We Review & Rate Popular Netflix Series 'Squid Game' *Spoilers* (achieving global success, becoming Netflix's biggest-ever series at launch, Asian men becoming fetishized, people of all races embracing the series & more) | [Barbershop Talk]

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Today's Barbershop Talk podcast is a review of the popular Netflix series 'Squid Game.' The 'Squid Game' series centers on a contest where 456 players, drawn from different walks of life but each deeply in debt, play a set of children's games with deadly penalties for losing for the chance to win a ₩45.6 billion prize.

It is now Netflix's "biggest-ever series at launch" and has garnered over 111 million viewers in less than a month.

We talk about the good, the bad, the ugly and give our rating out of 10.

In this episode, we discuss:

- Mike and Leo talk about their favorite and least favorite characters

- How Hoyeon Jung went from 400k followers on Instagram to over 20 million.

- The possibility of a "real" Squid Games existing today

- Hidden clues/messages throughout the series

- Asian men became fetishized after the show aired

- People of all races embracing the characters from Squid Game

- We give our rating out of 10

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