Caution: spoilers.
I could not tear my eyes away from it. I think it’s because the writers got me to care about some of the characters. They do that by letting you into their lives. So when those same people faced danger and hardship I felt like I HAD to see what happened.
I have a real horror at the notion of falling to one’s death. So the tug-of-war and the penultimate game with the glass panels really scared the crap our of me but I wanted to know if my fictional friends got through it OK.
Also it definitely has a modern feel, the notion that we exist at the pleasure of billionaires, that we are their playthings.
It makes me wonder have billionaires taken the place of God now? There were a couple of scenes where a character starts screaming at the walls stuff like "don’t you see that somebody died? That guy killed him!" etc but the prayers go unanswered.
So there is a lot there. All kinds of contemporary existential angst. But the main thing is I developed a relationship with the characters so I couldn’t look away.