Squid Game (2021)

In one of the episodes, there are several female characters in body paint. All nudity is obscured by paint and cannot be seen.

There is a brief mention of necrophilia, nothing overly explicit.

Male buttocks nudity is briefly shown.

A woman walks into a bathroom and pulls out concealed cigarettes and a lighter from her vagina. No nudity is shown.

An older man whispers in the ear of a younger man (presumably for a sexual favor) to which the younger man starts following him until they are halted. Nothing is shown.

A man and woman have sex in a bathroom stall. The scene lasts around a minute with few seconds of frontal female nudity

A woman insults a man by saying "You've got a hell of a small dick."

VIP people in their room, there is a lot of nude men and women with paintings on their bodies. No nudity as it is covered up.

Someone mentions about how he wants player number 69 to win because of the number's sexual meaning.

Man and women have sex in the bathroom. A woman's nipples are briefly shown.

A pink soldier walks into the bathroom where there are two female players and one of the players calls it sexual harassment.

Mi-Nyeo and Deok Su have sex in a washroom stall and moaning is audible at first but just their top halves are shown and they are shown making out and thrusting in the stall. Mi-Nyeo's breasts are briefly seen as they are thrusting.

Female buttocks are shown in a couple scenes in episode 7

EPISODE 1(0/10) None

EPISODE 2(0/10) A man and owman are thrown out of a car in their underwear

EPISODE 3(4/10) Suggestive language and brief scene of a character in the bathroom where a woman takes a cigar out of her vagina

EPISODE 4(7,5/10) Scene envolving two characters "having their love time" in the bathroom. We only see the neck region. Loudy noises are heard but we see the humping afterwards with a glimpse of nipples and arousal

EPISODE 5(3/10) brief mention to abuse

EPISODE 6(2/10)Brief mention to abuse; sad scene

EPISODE 7(6,5/10)Body paint and a scene involving two characters in a room, but nothing happened, there is a wall with a mural of a topless woman with nipples, a man takes off his clothes with his butt showing and another takes of his mask and about to gives him a blowjob but quits before doing it. A woman hugs a man and says he has a tiny dick

EPISODE 8(0/10) None

EPISODE 9(0/10)None

VEREDICT SEASON 1= MODERATE. Despite having an adult scene at episode 4, and episode 7 the show has 7 episodes with mild content.

Jun-ho confronts a pink soldier asking if a dead body is his brother. The soldier tells him no and proves the body was a woman by explaining that he and other soldiers took turns "doing" her after she died.

A man and woman are thrown out of a vehicle taped and with a blind mask

Bodies are shown hanging for all the contenders to see.

Organs are removed from some dead bodies. Shots showing eyeballs, a heart and other organs are clearly visible, though only for a few seconds.

Every episode contains bloody shooting, sometimes at a point blank range. Frequent fighting, sometimes with weapons such as small knives or metal bars. The characters cannot clean themselves up after these fights or games, so any blood on their faces or clothing remains there.

A man is stabbed to death on a bridge, blood is seen and the scene goes on for quite some time. The man's killer then jumps off of the bridge into the water below.

A character's leg is bitten and has a chunk of flesh torn off. The bloody flesh is then spat back out.

A character is impaled through the hand with a knife. He pulls it out, causing him to scream and bleed.

There is very intense violence, gore and bloodshed throughout the series. People are shot in the head, stabbed and killed. You can see blood on the ground spilling, dead bodies etc.

Most of the violence in this show is just people being shot with some blood shown.

4 dead bodies (3 are masked) are shown hanging as a warning to the players.

A player gets shot and then blood is on the other players face

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Graphic Violence Throughout.

EPISODE 1(LEVEL OF VIOLENCE:8,5/10) At the end of the episode people who lost the first game are brutally shot and we see everything followed with explicit bloody sprays, also in slow motion. A man is chased by other men he owes money to and is punched in nose and has to use his blood print to sign a paper, resulting in blood, a woman is beaten, dozens to hundreds of people shot in Red Light Green Light, one man is shot with blood squirting from mouth's chests, and headshots, once the timer runs out, everyone gets shot to death,

EPISODE 2(LEVEL OF VIOLENCE:7,5/10) IN season 1 ep 2 a man in a car gets stabbed in the leg, back and chest and violently rips the blade off killing him. A man had his hand crushed in a machine, resulting in a bloody scene.A woman splashes a coffee pot on a man's face and then puts a knife near his throat as a threat while putting his head bended backwards.

EPISODE 3(LEVEL OF VIOLENCE7,5/10)People who lost the game are shot a quantity of blood sprays, milder compared to green light, red light. A man is shot in the head and we see the blood trail; disturbing and his corpse comes down a slide, there is a honeycomb where numerous people are executed if they crack a single bit of the shape. A kid is held hostage, a man commits suicide and a group of late people are killed by the firing squad.

EPISODE 4(LEVEL OF VIOLENCE:9/10) Smothering,, people fall to death in tug of war, get stabbed many times/strangled, kicked and beaten to death by another man in a fight for food, a dissection with a eyeball torn off a corpse and put in a bag organs are seen, pole beatings. Lights out scene has strobe effects, so the details are hard to be seen and many people are beaten to death as a result. Woman killed while banging for help.

EPISODE 5(LEVEL OF VIOLENCE:8/10) Two men are shot in the head, blood is seen and organs are seen during the cirurgy process and is put to a bag of liquid. It can be gross to some people, win of tug of war and everyone falls to their death. A man has his head beaten by an object in a flashback so as another man while on strike and a few other people by officers. Fight/chase scene occurs between a masked man and a surgeon, and a man's head is cut

EP 6(LEVEL OF VIOLENCE 7/10) The less violent episode of the show, but the saddest. People get killed by masked soldiers, a elderly urinates in his pant, masked men are hanging from their arms. Gganbu is played, a man is shot in the chest, a woman is pushed to the ground, a man is held by the shirt and yelled at. A man is shot by an automatic, a woman is executed, a man is betrayed and shot offscreen, an old man is shot to death by gun.

EPISODE 7(LEVEL OF VIOLENCE:8/10)No shooting but it contains gore. Bodies can be seen later in the ground and a player's brain is leaking from the skull and we never see the impact of the fallen bodies, people have to step on glass and guess which tile to step on otherwise if they step on the wrong one, they fall to the ground and crash dead. Some are pushed and shoved off and two die, a man squeezes a man's testicles and points a gun.

EPISODE 8(LEVEL OF VIOLENCE:8/10)Injuries are seen and we see a lot of blood. 2 moments of shooting in the entire episode, a woman takes out a piece of glass from her gut, a man is being hunted by other men on an island. Cornered on a cliff, A m an shoots another man in the shoulder with a gun then he then shoots the shooter. A woman is stabbed in the neck in her bed and dies. A man gets angry and charges at killer then gets pushed.

EPISODE 9(LEVEL OF VIOLENCE:8,5/10) Stabbing, punching and biting during a fight, an intense fight scene occurs between two men which includes swinging, cutting in the face, hand stabbing/gut stabbing/rear stabbing,, headbutting, jacket strangling, punching, kicks and punches to the face cuts to the leg, then the man is weakened and stabs himself in the neck to let the other person win.

The violence is strong, but sometimes moderate

Violence and Gore in Squid Game: SEVERE

EPISODES WITH MODERATE VIOLENCE: 2,3,5(EXCEPT FOR THE CIRURGY SCENES) and 6

EPISODES WITH STRONG VIOLENCE: 1,4,8 and 9

EPISODES WITH GORE: 4,5 and 7

Despite its violent nature, the violence in this show is actually more centred in shootings

In this show, when players are eliminated, they are placed in present like coffins and cremated, in one episode a man still alive had the coffin nailed immediately.

A lot of salty language (including 16 uses the f-word) like "shit," "bitch," "dickhead," "hell," "damn," "asshole," and more.

Based off English subtitles with the original Korean audio, profanity also includes countless religious exclamations, usually god damn, except when one character prays to God a lot.

Korean profanities toned down in the English subtitle

A woman does the middle finger

One use of goddamn in english

A use of American profanities such as scumbag, fucker, fucking, motherfucker, fucked, son of a bitch, goddamn said in English by VIP's in Episode 7 and one use of fucking in Episode 8 said in english

Man smoking outside gas station. Other scenes depict smoking and drinking in various locations.

Player 212 smuggles in some cigarettes and smokes in a bathroom stall.

In the VIP lounge watching a game, the 6 masked VIPs dressed in luxurious robe with nothing underneath all are smoking cigars and drinking.

This show can be frightening and intense for some viewers. It shows people being killed as well as screaming/pleading for their lives.

This series is very shocking, heavy, cynical, ambiguous, and mind-blowing throughout. It is extremely strong, gritty, disturbing and intense, both visually and story-wise, because of the amount of violence where people have to play games to support their financial self from ruin, contestants are brutally executed and some players kill others for their own lives using selfishness. Some are even betrayed, some are beaten and chased try to strive to live while their reward for the luckiest contains a fortune. This is very disturbing, upsetting, and thought-provoking.

Killings in some games are done by a point blank execution, can get a bit bloody and disturbing.

A man gets his hand crushed in an open piece of machinery. He screams in pain and blood is seen coming out of his hand stump. Very graphic but only shown for a second.

It becomes very clear that you have to be selfish in order to win the games, which leads to some very shocking and heartbreaking moments which can deeply affect the audience.

In an episode a fight breaks out, blood and severe flashing lights.

Innocent kids games become a suspenseful life or death situation

The general theme in this show depicts the dark reality of financial distress and the fact that people would do anything for money.

The mask worn by the front man may be creepy.

Many characters die bloody and gruesome deaths. Very disturbing.

In most episodes, there are dead people littered on the ground with bloody injuries. Blood splatters are everywhere. Dead contestants are burned in furnaces. The Pink Soldiers operate on dead contestants and remove body parts which is really disturbing and gross. Dead people are shown hanging from various places. The main characters mother dies offscreen and he is shown wailing over her corpse.

This is very dark and intense show as they trying to win the money with dangerous game situations.

EPISODE 1(IMPACT:8/10) The deaths may be disturbing for some viewers. The calming song playing can be upsetting

EPISODE 2(IMPACT:7/10) The machine scene and the stabbing scene may be unexpected by some viewers

EPISODE 3(IMPACT: 8/10) Claustrophobic atmosphere and loudy noises followed by some deaths

EPISODE 4: IMPACT(10/10) Strobe effects, heavy violence and gore may be very disturbing for the majority of the viewers

EPISODE 5(IMPACT:7/10)Graphic cirurgic process may be disturbing for some people

EPISODE 6(IMPACT: 9/10) Sad atmosphere may be very upsetting for the majority of the viewers, number 1 dies and number 199 dies in the most heartbreaking ways possible.

EPISODE 7(IMPACT:7/10) Dark ambient may be scary for some people

EPISODE 8(IMPACT:7/10) The ending may be upsetting for some viewers

EPISODE 9(IMPACT:8/10) Strong violence and plot twists may be unexpected by some viewers

Impact of the show: SEVERE RECOMENDATION: MA+15