On Squid Game, losing contestants died. On Squid Game: The Challenge, ‘death’ is all part of the ‘fun’.

Netflix released a trailer for its reality competition show Squid Game: The Challenge, which is based on the hit Korean import Squid Game.

Debuting November 22nd and running through December 6th, Netflix’s mock life-and-death game show pits 456 people against each other for the $4.56 million prize being offered, the same jackpot offered on the first season of Squid Game. No, the contestants aren’t really risking their lives* to compete, but there are definitely some physical challenges.

They still get fake “shot” during a game of the original program’s most iconic activity, a game of Red Light, Green Light, and in the trailer we see a player drop through a trap door to their “death” off a bridge in a later challenge.

The kills may be fake, but they are still shocking, especially to the contestants: one takes a ‘hit’, saying “Oh, shit!” when she takes an air bullet to the chest. When a player is ‘killed’ a squib full of black ink goes off under the contestant’s shirt. The trick is done in the players’ vests, which have air compression chambers that made it look like the squibs exploded.

*That’s not to say the production was 100% safe. According to Variety, three contestants required medical assistance during the shoot, which took place in the United Kingdom during a surprise cold snap. Those contestants, none of whom were paid for their participation in the series, collapsed on set due to cold and fatigue.

The reality show boasts the usual player vs. player tropes, with double crosses, backstabbers, and people who are not there to make friends, but it still follows the original, as you see in the trailer when remaining contestants are asked to vote to eliminate two of their own.

Squid Game: The Challenge image courtesy Netflix.

Squid Game: The Challenge is executive produced by Nicola Brown, Tim Harcourt, John Hay, Toni Ireland, Anna Kidd, Stephen Lambert, Louise Peet, Nia Yemoh and Stephen Yemoh for Studio Lambert and The Garden and Netflix.