After pouring hectoliters of cheese into the cloud, offering every possible variant of the Christmas movie – from romantic comedy to animated film – Netflix is now broadcasting a powerful purgative on this day after the holiday. What better way to wash away the taste of chocolate than with a bloodbath? With a sense of reality that the fictitious organizers of the Squid Game (a kind of hopscotch in Korea), would surely appreciate, the platform is now releasing the second season of the Korean series that, three years ago, took the world by surprise, becoming the biggest hit in Netflix history.

You don't need to go very far into these seven episodes to see the obvious: a radical yet spectacular and playful critique of the society of spectacle and gaming must, by the very fact of its success, surrender to the economic laws of spectacle and gaming. Squid Game's first season may have ended on a kind of cliffhanger, but the cliffhanger appeared as an appendix to a perfectly wrapped-up story, an afterword whose sole purpose was to allow the exploitation of the series' eventual success. Netflix, which is accountable to its shareholders, couldn't pass up the opportunity.

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