The press notes for Netflix ‘s new action drama Last Samurai Standing are careful to mention that the series “has been in development since 2022, a vision that predates even the development of Squid Game .” I assume that’s a typo, since Squid Game premiered on Netflix in 2021. But the exact phrasing and even the actual truth are close to irrelevant.

Whether Last Samurai Standing was put into development before Squid Game became a global sensation and FX’s Shōgun emerged as an awards juggernaut truly doesn’t matter — because every critic and every viewer is going to call the series Squid Game meets Shōgun , a comparison that isn’t an accusation of theft so much as a very, very accurate description of narrative similarity. Under what circumstances is being Squid G

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