Netflix has dropped a giant turd on my industry again. This article debunks the claims made and wraps up with recommendations for those who choose to follow a vegan diet. There are plenty of legitimate reasons (ethical, environmental, religious) someone may choose to follow a vegan diet health and performance can’t be considered among them. Netflix benefits their view count from the outrage the backers (James Cameron, among them) benefit financially from their vegan product investments. Or maybe I’m just a heartless bastard.‘The Game Changers’ documentary is little more than a cleverly-disguised attempt to scare people into being vegan with false health and performance claims. You signed up for a Squid Game reality TV show! You’re competing for the kind of money that makes you stupid rich overnight! In gamer parlance, maybe it’s time to just git gud. Safety still matters on a show like this.īut am I alone in finding all of this a bit amusing in a macabre sort of way? Maybe I’m just a bad person for getting a bit of a laugh out of this, but come on people. And if medics really did have to come in for people “convulsing on the floor” from the cold (which is a weird reaction to the cold, but okay) then that’s also not great. If reports that it’s rigged are true (contestants claim that they made it across the line in Red Light, Green Light and were still eliminated but there’s no way to verify this) then that’s definitely bad. What’s the fun in a reality TV show based on a game as deadly and horrific as Squid Game if there’s not a bit of suffering involved? Nobody should actually die, obviously, but I suspect a lot of people would be willing to freeze their asses off for the chance at $4.56 million in prize money-the largest ever for a show like this. This is Squid Game: The Challenge and it’s designed to be miserable. But neither is it a game show like Jeopardy or Wheel Of Fortune. Sure, it’s not Survivor, as they point out. I admit, I have a hard time mustering a great deal of sympathy for contestants in this particular show given the nature of the source material and the weighty prize. “It was the incompetencies of scale - they bit off more than they could chew.” “All the torment and trauma we experienced wasn’t due to the game or the rigor of the game,” another former player adds. “We were a human horse race, and they were treating us like horses out in the cold racing and was fixed.” “It was just the cruelest, meanest thing I’ve ever been through,” one former contestant told the magazine. Rolling Stone has a separate report of the “cruel” and “rigged” games: The producers of the show also claim that they’ve taken safety and health concerns seriously, so we’re dealing with a bit of he said/she said at this point. Apparently medics were called at one point, though Netflix denies this. A number of contestants collapsed on set - likely due to a combination of cold and fatigue from the eight hours of prep time before the game even started.Ĭontestants, speaking anonymously, described a game where they had to hold a static pose for upwards of 30 minutes. cold snap that saw temperatures drop to zero degrees Celsius in Bedford on the day of filming. All of this was carried out in an unforgiving U.K. Contestants - who weren’t paid to participate in the series - say they were told the actual game would take roughly two hours to play and shoot, but instead that turned into an almost seven-hour ordeal for some contenders.
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