Squid Game [Netflix] [** SPOILERS **]

I watched the first episode, and granted it was late and I was tired but I wasn't bowled over - just a bunch of people being shot? Does it get better? If it's a whole series of relentless violence then maybe I'm not gonna be into it.

It's certainly advertised as a tv show battle royale in the trailers but to answer your question

Unless you have reading difficulties you should always watch a show with original soundtrack and subtitles as you get the original acting and emotion and not another version/interpreation and you also the lips sync correctly

Very enjoyable except for the VIPs. Absolutely awful when they were in it - cringe inducing.

Yes but so many shows are slow burners.

But you are right, so many people don't watch Better Call Saul because the first few episodes were slow and not like Breaking Bad and then so many people missed out on one of the best shows on TV in the last 5 years.

Can’t do dubbing - a Korean lad with an Arkansas accent is strange . Subtitles for me

Really don't agree with that at all.

They were fine, played obnoxious people with masks on so made it hard to tell how good or bad their acting was and also their screentime was quiet small

I think a bit like Sumo wrestling, in the original game the aim for the attacker is to step foot inside the 'squid's head' - they can only hop on one foot until they break through the centre of the squid's body [the double line in the centre] then they can use both feet - the defenders must force them back, if they push them outside the squid they die - as this was an actual to the death game with an anything goes rule [once Seong Gi had broke through and could now use both feet] that bit kinda went out the window, it was kill anyway possible .... I think

As for the VIP acting, thing to remember is this was originally aimed at the Korean/Asian market, to them over acting seems the norm, either way we weren't supposed to like them in any way so it's fitting

Also - Gi-Hun made a bet with him, about the guy in the street - that he actually won - seeing the wager GiHun placed was for "for Everything" - I thought he was going to inherit the Squid Games - Chocolate Factory style... lol.

So there were 33 people left at start. That's 16 matches. 16 winners and 16 losers totalling 32. The one over was Han Mi-nyeo  who was seen being taken away and then showed to have been kept alive so she brought total up to 17.

I wonder if the director speaks English, or understands English to such a degree that he could tell the lines were poorly written and forced.

Binged it yesterday and my own thoughts on links between characters and such were well borne out.

It is a solid well made show, but it is quite formulaic. If I had to give a quick synopsis? It's the hunger games crossed with bum fights for the entertainment of the rich rather than governments and an added focus albeit belatedly on survivor guilt.

I'll certainly watch a season 2 and hope that it ties up what I feel are big loose ends.

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Think he was confident of winning it as he knew the skills of that game.

finished it last night, very enjoyable show.