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opens not with games, but with grinding poverty. We meet Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), a divorced father and gambler living with his elderly mother. He is drowning in debt, failing to buy his daughter a birthday gift, and stealing money from his mother’s pension. He is not a hero. He is a loser.

Seeing adults gunned down for moving during a playground game is a visceral metaphor for the cutthroat nature of modern competition. The Stakes: Episode 1 Squid Game