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Hindustan Times
19 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Hindustan Times
Love Squid Game? Here are 5 similar TV shows to watch
Jun 27, 2025 05:51 PM IST Squid Game Season 3 is finally out on Netflix. The latest season of the popular survival thriller series features Lee Jung-jae, Lee Byung-hun, Wi Ha-joon, Im Si-wan and Kang Ha-neul in key roles. If you are a hardcore Squid Game fan and have already finished the new season, we know you must be craving more thrill, survival games or twisted social experiments. Do not worry, we have got you covered. From deadly challenges to psychological drama, here are five shows that Squid Game fans will love: A still from Netflix's Squid Game(Netflix) This Japanese sci-fi thriller is all about survival games in a deserted Tokyo. Players have to clear life-threatening games to stay alive. It is fast-paced, brutal and totally binge-worthy. If you liked Squid Game, this one is a no-brainer. This Brazilian dystopian show is about a world divided into progress and poverty. People can escape their tough lives, but only 3% of them make it through a tough selection process. 3. The Challenge: USA (Paramount) This one is a reality competition with high stakes and big drama. The contestants go head-to-head. No, it is not deadly like Squid Game, but the pressure is real. 4. Panic (Prime Video) Set in a small town where teens join a secret game to win money and escape their lives. Sounds fun? Not really. The challenges get risky fast. 5. The 100 (Netflix) A group of teens is sent to a ruined Earth from space and has to figure out how to live, and who they can trust. Lots of action and twists. ALSO READ: Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk reveals details about Squid Game Season 3: 'It's not always a happy ending' FAQs: What are some shows like Squid Game on Netflix? Some great shows like Squid Game on Netflix include Alice in Borderland, 3% and The 100. Is Panic on Prime Video similar to Squid Game? Yes, Panic is similar in its high-stakes game format. While it is not as violent, it is packed with suspense and risky challenges. Can I watch The Challenge: USA if I liked Squid Game? Definitely. The Challenge: USA has thrilling physical and mental games. It is not deadly, but the strategy and stress levels will feel familiar to Squid Game fans.
Hans India
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hans India
RK Sagar returns to cinema with intense crime thriller ‘The 100'
Actor RK Sagar, best known for his memorable role in the hit serial MogaliRekulu, is making a powerful comeback to the silver screen with The 100, a gripping crime thriller slated for theatrical release on July 11. Written and directed by Raghav Omkar Sasidhar, the film is produced by Ramesh Karutoori and VenkiPushadapu under KRIA Film Corp and Dhamma Productions. RK Sagar stars as Vikranth IPS, a no-nonsense police officer who takes on deep-rooted corruption with unshakable resolve. The film's teaser, launched by Mega Mother Smt. Konidela Anjana Devi, has received a positive response, following the first look release by former Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu. The musical highlight 'Hey Meghale,' composed by Harshavardhan Rameshwar and sung by Revanth and SahithiChaganti, adds emotional depth to Vikranth's character, exploring his pain and purpose. Misha Narang plays the female lead, with Dhanya Balakrishna in a pivotal role. With a stellar technical team including cinematographer Shyam K Naidu and editor Amar Reddy Kudumula, The 100 is generating buzz as its release nears. The team has planned an aggressive promotional campaign in the coming days.
Spectator
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Spectator
A lament for the lads' mags
Do you remember the lads' mags? I do because I worked on them for years. FHM, Maxim, all those gloriously disreputable titles. I helped dream up the captions, the gags, the gonzo reportage, the phwoar-heavy covers. I also remember how they were reviled. Condemned by broadsheets, feminists, academics. Accused of objectifying girls, toxifying masculinity and encouraging men to enjoy cold lager, bare breasts and football gossip. Yet here's the thing. When I contrast the world of lads' mags with today's bleak digital landscape, of AI smut and OnlyFans subscriptions, of performers mechanically coupling with a thousand men, cheered on by Insta-bots, the old magazines, even if sometimes crude or clumsy, seem almost noble. Paragons of playfulness and wit. Of joyful, communal, slightly sozzled eroticism. They were printed on paper, for one thing. You had to buy them, take them to a till, perhaps even smuggle them past a disapproving girlfriend. Then you'd read them on the bus or in the pub, or pass them round your mates, chuckling over absurd sex-advice columns – especially Grub Smith's 'Laboratory of Love'. And they were funny. In the early years, before the suits turned everything into clickbait, we made sure we amused. We borrowed from Private Eye, from Viz, from Monty Python. The best mags also had proper journalists doing proper journalism: gun-runners in Guangdong, acid casualties in Ibiza. Put it another way – the lads' mags had a kind of courage, even an intellectual curiosity. Sometimes, if you were lucky, they got you to invent a ridiculous phrase that would last forever. Or at least they did for me. It was the late 1990s and FHM was peaking. At its best, the magazine sold nearly a million copies a month. We were carefully producing the first-ever list of The 100 Sexiest Women in the World (which became an annual standard). My job was to write the captions. One hundred pithy, smutty, funny lines beneath a hundred photos of impossibly attractive women. Sounds easy? You try it – without using ChatGPT. Try writing a hundred unique ways of saying 'she's hot' without repeating yourself or getting sacked. Around no. 34, I was delirious. Around no. 50, the editor physically locked me in his office and refused to let me out until the job was done. Then, somewhere around no. 73, I hit a wall. I was staring at a Danish starlet with smoky eyes and a definite air of sexual availability, of 'come hither' and 'I'm ready'. Falteringly, I typed: 'You can tell she's wetter than…' And there I stopped. Wetter than what? Heavy rain? Dublin in December? Then came the lightning bolt: 'Wetter than an otter's pocket.' There it was: a perfect smutty phrase. Rude, but somehow innocent. Suggestive, but oddly poetic. It had internal rhyme and a ribald hint of biology. What does an otter keep in his pocket? His lunch. Work it out. Then, years later, something odd happened. I started hearing my phrase. From a football pundit describing an Anfield pitch. Then a weather girl. Some bloke on local radio. Then it cropped up on pub signs, in band names, in poems. Even, to my alarm, in the title of a Penguin children's book (er, guys). Curious, I contacted the editors of Viz's Profanisaurus, keepers of the English language's smuttiest corners. Had I pinched it unconsciously? 'We can find no earlier usage,' they graciously replied. 'Looks like it's yours.' It's not much of a literary legacy, I'll admit. But it proves my point: however daft, however filthy, that kind of writing came from somewhere real. From a shared humour, shared culture, shared sense of sly British mischief. It was a Carry On wink, not a deracinated leer. Compare that with today. Porn is infinite and industrial. AI generates fake nudes of real women and OnlyFans monetises isolation. Meanwhile bedrooms grow quieter, intimacy becomes a memory. And incels slowly lose their minds, in darkness. It sounds odd to write this, but I believe that the lads' mag era – so often dismissed as crass and sexist – was a kind of funny, smutty Golden Age. And now we are in the Age of Loneliness.
Elle
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Elle
Tati Gabrielle Reflects on 'You', 'The Last of Us', and the Power of Her Voice
Justin French Tuxedo jacket, bib, trousers, McQueen. Earrings, ring, Anita Ko. We meet Tati Gabrielle's characters before a word is ever spoken. In The 100 , her wide, doe-like eyes burn with a cold, unyielding glare. As Nora in You , they soften with intrigue—we (and Joe) meet her in a library, after all. It's almost impossible to believe there was ever a time she didn't recognize her power. 'I was a very socially awkward kid and slow to speak,' she says, 'but I loved to present my emotions and thoughts visually.' She credits her upbringing in the San Francisco Bay Area for instilling her with a 'sense of strong individuality, loyalty, and justice.' Gabrielle eventually cut her teeth in a third grade play, prompting her teacher to tell her mom, 'She's got something—you've got to [nurture] that.' When her mother urged her to continue to pursue theater, she resisted and auditioned for the Oakland School for the Arts as a visual arts student instead. Ironically, she forgot her sketchbook that day, and fate intervened: Theater it was. Her calling was anchored in 10th grade during a school trip to Edinburgh, Scotland, where her theater class performed a play. On the streets of the Festival Fringe, she witnessed how this form of storytelling could captivate an audience. 'Seeing the way that somebody can watch something and it speaks to them in such a way that will make them go about life differently from that moment on,' she says, 'I realized how much that had happened to me growing up, like watching Spy Kids and coming out of the movie saying, 'I can do this.'' Justin French Bubble dress, boots, Marc Jacobs. Earrings, necklace, bracelets, Cartier. The thing about fate is, no matter how hard you try to escape it, a voice will always lead you back to your rightful path. Gabrielle considered a career in criminal profiling, and majored in French at Spelman College, with dreams of becoming a diplomat. It wasn't until she overheard her mother telling people she wanted to pursue criminal justice that something inside her snapped. 'No, I want to be an actor,' she instantly thought. '[Black women] have been forced to grow up in a world where we have to be aware at all times.' Battling depression, she left college on medical leave and returned to the Bay Area feeling lost and uncertain. But her inner voice knew what she needed to hear. Or at least her high school best friend did, when she called her out of the blue and suggested they move to Los Angeles together. 'To me, it was the universe's call,' she says. She dipped her toes into acting with an appearance on a Nickelodeon show, but felt like kid shows didn't reflect her potential. 'It was a good introduction to what a film set is like, but I wanted to challenge myself to tell stories that were impactful on all levels,' Gabrielle says. That meant finding roles that acknowledged her identity as a Black and Korean-American woman. 'In the first couple of years [of acting], nobody knew where to place me. I wasn't Black enough to be Black. I wasn't Asian enough to be Asian,' she remembers. Justin French Tuxedo jacket, bib, trousers, McQueen. Earrings, ring, Anita Ko. Growing up in the diverse Bay Area presented a stark contrast to Hollywood's narrow perspectives. When she was appearing in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina , a scene depicting her character, Prudence, being lynched sparked backlash. 'Black Twitter went off,' she says. Showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa envisioned an innocently color-blind world, but audiences didn't perceive a witch existing in a fictional, supernatural realm—they saw a white woman hanging a Black woman. 'I can never let something like that happen again. I can't let my people down,' she says. From then on, she made it her mission to ensure her roles reflected the realities of women of color. Before accepting her role in You , she met with showrunner Sera Gamble. 'I told Sera that since I'm going to be Joe's new obsession, and all of the women before me have been white, there are certain things that, as a woman of color, are not going to go the same way,' she says. '[Black women] have been forced to grow up in a world where we have to be aware at all times. We think differently. We have to protect ourselves differently. So Marienne cannot be oblivious.' Justin French Tuxedo jacket, bib, trousers, McQueen. Earrings, ring, Anita Ko. When we last saw Marienne, she had outsmarted Joe and left him believing she was dead after an apparent overdose. But by the end of season 5, she returns with a chilling one-liner: 'You should've killed me better, Joe.' The moment was bittersweet for Gabrielle, who was grieving the death of her friend and Sabrina co-star, Chance Perdomo. Still, she found solace in Marienne's resilience. 'Women, we love hard and love really big, and we will falter, but don't let that falter be your end,' she says. For the girl who once spoke so little, finding her voice—one that carries weight, power, and purpose—hasn't come easily. 'Prudence taught me how to be unapologetic, and Marienne taught me grace—that there's always room to find joy, no matter what happens,' she reflects. As for Nora in The Last of Us , she's learning the weight of her choices. 'All of these characters are so blatantly flawed, and [ The Last of Us ] doesn't necessarily try to redeem them. Nora started teaching me that you are your choices. You can have as much intention and heart as you want, but what the world sees are your actions. Your choices define you,' she says. 'And you can't run from the things you've decided on.' Hair by Sami Knight for Rehab; makeup by Alexandra French at Forward Artists; manicure by Johanna Castillo; produced by Anthony Federici at Petty Cash Production; photographed at Malibu Creek Ranch. A version of this article appears in the Summer 2025 issue of ELLE. Related Stories
The Age
14-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
The Last of Us depicts murder and cannibalism, but women with bad hair? That's a no-go
Occasionally, some artfully placed tendrils tumble away from the braid (to frame her face, of course), but the audience never sees Katniss redo her braid during the perils of the arena. On a positive note, the film gets credit for having the character's hair up and away from her face. The 100 This young adult television series follows a group of juvenile survivors who return to Earth nearly a century after a nuclear apocalypse. The scorching disaster wiped out nearly all of humanity, but apparently managed to spare beauticians, nail technicians and hairdressers. Characters don bleached fishtail braids and balayage Dutch braids that would rival a Targaryen's wig from Game of Thrones, alongside heavy eye makeup and mascara. The elaborate hairstyles have even inspired tutorials on TikTok and YouTube. If an unexpected apocalypse happens in 2025, let's hope the beauty influencers stay safe. The Walking Dead Female characters are often the target of unrealistic makeup and hairstyle choices; however, men haven't escaped either. Enter post-apocalyptic comic book series The Walking Dead, where survivors struggle to stay alive, forage for food, but also prioritise perfectly manicured beards. When protagonist Rick Grimes wakes from his coma in season 1, he's understandably confused and frightened, but he's thankfully sporting beautifully trimmed facial hair. The hair magic continues for 10 more seasons. While food shortages are common in end-of-the-world scenarios, beard trimmers and razors remain pretty easy to find. Female body hair in every single dystopian film … ever Seeing body hair on a woman in contemporary television or cinema is unfortunately still a rarity, but when the Earth is depleted of resources, surely it makes sense to show a little peach fuzz? Heroines can overthrow corrupt governments, as Shailene Woodley does in Divergent, or outrun tsunamis like Chloe Grace Moretz in The 5th Wave, but they must do so without any armpit or leg hair and with perfectly shaped eyebrows. Loading However, recent films may show a glimmer of change in the industry. Aimee Lou Wood's natural teeth were heralded in season three of The White Lotus, Amy Adams' character in Nightbitch examines her chin hairs and Kate Winslet's Mare of Easttown embraces her unplucked eyebrows and half-dyed hair. Maybe a dystopian series with accurate hairstyles is on the horizon.
