Netflix confirms second series of Squid Game Challenge and here's how to apply

08 December 2023 , 12:43

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Netflix confirms second series of Squid Game Challenge and here's how to apply

Netflix's Squid Game: The Challenge was hailed as the "most gripping reality TV since The Traitors ", so it's hardly surprising that a second series of the show has been confirmed.

Unlike the Korean thriller, participants do not lose their life. Instead, they are simply eliminated and miss out on the chance of bagging the cash prize of £3.66million. Viewers have seen contestants use a series of manipulative methods to get closer to winning the cash prize, as every elimination adds £8,000 to the prize fund. Now, the ruthless reality TV show is set to launch their casting net wide ahead of the second series. And here's how to apply.

Squid Game: The Challenge has been confirmed for a second series (COURTESY OF NETFLIX)

The first step is to visit the website www.squidgamecasting.com. However, before proceeding you need to be at least 21 years old and provide background information which will include; name, address, contact details and a reason for wanting to join the show. The application process will also require an insight into your game plan.

Like most reality TV shows, a submission video is also required which should showcase your personality and inform show bosses the reason why you want to join the show as well as demonstrate your ability to grasp the concept of the Squid Game series. After submitting your application, it's key to realise that it can take a while to be contacted, so patience is paramount.

And, if successful, further screening is required which will also include psychological evaluations, physical tests, and background checks. TV critics have been left incredibly impressed with the show, so much so, one critic for The Guardian described it as "addictive."

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Contestants battle it out to win the huge cash prize (Netflix)

He wrote: "The real-life version of the Netflix drama is a grandiose, addictive spectacle that will have you shouting at your TV before the end of episode one. Squid Game: The Challenge not only works, but may turn out to be the most gripping reality TV since The Traitors."

And The Telegraph said the reality TV show "loses none of the tension or intrigue." It added: "With money at stake, rather than life itself, some of the cooped-up politicking in the middle episodes smacks wearily of Big Brother. Other passages of play lean too heavily on popularity contests. But by the final few episodes the tension, intrigue and antagonism are bubbling to the boil. I’ve seen eight of the 10 episodes and am agog to discover how ruthless the last dollar-driven survivors can be."

The Independent likened the Netflix show to that of BBC's The Traitors. Their review read: "For all that the ghost of its Korean cousin sticks in the mind, this is little more than a combination of The Traitors and Takeshi’s Castle. The fear of death and anti-capitalist themes may have been replaced by a rabid consumerism (an apt metaphor for modern America, if not an intentional one), but Squid Game: The Challenge is obviously an epic of its genre. Like most epics, it’s overlong, overblown, and thinks it’s much smarter than it really is. But as a showcase for human desperation, and an illustration of the random brutality of chance, it just about sticks the landing."

Lucretia Munro