Chuck E. Cheese wants to get into the Squid Games business. In a marketing move so tone deaf it defies even the broadest definitions of irony, a corporation wants to build its own Squid Games style series. I am not a Squid Games watcher, but just through cultural osmosis, I am aware that Squid Games was a flaming takedown greed and avarice. Squid Game was not a fun thing, the characters were killed, MURDERED, during the games, all for the entertainment of a mass audience seething with the ugliest bloodlust imaginable. That’s to say, Chuck E. Cheese execs have apparently not seen this show but love how popular it was and if that isn’t a perfect microcosm of our culture right now, I don’t know what is.
