Squid Game.... fuck me. NO SPOILERS PLEASE. **Title edited by MNHQ**

[Crunchymum]

Episode one done.

Does it get less.... nasty???

For those sneering at the concept. It is very similar to Hunger Games, and those were children's books/films.

As I said, the sex scene is super tame (flash of nipple at one point) and the gore is at a lower level than Walking Dead (which is also a 15 rating).

I don't like gore and the bits that stick with me are an eye ball being removed (along with other organs that you'd see in a butcher shop window if you looked) and exposed brain but other than that it's fairly standard gunshot or knife stuff (no gut spilling viscera like in horror films).

If it's the concept, don't let your kids watch Hunger Games either. If it's the gore, watch it yourself and make your own mind up. I hide during Walking Dead and don't watch Horror, I didn't hide once during Squid Games. If it's the PG sex scene, seriously, get a grip!

However, it's rated 15 for a reason. I agree that it's suitable for people aged 15+.

All those parents who have let their kids watch this on their own would probably assume their kids know it isn't real... but I bet many of them would wonder.

It's not about whether kids know it's not real it's about what this shit does to their psychology.

Imagine the generation we're producing. Young kids hooked on violent games and violent TV shows with endless sex scenes and references. Some parents are just so gullible. Why not let your kids be kids, do wholesome stuff, watch age appropriate TV and limit hours spent wasting their time on screens. There was another thread here the other day about YouTube I think or Til Tok.
People you are letting your child soak up trash and violence. How do you think it will affect their feelings and personality when they're older making their way in the world? I fear they will lose a bit of their humanity.

I've not had time to read all replies, but did it ever occur to posters, just because a bunch of teenagers say they've seen something and they're talking about it, it doesn't mean they have!
When we were in school there was a girl who had seen loads of horror films. You bet the majority of us were lying about seeing them, and had just seen parts or heard bits about the films and we were pretending to have seen them to be part of a crowd!

Now with the Internet it not hard for kids to Google and find out the plot lines etc and act like they've seen it.

Plus just because peers seem to do something, does that mean your child has to? Absolutely not. Teach them a lesson about not bowing down to peer pressure.

This programme is 15+ for a reason!!!!

To be honest I didn't realise there was an option to watch it with subtitles. I'll definitely watch it subtitled going forwards.

My kids are younger, so not an issue. Growing up I watched "inappropriate /scary" films at a young - think Nightmare on Elm Street when I was 10. To be honest I don't think my parents knew as it was usually with older cousins. Only lasting damage was that I am an absolute wuss with horror films and I'm on my 40's now.

@PopsPlanet

All those parents who have let their kids watch this on their own would probably assume their kids know it isn't real... but I bet many of them would wonder.

It's not about whether kids know it's not real it's about what this shit does to their psychology.

Imagine the generation we're producing. Young kids hooked on violent games and violent TV shows with endless sex scenes and references. Some parents are just so gullible. Why not let your kids be kids, do wholesome stuff, watch age appropriate TV and limit hours spent wasting their time on screens. There was another thread here the other day about YouTube I think or Til Tok.
People you are letting your child soak up trash and violence. How do you think it will affect their feelings and personality when they're older making their way in the world? I fear they will lose a bit of their humanity.

I think the confusion between reality and fiction is relevant. Children even as old as my dd at 13 cannot differentiate between fiction and reality. It’s the same with porn. I could watch programmes like squid games or hard porn (no thanks) regularly for the rest of my life and not feel the urge to act it out or normalise it. Some adults also have difficulty differentiating to a certain extent. But with children, it’s on another level.

Having talked to friend’s, their children watched it before they even knew. With stranger things, I watched a couple of episodes first and with squid games, I’d already watched it.

I also think Alice in Borderland is good but preferred this one.

@TeenTraumaTrials

DS 12 asked about this but I did a bit of googling and decided he was too young. I got the usual "but everyone else is watching it" but after a day he stopped asking. DD 16 watched the first couple of episodes but didn't really enjoy it. And she said no way was it suitable for DS. Might let him start watching Riverdale as a consolation as he's been asking about that for about a year ......

@TeenTramaTrials I watch Riverdale and would say that also has lots of things that aren't appropriate for a 12 year old - lots of death, attempted suicides, murders /serial killers, drug abuse, prostitution, gangs, sex scenes. I'd say 15+ would be appropriate 😊

Love the story surrounding the writer

@WhichHairBear

I thought it was incredibly dystopian n really crap. Wouldn't recommend in the slightest. Predictable, boring and very poor dubbing

“Once you overcome the one-inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.”

Bong Joon-Ho.

It's well noted that children being exposed to violence and sex has a impact on their psychology.

I don't care how much DS nags about stuff, it's a "no" I don't need to reason or explain, something's are just a straight "no" and I zone out the nagging.

Genuinely horrified to think 11 years are sat watching people get shot in the face at point blank range 😬

Absolutely loved it!

My daughter aged 12 has watched it. Yes, there’s a sex scene and violence but is it any worse than Nightmare on Elm Street/Halloween/The Exorcist that I watched that age? No.

I’m a teacher and it’s literally all year 7+ are talking about.

As a Headteacher, I have had to address a child watching this today and how much it's upset him. He's in Year 1.

This thread explains a lot. I can’t believe a supposed teacher would let a 12 year old watch it. Quite appalling lack of judgement

@inthemiddle23 ahh thanks Ive been desperately trying to think of the name of that film all evening!

No one under 15 should be watching this - a child cannot process the themes of this. I'm 50 years old and I'm still thinking about the themes in this 5 days after finishing it. And I've had one nightmare about it (and I never have nightmares)

All I see in my counselling room in school is how much inappropriate crap they're exposed to - 12+ films with horror imagery, violent manga cartoons, pornography, unrestricted internet, making tik tok videos, the list goes on and on

In an independent PRIMARY school with a very wealthy population

It is APPALLING how much people have become desensitised to violence and trauma

Honestly children are just getting more and more fucked up by adult society

No one should have been watching the Exorcist at 12 either

I loved it. I don't think the violence is that bad really? Not SAW level anyway.

I have a few quibbles with the show. Like the glass game. 50/50 chance each time, but everyone who got pushed fell through? I think it would have been better if one person just bounced off the glass and then fell. I didn't like the rich people, but then you're not supposed to I suppose.

DD is very keen on all things Korean so she pointed out all the things she knew. I've already had a frying pan ruined by her dalgona experiments so I knew what the candy game was.

@Butteredtoast55

As a Headteacher, I have had to address a child watching this today and how much it's upset him. He's in Year 1.

Isn't that 5 or 6 years old? (I'm not in the UK)

If so, that's crazy.

It's a shame Netflix uses the dubbed version as the default. I think a lot of people will get put off and not realize they can go into settings and change it to Korean with subtitles. Dubbing only works well with animation.

@Butteredtoast55

As a Headteacher, I have had to address a child watching this today and how much it's upset him. He's in Year 1.

@Butteredtoast55

As a Headteacher, I have had to address a child watching this today and how much it's upset him. He's in Year 1.

Had similar in my school today ..GROUP of children talking about it etc..they are 7 years old !!!

@Kerzel

Absolutely loved it!

My daughter aged 12 has watched it. Yes, there’s a sex scene and violence but is it any worse than Nightmare on Elm Street/Halloween/The Exorcist that I watched that age? No.

I’m a teacher and it’s literally all year 7+ are talking about.

So you felt that your 12 year old should watch a TV series full of violence, stabbing, organ harvesting on live donors, people dropping to their deaths, objectification of women, sex slavery, shooting people in the head, greed, desperationa and betrayal....?

Wow 😬 I've just started watching it with my 17 year old, can't imagine her watching it at 11/12 😳

And bloody hell a 5 year old! Blown away!

@Kerzel

Absolutely loved it!

My daughter aged 12 has watched it. Yes, there’s a sex scene and violence but is it any worse than Nightmare on Elm Street/Halloween/The Exorcist that I watched that age? No.

I’m a teacher and it’s literally all year 7+ are talking about.

Just because you watched those things at 12 years old doesn't mean it's appropriate for 12 year olds to do so or that the majority of 12 year olds wouldn't be upset or confused by it.

To be honest, it would be more worrying if a 12 year old wasn't scared, uncomfortable, confused etc watching it. I would have thought that as a teacher you felt parents should be safeguarding their children by not exposing them to inappropriate material when they aren't old enough to understand the topics in enough depth to process them healthily and safely.

I have just finished - episode 6 made me actually cry

WOAH I didn’t read the full thread. Deffo not suitable for children.

I am one of the most liberal parent around, and there is no way DD8 could watch this