In late September, Netflix launched Hwang Dong-hyuk’s nine-episode collection Squid Game. It didn’t take lengthy for the present to catch on; by October, social media couldn’t cease speaking about “Red Light, Green Light,” and individuals who’d beforehand by no means pictured themselves watching a brutal South Korean survival-horror present had begun plotting out their numbered-sweatsuit Halloween costumes. A sensation due to its cautious and suspenseful plotting, characters who stored revealing shocking new layers, stunning violence, and immediately viral plot factors—we all know what dalgona sweet is now, umbrella-shaped or not—Squid Game broke Netflix data and reminded us that typically, the most effective leisure can seem seemingly out of nowhere, with no massive Hollywood names to hype it up, and change into the factor you simply can’t cease binge-watching.