Alice in Borderland is a Netflix death game series that’s long been caught in the gravitational pull of Squid Game. Its second season dropped in the wake of Squid Game‘s breakout first, and its newly released third followed months after Squid Game‘s. For a time, the two shows felt like twin series with Squid Game as the breakout star and Alice in Borderland as the cult favorite. Their thematic overlap made comparisons inevitable, but also exciting: two cakes, cool.
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