“Squid Game: The Challenge” Season 2 launches with 456 contestants competing for $4.56 million in Netflix’s latest reality competition bet.
The streaming giant is adapting “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Clue” and “Monopoly” into reality competition shows.
Home health nurse Faith Dunn, clad in a green tracksuit, entered the cavernous room full of bunk beds where hundreds of contestants in the highly competitive second season of “Squid Game: The Challenge” that launched Tuesday. Dunn — a huge fan of the popular Korean dystopian series — was in it to win it as Player 361.
Dunn, 29, flew to England for the first time in January to take part in the reality competition series filmed at Shinfield Studios near Reading.
“‘Squid Game’ is the best series I’ve ever watched,” said Dunn, who

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