https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3vzzm/squid-game-halloween-costumes-are-missing-the-point

Squid Game costumes have seamlessly slotted into this year's selection of Halloween costumes, to the point that at least one school district has banned them. Given the show's popularity, this was inevitable. It's still a little weird.

Squid Game is Netflix's most popular show by far, and it's very clearly about the evils of capitalism. Set in South Korea, which has deep and widespread economic disparities, it concerns an impoverished group of people who are coerced into playing children's games for the chance to win a life-changing amount of money. The only trick is that if you lose these games you will die, often quite gruesomely.