Display MoreI liked it. Squid Game and Alice in Borderland are both takes on the "death game" genre*, which I happen to love, but the focus of AiB is not the "real world" like the Squid Game is. Instead, the main character gets transported to this strange world (which we know from the title is Borderland, but they're still exploring what that is) where everyone who gets transported to this world has to participate in these deadly games. You have to play or else you die, and playing the games themselves can be deadly (the death game trope of it). The death game twist, though, is that there are different types of games that emphasize your ability to reason vs. your ability to cooperate vs. your physical ability vs. your EQ or ability to understand others. The character twist on this story is that the characters aren't desperate or broke or all in one kind of easy to manipulate bucket, but they seem to just be a range of average people who are trying to make their way through this scary world and make sense of it. Season 1 focuses on an assumption that gets made about how to "escape" this world, and that's all I'll say about it, because I don't want to spoil it if you watch it!
Hopefully this helped!
*Also includes stories like books/movies: Battle Royale and The Hunger Games trilogy; and video games: the Zero Escape trilogy and the Danganronpa trilogy
Imma watch it after I'm done with the business proposal 
