Peadar de Burca: The Squid and the Whale

Much the same as standing up in Sunday Mass and proclaiming that Jesus was a wife-beating drunk. For those of you who haven’t seen it, the premise is of 456 debt-ridden members of the underclass who voluntarily participate in a series of games for a huge cash prize. The losers, of which there are many, mostly die from a very predictable and graphic gunshot wound. And yes, I know, the series is being marketed fashionably as a scathing critique on the horrors of capitalism and the insidious way it fragments society by eroding people’s inherent goodness through monetary competition. But so what? I’m not sure any of us really need a TV show crossing Charles Dickens and Das Kapital with The Hunger Games to understand that debt is the lynchpin of the global financial system. Themes of economic plight are great, but strip away this veneer and you are left with what I like to call “The Dirty Dozen” narrative – which one of the twelve characters is going to die in this episode?

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