Louise Bernard with Alexis Patri 10:42 am, October 13, 2021
The South Korean series "Squid Game", which tells the story of an agonizing survival game, has enjoyed growing success since its release online.
To the point of being now the most watched Netflix original series when it was launched in the history of the streaming platform for movies and series, albeit recent.
The movement seemed well underway.
It's now official:
Squid Game
has the best launch in the history of the Netflix movie and series streaming platform.
The series was viewed by more than 111 million subscribers worldwide in less than a month, according to figures announced by Netflix.
Figures still impossible to verify.
According to the platform,
Squid Game
tops the charts in more than 80 countries, dethroning
The Bridgertons Chronicle
.
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It is therefore a historic success for this South Korean gore series where broke candidates compete in bloody children's games to win a very large sum of money and hope to pay their debts.
A series monitored by the Ministry of National Education
The series not recommended for under 16s.
An important warning, because it seems that the series has inspired some children in schoolyards.
They would have engaged in imitation games of the series, therefore violent.
The "1,2,3 sun" where the losers are hit or whipped.
In the series, they are killed.
However, very isolated cases: one in Belgium, the United Kingdom and one near Nice, according to
Nice-Matin
.
It is therefore not a phenomenon.
But, in France, the Ministry of National Education still sent a warning message to academy directors.