People clad in green tracksuits stand nervously in a circle. They’re participating in a “test” on Squid Game: The Challenge, Netflix’s new reality competition series based on the streamer’s hit South Korean drama Squid Game, but they’re really just playing a game of chance. Each player must nominate someone to be eliminated, and then roll a dice. If they roll a six, the person they chose is eliminated. And so, over the course of 10 long minutes, they roll and roll and keep on rolling. Some inevitably roll sixes. Relieved players sigh; friends of eliminated players cry. Meanwhile, sitting on my couch, I hover my thumb over my remote’s fast-forward button, wishing they’d hurry up. This was not the reaction I had to the original Squid Game. Two years ago, I watched from behind my fingers, gasped at the twists, teared up for the characters as they risked their lives for a chance to win a massive fortune. The show’s casual hyper-violence was shocking, but its poignant relationships—the way they formed and fell apart as …