"456 wants to stop the game," said a Pink Guard way back in 2021, when Squid Game's Seong Gi-hun tried to call off the last round of the sadistic tournament that pits desperate people against each other in deadly children's games for a massive cash prize.
These turned out to be prophetic words: Gi-hun's entire mission across the subsequent two seasons became putting an end to those fatal games. But, looking at the wider entertainment landscape, Player 456 might be left a little crestfallen. This year, survival games have been unstoppable: on both the big and small screen, the genre has taken over.
