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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can a 10 and 13 year old handle, or for adults only?[/quote]

Adults only. The first episode does a mass execution style scene. Blood and all. [/quote]

IMO I would be fine with my 12 year old watching it. It's just entertainment[/quote]

I watched it with my 10 year old. There is one sex scene that was easy for me to hide from her-- it's pretty obvious it's about to happen so had her turn her back while I fast forwarded.

The violence is fine. While graphic, the circumstances and the way it's done are more shockingly gory than scary or emotional. For the most part.

The really adult aspects of it are just the moral quandaries that kids might find boring or not really get in all their nuance.[/quote]

If the extreme violence is fine for your 10 yr old, then the sex scene shouldn't have been a problem. It’s all just entertainment as someone else said. [/quote]

PP you are responding to. First, this is kid specific. It's obviously not appropriate for lots, maybe most kids this age. My kid is just not one who gets scared easily. She did turn her head away at certain things, but so did I. She mostly finds gory things intriguing and with doctors in the family, that's kind of unremarkable.

There is suspense in Squid Game, but there is nothing realistic about it that would cause someone to transfer a fear of violence from the show to their own lives. The whole scenario is this cartoonish, unrealistic game. None of the violence is anything she can relate to. (YYMV for kids who are very aware and frightened by school shootings. My kid is not.) I would not let her watch any kind of show that depicted violence that can might happen in real life, or even shows that depict other coercive/hurtful events.

As for the (bathroom) sex scene, I told her to look away and muted it. She knows what sex is but doesn't need to see a trashy depiction of it. I told there was sex, and we talked about why it happened-- what the players were trying to achieve. She hasn't seen the entire series, so I will skip past the other scene in a way she won't realize. "Oops, bedtime! Let's stop here and pick up where we left off tomorrow." She won't realize I've actually fast forwarded a little past that spot.

Which gets to the other main point-- deciding whether to let your child watch it is not just about drawing a line to avoid exposure to sex or violence. It's also about what the show has to offer-- moral dilemmas, survival and game strategies, depictions of economic inequality. (And actually, the most disturbing aspect of the show is the brutal and realistic backstories of the characters' economic desperation that brought them to the game in the first place.) It's been really fascinating to watch with her and has generated some good discussions. We often play "would you rather," so for us Squid Game has become a prompt for extending those conversations into more sophisticated territory.

I would absolutely say that for children in this age range, they should watch with a parent, not by themselves. We pause frequently to discuss what's happening and why characters are making the choices they make. [/quote]

The mental gymnastics you’re doing is ridiculous. If gratuitous violence is ok then so is gratuitous sex. [/quote]

The violence isn't gratuitous. It's integral to the show.

You make a good point, though. I am definitely less troubled by the violence than the sex, so I'm thinking about why that is.

Part of is that frankly, we're more inured to depictions of violence already. There are no video games (or war movies, for that matter) that depict graphic sex like they do graphic violence.

Also, the context for the violence is wholly fantastical. The sex in the bathroom stall is not. The violence is taking place in the middle of what looks like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. It more like the violence you'd see in Star Wars than in any real life situation.

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Hold up now. Have you actually watched Star Wars? Did you actually watch Squid Games? There is blood being shown and close up of headshots. They shot point blank anyone who doesn’t win the round. They show people hitting the ground and zoom in. This is more in line with John Wick not Star Wars. Star Wars is PG13 and no blood. [/quote]

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