A population riven in two, but bound to the same fate. Individuals whose identities are reduced to the faction they’ve chosen, red or blue. And the bitterly contested stakes: prosperity or death.
Sound familiar?
“I want to highlight the theme of taking sides,” Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk says of the major motif for season two of his international hit series, in which people in personal financial crisis engage in a battle royale for the chance to win a life-saving sum of money. Hwang is standing in the show’s enormous dormitory inside the belly of Studio Cube, Korea’s largest production facility, about 100 miles south of Seoul. While the familiar set still features rows of bunk beds stacked halfway up to the ceiling like scaffolding, it’s impossible to overlook a new feature: a giant blue “O” and red “X” illuminated on the floor, with corresponding blue and
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