Netflix's hit 2021 series Squid Game unnerved and tantalized millions of viewers worldwide by putting the full range of less than estimable human emotions under the microscope.
The fictional Korean game show followed 456 contestants who were put into the world's most high-stakes game: the prize winning was 4.56 billion won (£28.2 million), but the penalty for losing was death. With so much to gain and so much to lose, the contestants morphed into crueller, lying, cheating, back-stabbing versions of themselves as they fought to the death to win the life-changing sum of money.
