+1 for subtitled
I enjoyed it, but
The participants in the game, with the possible exception of the North Korean defector and the Indian immigrant, are pretty much failures in life. They are gambling addicts, incompetent doctors, failed priests. That is why they are lured into the game. They are horrible people, and this really comes out in the game with constant betrayals.
The lead character is one of the most annoying and pathetic of them all, right up until the end.
He only has one person in his life who depends on him, wants him, and he lets her down completely. Arsehole.
It is good that they maintain consistency, but annoying that he learns nothing from his experience.
Whereas the superficially kindly old gentleman turns out to be anything but.
It troubles me that many people seem to think that "this is great".
It seems to escape them that the principle characters have lost out in society, they all have gambling issues (gambling directly, gambling with other people's money) or have lost money and power by ripping off other people. They are dregs, tbh. (Just to be clear, I don't put people in the category of 'dregs' because they are badly off, but because of their behaviour. One of the worst in the Squid Game is one of the wealthiest.)
Maybe there is something about the concept of ripping people off, being abusive and destructive, being rewarded that appeals to many.
As previously agreed on this thread the consistency of behaviour of one of the main characters, right to the end, has an appeal, in that it recognises that is very difficult for people to change.
What do I get out of it? It is a good program in exactly the same sense that Lord of the Flies is a good book. All too believable extremes of human behaviour.