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Celebrate Netflix’s “Squid Games” With Fully Customizable Shirts!

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3 years ago

October 7, 2021

Squid Games should be your new obsession.

The Netflix series perfectly blends Battle Royale, Hostel, and the Oscar-winning Parasite into an obscenely violent and yet remarkably touching drama that takes on classism in Korea. It’s quite possibly the best piece of entertainment released this year.

While the show’s popularity is slow to catch on (most likely due to the subtitles), it’s beginning to gain a cult following. Netflix’s algorithm must have tipped them off because they’ve launched an official merch store to celebrate the games.

At the aforementioned link, you can pick up a wide variety of fully customizable shirts that commemorate the various games played within the series, as well as others boasting the series cool imagery. The $35+ price point is a bit much and there’s still nothing available outside of the shirts, but hopefully, there’s more on the way as we head into the holiday season.

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Don’t Forget There’s an “Alien” TV Series Too! Here’s the Latest Update

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6 hours ago

April 19, 2024

John Squires

Pictured: 'Alien: Covenant'

There’s a lot going on in the world of Alien at the moment. The original classic is returning to theaters, for starters, and the Xenomorphs will be fighting Marvel’s superheroes in the upcoming mashup comic Aliens vs. Avengers. Of course, the main event for 2024 is Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, a brand new big screen movie set between Alien and Aliens!

With so much going on, you’d be forgiven for forgetting that Disney is also working on an “Alien” television series, in the works for FX from creator Noah Hawley (“Legion”).

The Alien franchise’s first ever television series is likely to arrive sometime in 2025, set to be the first story in the franchise that takes place on Earth, roughly 70 years in the future.

FX teases, “Expect a scary thrill ride set not too far in the future here on Earth.”

So what’s the latest on the “Alien” TV series? Deadline reports today that filming is underway in Thailand, and Sandra Yi Sencindiver (“Foundation”) is the latest actor to sign on.

According to Deadline’s report this morning, the series is set 30 years before the events of the original Alien – Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus, meanwhile, takes place 20 years *after* the events of Ridley Scott’s Alien – dealing with “the emergence of the story’s infamous Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the race between corporations to create new android life.”

Deadline adds in today’s casting report, “We understand that Sencindiver appears in multiple eps and will play a senior member of the Weyland-Yutani Corporation.”

Sydney Chandler (Don’t Worry Darling), Babou Ceesay (“Guerrilla”), Jonathan Ajayi (“Wonder Woman 1984”), Erana James (“Uproar”), Lily Newmark (“Sex Education”), Diêm Camille (“Washington Black”), Adrian Edmondson (“War & Peace”), Timothy Olyphant (“Fargo”), David Rysdahl (“Fargo”), Essie Davis (The Babadook), Alex Lawther (The End of the F*cking World), Samuel Blenkin (“Black Mirror”), Adarsh Gourav (The White Tiger), and Moe Bar-El (The Peripheral) star in the upcoming sci-fi/horror series.

Sydney Chandler is playing a character named Wendy in the series, said to be “a hybrid, a meta-human who has the brain and consciousness of a child but the body of an adult.”