Considered buying a gold animal mask from the Squid Game franchise, but decided not to because my granddaughters would only tell me it was a waste of money.

Despite its unpleasant characters, negative premise, and flimsy screenplay, Squid Game is fascinating to me because:

--its game episodes are chilling

--it is irreverent

--it breaks all Ten Mosaic Commandments

--it showcases inconsistency and treachery in relationships

--it places material wealth over family values

--it is a rebellious statement against everything conservative that everyone has comfortable gotten used to

--whereas in Alice in Borderland the enemy is an invisible entity that represents adolescent anger and schizophrenia, the enemy here is one's fellow human being, and will always be

Squid Game suffers only because it has immature characters who never achieve maturity, and none of these characters undergo significant, dramatic change.

(Still loving that lecher's gold mask, though. It showed me that it is all right to be gay but not all right to have an undesirable body.)