There is nothing like a good anti-capitalist utopian work for capitalism to be willing to get its claws on and distort its message. ‘The Squid Game‘, the greatest success in the history of Netflix, will not only have a well-deserved second season but also today it has been known that it will have a reality show in which 456 people will compete who will be able to win… $4.56 million. Take utopia.

Open Casting

It must be said that it is not the highest number that has ever been distributed on television, but it was almost: ‘Jeopardy!’ currently holds the world record. And in this case, Netflix is asking a lot more of the contestants. On their casting page, where there are different categories for American, British, and global contestants, they ask you to shoot for four weeks in early 2023. Come on, unlike most Netflix reality shows, like ‘Insiders’, it seems that this one is going to be taken seriously.

The streaming itself warns -just in case- that here people are not going to die or get hurt, but the winner will take the twine. With a fortune to the winner, who will be an ally, who will you trust, and who will betray you in the ultimate personality challenge? All of this sounds a lot like a kind of massive ‘Survivor’ in which they had better have everything measured to the millimeter: 4.56 million, plus the production itself, is a lot of money … And they’re already a little late.

YouTuber Mr. Beast has already made a life-size Squid Game with a more modest prize: $456,000. Preparing it cost him 3.5 million. The result? More than 257 million views on YouTube. There is no doubt that Netflix has seen a market share here and has jumped at it. Seeing the result of the company’s reality shows so far, which range between the fun and the mediocre, but always with a rather flat visual style, we will have to wait to see if they have learned their lesson by adapting ‘The Squid Game‘ or will it be a simple ‘Guaypaut’ from Mercadona.