest with the biggest prize in television history., 4.56 million dollars. Starting from this base, nothing could go well in this version of the series that a few months ago began a supposed worldwide casting process. But now that the shooting is over, contestants can talk about their experience and how the production was caught cheating. In case Netflix had few problems now.
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Speaking to Vice and Rolling Stone, the participants did not give their names, but they did They recounted an experience that in itself could be part of a terrific series. As soon as they arrived at the hotel where they stayed before recording, they already noticed a clear disorganization, but at least this was not premeditated. What came next, yes it was. It’s logical not to be able to take care of 456 participants, but it’s as easy as… not setting up a program where you have to.
The first test, based on ‘Green Light, Red Light’, It was recorded in a hangar at ten degrees below zero, where the contestants spent three hours waiting to enter the set. And that’s where some contestants began to realize that some of the microphones they gave were real and others were fake… And that not everyone did the casting. Different influencers, TikTok stars, pairs of twins or parents and children were selected by production without the need to go through any process. But there was still more.
Chatting with the contestants, many realized they already had pre-booked flights home, as if they knew who was going to leave before and who was going to leave later. If it’s a competition, no one knows who’s going to win, right? How little the production team cared about the contestants was evident in the test itself.
It was freezing. I couldn’t move and I was trying to keep my body from shivering because it was below zero. They told us we would be quiet for ten minutes. To pass the time, I sang to myself and soon realized that 25-30 minutes had passed. We would move for five seconds and be still for another twenty minutes. After an hour and a half someone collapsed behind me. Another contestant called a doctor and was eliminated for moving. I still thought it was a game. I was thinking “Should I be a nice person, yell ‘Doc’ and risk elimination?”.
People began to fall, asking for medical attention all the time… until some contestants realized they were just extras in the contest, and production was going to do everything possible for those who had already selected to pass: “There were eliminated people who passed by me saying ‘This shit is a fool. I haven’t moved.’ And then I saw people moving and not getting eliminated.” In fact, they extended the time limit for a mother managed to spend with her daughter and thus have a good time to the audience at home
Back at the hotel, there was a lack of food (and what was there was of no quality), some of the eliminated contestants were arguing with production to get them back on the show and chaos was the permanent note. And what’s worse is that the show itself didn’t realize that the actual dramatic stories they were looking for were right under their noses.
There were people who left their jobs. That is the saddest part. They were made to believe that we all had a fair chance of winning the money. It was already scripted. They knew in advance the people they wanted in the next round. That’s the most fucked up part.
In the end, the contestants who already had the return flight purchased before the start of the program returned home, leaving the filming of what they called ‘Rigged game’ (‘The game of the tongo’). It’s still for us to see, but it’s possible that giving a prize of 4.56 million for such a poorly thought out show was not Netflix’s best idea. Or, as former contestants call it, Net Fix.