On 25 September, Netflix released the third and final season of its popular Japanese Science-Fi thriller series Alice in borderlandThe show’s hero, lonely, video-game Obsed Arisu (Kento Yamazaki) is stuck in a diastopian edition of Tokyo (… border) Along with their friends, they are forced to participate in a series of sadistic games styled after various cards from a deck. Essentially, the show serves a la of lamps, blood-soaked and non-stop cliffhangers Squid gameRapid-fire wrapped in puzzle-dialogues. Every episode has the story ebab and the flow is usually a well-made, with a high-concept video game. This ‘gameified’ is close to television as much as you will ever get.
And yet, more than video games, the show has the major stylistic effects (as its name is mentioned) Lewis Carroll. Many characters are named after their Carolon counterparts – Arisu himself is Alice, of course. His fellow players, colleagues and later, romantic interest, Yuzuha Usagi (Tao Tsuchia) matches the white rabbit (Usi is a rabbit in Japanese). The esoteric players call themselves misery, the Cheshire is a cat, and so on. It is incredible that the book that continues to inspire creators and artists from all over the world is going to complete 160 years soon: Alice in Wonderland (First published in November 1865). Movies, books, TV shows, video games; Carol’s prestigious work has quietly affected the 21st century pop culture across the media.
I was first exposed to a carol-inspired work in my teenage age in the early 2000s, when action-adventure video game American McGi’s elis Was reviewing for re -interpretations of your imaginative character Alice in Wonderland And through the Looking Glass (1871). American McGi’s elis (And its sequel) presented the players with a serious, pessimistic version of the Carol’s world, and navigated the heroine through a series of demonic creatures and difficult riddles, which was deployed in the right carolion fashion, verses and Wordplays. In 2007, British Comics Writer-artist Brian Talbot released Alice in SunderlandAn experimental function of graphic non-fiction that detected Carol’s link with the history of Sunderland region of North-East England as well as the broader theme of creating a myth and storytelling. One of the most interesting sections of this book explains how Carol mined local myths and legends, and replaced them for teenage audiences. For example, Jabberwocky’s character has some common elements, which are indigenous to the ‘The Lambon worm’ legend, this region.
Today’s streaming era has seen borrowing many TV shows Alice in Wonderland Knowledge. Batman universe pairing tweedle-D and tweedle-dum and more prominent supervisors, the Madh Hatters, rhymes like their Carolon Namekakes. On Fox TV series Gotham (2014-19), The Mad Hatters from a suitable deranged Benedict Samuel (Owen The Walking Dead2010-22). resident Evil The film Franchise (2002-16), also, are many storylines that are inspired by Carol’s work, as the Cult Thriller series series Lost (2004–10), which nominated the conclusion of its third season through ‘The Look-Glass’.
Alice in borderland New-old, novel-but are successful in presenting these perennial popular characters in the identityable skins. Most of the above books, movies and shows, Carolon effects were used to show mystery or conspiracy. … borderland Instead, Carol makes a conscious option to bend in scary aspects of Carroll-Anthropically, a higher-budget version of the same step was done by Alice of American McGi all years ago. At the end of season 2, one of the villain tells Arisu, ‘Jeevan is just a game we play with ourselves’ and that line briefly briefly tells the Nihilistic World View … borderlands,
Then, dear children are classic Alice in Wonderland Secretly a scary story? The answer is both yes and no. Carol wished to move away from the propagation of the literature of the children of his era. He believed that in addition to adults in their lives, children did not need protection or kind from their books. He wanted to create a lesson using mathematics, logic, puzzle – nonsense poetry and pantomy’s fickleness – polarity rather point. Therefore, if adult readers find scary in these stories, it is due to the unnatural strangeness of carol characters, which they refused to dumb for children.
Carol must have enjoyed Alice in borderlandEspecially the scene where a character is forced to hack your own leg to survive.
Writers and journalists are working on their first book of non-story.
Published – October 02, 2025 05:34 pm IST