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The Guardian
8 hours ago
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
The Bear to Squid Game: the seven best shows to stream this week
After a peerless first two seasons of the hit Chicago restaurant drama, there was a sense that it was beginning to coast by the third. Can we expect the strained situation between Jeremy Allen White's highly-strung Carmy and ambitious sous chef Sydney (Ayo Edebiri) to be resolved this time round? The Bear's drama has always derived from the claustrophobia of its working environment – the characters are as close as family and equally prone to explosive emotions. As the restaurant's horizons widen, Carmy faces the realisation that certain changes, while painful to contemplate, might also be necessary. A promisingly primed pressure cooker. Disney+, from Thursday 26 June The rebellion has failed but the game goes on. The inventive dystopian drama nears its endgame, and the horror is becoming more inescapable. The thwarted uprising has done wonders for the prize fund but, for reasons he can't understand, its psychologically shattered instigator Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) has not been killed and is back in the contest. But does hope lie in the guards' work room which has been infiltrated? Squid Game feels less subtle as a satire as it reaches its climax but, as betrayals multiply and alliances are destroyed, the sense of an ending raises the dramatic stakes considerably. Netflix, from Friday 27 June This jaw-dropping documentary offers the stinky lowdown on an ill-fated 2013 pleasure cruise. At first, the passengers on the inaptly named Carnival Triumph (who included hen parties and couples on the holiday of a lifetime) were having a blast. But then the power went out, the toilets backed up and everything went a bit Triangle of Sadness. Soon, fights were breaking out, food was running out and urine and excrement began seeping out of the sewage system, up through the plugholes and into the carpets. Equal parts hilarious and watch-through-your-fingers gross. Netflix, from Tuesday 24 June The central premise of Ryan Coogler's latest expansion of the Wakanda universe is like a homage to Iron Man. Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne, the first Black woman to lead a Marvel series) is a restless MIT student with a desire to create something new. Or she could just recreate something old. In cahoots with maverick criminal Parker Robbins (Anthony Ramos), she combines technology with magic and unleashes something she can't control. But Ironheart doesn't feel like vintage Marvel, despite Thorne's spirited performance. Disney+, from Wednesday 25 June Sign up to What's On Get the best TV reviews, news and features in your inbox every Monday after newsletter promotion An LGBTQ+ spin-off from the dating series that offers a drastic solution to relationships in flux. These six couples all contain one partner who is ready for long-term commitment and another with reservations. The show sends them away to live with other possible partners, on the basis that clarity will emerge. But it wouldn't be good TV if that was always the case, and that's sometimes an ethical problem – some people leave more confused than when they arrived, particularly when the additional dimension of family disapproval of same-sex relationships is involved. Netflix, from Wednesday 25 June There's a slightly odd tone to this drama, which attempts to function as a law enforcement thriller while occasionally seeming to parody that genre. When an LAPD detective is killed, the hunt for the assailant leads cops into even darker waters as they learn that a 'Chernobyl-level event' is being planned in LA. 'Our mission could prevent another 9/11,' says one, excitedly. Cue a series of wild car chases, extensive gunplay and absurd feats of undercover derring do, all undercut by sly, slightly knowing winks. Jensen Ackles and Jennifer Camacho star. Prime Video, from Wednesday 25 June Three years after collaborating on underrated drama Black Bird, actor Taron Egerton and writer Dennis Lehane reunite for this thriller about arson investigator Dave Gudson (Egerton) and detective Michelle Calderone (Jurnee Smollett), who has been assigned to help him catch two serial arsonists. Initially, it's a slow burn as the paranoid pair (she's a traumatised ex-marine while he's seen too many blazes) learn to trust each other. But things hot up: the identity of one of the perpetrators is quickly apparent but his motives reveal themselves gradually. Apple TV+, from Friday 27 June
Yahoo
13 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
'Squid Game' Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk Teases 'Possibility' of a Spinoff Ahead of Final Season
Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk told PEOPLE there's a "possibility" for a spinoff of the hit Netflix series While he said there are no additional details at the moment for "when and how" it happens, he said "there is a chance" Squid Game returns for its third and final season on June 27The Squid Game universe could be expanding. Hwang Dong-hyuk — the South Korean creator and writer-director of the hit Netflix series — spoke to PEOPLE exclusively at the season 3 premiere on Wednesday, June 18, at The Plaza Hotel in New York City, where he teased that there's "possibility" of a spinoff. "I cannot just tell right now when and how it's going to happen," he said. "But there is a chance." Season 3 is set to pick up right where the previous season left off, with Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) — a.k.a. Player 456 — licking his wounds after he and some of his fellow contestants attempted an ill-fated rebellion against those running the Squid Game competition. The story left off with the players' revolt failing, Hwang In-ho (Lee Byung-hun) revealing himself as The Front Man and the murder of Park Jung-bae (Lee Seo-hwan) right in front of Gi-hun. "The third and final season of Squid Game follows Gi-hun after losing his best friend in the game and being driven to utter despair by The Front Man, who was hiding his true identity to infiltrate the game," the official season 3 synopsis reads. The synopsis continues, "Gi-hun persists with his goal to put an end to the game, while the Front Man continues onto his next move and the surviving players' choices will lead to graver consequences with each round." "Why didn't you kill me? Why did you keep me alive? Why did you let me live?" Gi-hun screams in the clip as he's restrained. We also see the surviving players forced to finish out the Squid Game — including a twisted and deadly round of jump rope — that they were participating in before the rebellion. The trailer ends with Gi-hun being escorted to the control room to come face to face with The Front Man once again. "Player 456, do you still have faith in people?" The Front Man asks Gi-hun as it comes to a close. Squid Game season 3 streams June 27 on Netflix. Read the original article on People
Gizmodo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
The Creator of ‘Squid Game' Wants the Games to Get Even Worse In the Final Season
Netflix's runaway hit, Squid Game, will soon make its grand return with its third and final season. Ahead of its release, creator Hwang Dong-hyuk revealed the games to come will push Lee Jung-jae's Seong Gi-hun and the surviving players to their absolute limit and send the series out with a bang. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Hwang said the show will capitalize on the hopelessness Gi-hun and crew are wallowing in after their failed rebellion by participating in games that will expose the darkest aspects of human nature. 'In the case of season 3, I wanted to introduce games that could really show the lowest bottom of human beings, because the series itself is reaching its climax,' Hwang said. 'I wanted very intense games to bring out the bottom parts of human nature.' As EW notes, Hwang curated a list of childhood games to refer back to throughout the Emmy-award-winning series. Squid Game season 3 will see even more childhood games with a murderous twist added to them. However, one theme of the games that Hwang wanted to spotlight is reintroducing games where the literal height of them will play a pivotal role in all the stomach-churning anxiety. 'In season 1, we had lots of games like Tug of War that really utilized height and the fear that this height gives, but in the case of season 2, we didn't have that element,' Hwang said. 'That is why in season 3, I decided to introduce games that could infuse fear in people with sheer height.' While Hwang kept the particulars of what those games Gi-hun will have to endure under wraps, Netflix's dropping the official teaser trailer for the show does give us an inkling of what some of those games might entail. One moment in the trailer shows the players receiving blue and pink balls from a candy machine, denoting a team-based battle that will split the mother-son duo of Geum-ja (Kang Ae-sim) and Yong-sik (Yang Dong-geun). Another glimpse of the forthcoming season showed the players walking a maze and Cho Hyun-ju (Park Sung-hoon) preparing to throw hands. Granted, none of these sneak peeks showcased any heights in the game. However, emotions appear to be at an all-time high in the final season when you consider the baby wail at the butt-end of the trailer—all but confirming Kim Jun-hee (Jo Yuri) will give birth at the worst possible time. As he has stated in the past, Hwang reiterated that Squid Game season 3 will serve as the show's final season. However, speaking with the Hollywood Reporter in January, Hwang did leave the door open to revisit the series through a spin-off, should an opportunity arise. 'The third season will really explore that sense of loss and failure, that guilt weighing so heavily on Gi-hun. How's he going to navigate the story further with all of that weighing down on him? Personally, I see the third season as being the finale to this story,' Hwang told THR. 'That's because I believe I've had closure to the story I wanted to tell about society through the character of Seong Gi-hun. If I ever wanted to go back to the world of Squid Game, it would be about different characters with a different story arc. Some kind of spinoff, maybe.' In io9's review for Squid Game 2, we walked away liking parts of the show, despite its shorter episode count, more than we disliked, highlighting pivotal moments like the iconic Russian roulette scene, its new cast of memorable characters, and, of course, Thanos. However, parts of the episode season we didn't jive with revolved around the show spending way too much time on boat antics with Jun-ho, it's Empire Strikes Back middle-story syndrome, and the games themselves being just alright. Hopefully, Hwang will stay true to his word on upping the ante of the deadly children's games with Squid Game Season 3 when it premieres on Netflix on June 27.
South China Morning Post
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- South China Morning Post
K-drama casting news about Lee Jung-jae, Seo Yea-ji, Lee Joon-hyuk and more
One of the most popular K-dramas of all time is set to return, a star makes a long-awaited comeback, and new occult and medical dramas get ready for production. Advertisement Read on for more about these stories and other news of casting for coming Korean drama series. 1. Reborn Rich season 2 Song Joong-ki, pictured in a still from the first season of Reborn Rich, will be joined by Squid Game's Lee Jung-jae in season 2. Photo: JTBC Although it has not been made official that Lee will star in the series, he will be involved to some degree because Artist Company, the production company and management agency he owns, will take part in development of the new season. Reborn Rich, which starred Song Joong-ki as a loyal corporate lackey who was left for dead, then reincarnated as the grandson of the company's chairman, achieved a staggering 27 per cent viewership rating, the highest ever for a Korean cable drama series. Season two of the show will reportedly expand its focus to a global corporation. Advertisement Artist Company's sister company, Artist United, now controls the IP of Reborn Rich after it acquired the show's producer, RaemongRaein, last year.
