What Squid Game's Emmy Wins Mean For The Future Of Diverse Television

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Nearly everywhere that Squid Game was released, it almost immediately developed a large fan following. From the impressive and reflective makeup, graphics, and costumes, to the underlying theme which discretely makes a lesson out of the brutal gore and violence, the show is exactly what an action drama series should be. This praise carried over into this year’s Emmys as the show was nominated for 14 awards and won 6 of them.

A couple of these awards were particularly prestigious and earned the series the honor of being the first foreign-language drama series to receive them. Aside from making history and going home with awards, the show likely inspired many other filmmakers across the world to pursue sharing their work globally, without the fear of it being poorly dubbed and that hurting how it’s received.

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What set this series apart from others is how well it used the bad side of people– the darkness of humanity– to reflect how vital human connection and community are. Squid Game criticizes the broken parts of society by making them the standard or the norm– making them seem inescapable or unavoidable– which creates a greater challenge out of the seemingly simple and well-known task of doing the right thing.

Because the series mastered a meaningful and entertaining storyline, word of its quality spread and more and more people tuned in to the show. Even more, as word of how watching the translated version of the series took away from the quality of the performance, more people than usual watched the series in its original Korean dialogue form. The significance of this is that it shows that people are more willing to fully embrace all the qualities of other cultures if they understand