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The Recruiter (Squid Game)
The Recruiter, also called The Salesman, is an unnamed Squid Game character played by Gong Yoo who recruits debt-ridden players via ddakji games and slaps, appears in Seasons 1-3, and dies by Russian roulette against Gi-hun in Season 2.
The Recruiting Officer
The Recruiting Officer is a 1706 comedy by Irish playwright George Farquhar, following Captain Plume and Captain Brazen as they recruit soldiers and court women in Shrewsbury during the War of the Spanish Succession.
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black (Le Rouge et le Noir) is Stendhal's 1830 two-volume psychological novel about the ambitious Julien Sorel, based on the 1827 Berthet trial and satirizing the Bourbon Restoration.
The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage (1895) is Stephen Crane's Civil War novel, subtitled An Episode of the American Civil War, following Union private Henry Fleming, who flees battle, seeks a wound as his badge, and returns to fight, told through psychological realism.
The Red Badge of Gayness
The Red Badge of Gayness is South Park Season 3 Episode 14 (production 314), aired November 24, 1999, written by Trey Parker. Cartman leads drunken Confederate reenactors, fueled by Jagermen's S'More Schnapps, to win the Civil War.
The Red Balloon
The Red Balloon (Le Ballon rouge) is Albert Lamorisse's 1956 French 34-minute short in which a sentient red balloon follows a boy, played by the director's son Pascal, through Paris; it won the 1956 Short Film Palme d'Or and the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
The Red Book (Jung)
The Red Book (Liber Novus) is Carl Jung's illuminated manuscript of 1914–1930, transcribed from his Black Books, foundation of analytical psychology, unpublished until the 2009 W. W. Norton facsimile edited by Sonu Shamdasani.
The Red Boy
The Red Boy: nickname shared by two famous child portraits, Thomas Lawrence's Portrait of Charles William Lambton (1825, National Gallery, London) and Goya's Don Manuel Osorio (Metropolitan Museum), both named for their dominant red color.
The Red Clay Strays
The Red Clay Strays (also Red Clay Strays): Mobile, Alabama Southern rock/country band formed 2016, known for the 3x-platinum TikTok hit "Wondering Why," the Dave Cobb-produced RCA albums Made by These Moments and Grateful, and ACM, CMA, and Americana awards.
The Red Detachment of Women (红色娘子军)
The Red Detachment of Women (红色娘子军) is a 1961 color feature by director Xie Jin, written by Liang Xin for Tianma Film Studio, starring Zhu Xijuan as Wu Qionghua; it won the first Hundred Flowers Best Feature Film award and inspired the 1964 model ballet.
The Red Dragon and the Gold
"The Red Dragon and the Gold" is the fourth episode of the second season of HBO's House of the Dragon, premiered July 7, 2024, written by Ryan Condal and directed by Alan Taylor.
The Red Flag
The Red Flag: socialist song written in 1889 by Jim Connell, anthem of the British, Northern Irish, and Irish Labour parties. Usually sung to O Tannenbaum, though Connell intended The White Cockade; sung by 393 Labour MPs in 1945.
The Red Green Show
The Red Green Show is a Canadian sitcom-sketch comedy hybrid created by Steve Smith, set at Possum Lodge in Possum Lake; it ran 15 seasons and 300 episodes from 1991 to 2006 on CHCH, Global, and CBC, and became a PBS cult hit in the United States.
The Red Hot Chili Peppers (album)
The Red Hot Chili Peppers (1984), the funk rock band's self-titled debut album on EMI America, produced by Andy Gill, recorded without founding members Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons.
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus is an American post-hardcore/emo band formed in 2003 in Middleburg, Florida, led by Ronnie Winter; best known for the 2006 debut Don't You Fake It and the multi-platinum single Face Down.
The Red King (TV series)
The Red King is a 2024 British six-part crime thriller and folk-horror series created by Toby Whithouse, starring Anjli Mohindra as Sergeant Grace Narayan investigating a missing-boy cold case on the fictional Welsh island of St. Jory, home to the pagan cult of the True Way; aired on Alibi, later AMC+.
The Red Lances
The Red Lances (Las lanzas coloradas) is a 1931 historical novel by the Venezuelan writer Arturo Uslar Pietri, his first, dramatizing the fall of Venezuela's Second Republic in 1814.
The Red Laugh
The Red Laugh (Krasnyy smekh) is a 1905 short novel by the Russian writer Leonid Andreyev, an anti-war response to the Russo-Japanese War depicting society's descent into madness.
The Red Line (TV series)
The Red Line is a 2019 CBS eight-episode limited drama, also called a miniseries, created by Caitlin Parrish and Erica Weiss with Ava DuVernay and Greg Berlanti producing; it follows three Chicago families after a police shooting, starred Noah Wyle, and was cancelled after low ratings.
The Red Page
The Red Page was the weekly literary page of the Sydney magazine The Bulletin, an influential forum for criticism of new books from the 1890s until 1960.
The Red Pill
The Red Pill is a 2016 American documentary directed by Cassie Jaye, exploring the men's rights movement through interviews with Warren Farrell and Paul Elam.
The Red Plum Blossom
The Red Plum Blossom (Hongmei ji, 红梅记) is a 34-act Ming dynasty chuanqi play by Zhou Chaojun about the ghost of the murdered concubine Li Huiniang.
The Red Road (TV series)
The Red Road is a SundanceTV crime drama created by Aaron Guzikowski, airing 2014-2015 in two six-episode seasons. It stars Martin Henderson, Jason Momoa, and Julianne Nicholson in a New Jersey story about a sheriff's pact with a Lenape ex-con.
The Red Room
The Red Room (Röda rummet) is an 1879 satirical novel by the Swedish writer August Strindberg, following the idealist Arvid Falk through 1870s Stockholm journalism and often called the first modern Swedish novel.
The Red Sea Diving Resort
The Red Sea Diving Resort is a 2019 Netflix spy thriller by Gideon Raff starring Chris Evans, dramatizing Mossad's Operation Brothers, which used a fake Sudanese diving resort to smuggle Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
The Red Shoes (1948 film)
The Red Shoes (1948) is a British Technicolor film by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (The Archers), starring ballerina Moira Shearer as Vicky Page opposite Anton Walbrook's impresario Lermontov, famous for its extended central ballet, Oscar wins for art direction and music, and Sight and Sound canon status.
The Red Shoes (fairy tale)
The Red Shoes (De røde Skoe) is Hans Christian Andersen's 1845 fairy tale, published in Nye Eventyr, about Karen, a poor girl whose red shoes force her to dance until her feet are cut off; the protagonist's name echoes Andersen's half-sister Karen Marie.
The Red Sleeve (옷소매 붉은 끝동)
The Red Sleeve (옷소매 붉은 끝동) is a 2021-2022 MBC Korean historical romance drama, 17 episodes, based on Kang Mikang's novel about King Jeongjo and Royal Noble Consort Uibin Seong, starring Lee Jun-ho and Lee Se-young, peaking at 17.4% ratings.
The Red Sowing
"The Red Sowing" (2024) is the seventh episode of House of the Dragon season 2, directed by Loni Peristere and written by David Hancock, in which Rhaenyra Targaryen's dragonseed gambit at Dragonstone gives the Blacks four dragonriders.
The Red Tent (Diamant novel)
The Red Tent is Anita Diamant's 1997 first novel retelling the biblical Dinah story (Genesis 34) in Dinah's voice; a sleeper bestseller, Book Sense Award winner, translated widely, adapted by Lifetime in 2014.