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

Ok, fair enough, I stand corrected but I thought the person who asked the question simply forgot about Han Mi surviving so not sure what happened to the other 3 pairs.

Just finished it there, thought it was okay but it ended very poorly - peaked in episode six and was downhill from there.

All the big twists were sign-posted a mile off, the 001 thing was obvious from the moment he survived the riot and they really gave the game away when they didn't show him die after the marble game. Same with the cops' brother being involved and Gi Hun's mam being dead when he got back.

Binged it too over a few nights.

Decent show but not as great as many are saying. An interesting idea but quite formulaic as others have said. And also think that some of the twists were fairly obvious.

6.5/10

Just finished it and thought it was fantastic.

it was a very good show, kept me hanging on for the most part, though there were a few things I wasn't mad about.

The episode with the marbles hit me the hardest, was on the verge of tears after it.

I quite enjoyed the bit in the last episode where they showed the pictures of the finalists taken for the first game and you can see how much they've changed.

Some of the topics addressed felt a bit cliched but they were done in an interesting way. Survivor's guilt, survival of the fittest, empathy vs. selfishness, class differences, treatment of immigrants.

I wasn't mad about the ending though I'd also wonder what would be a satisfying ending in this case. It didn't really do anything new for me. It felt like it lost the run of itself a bit towards the end.

Quite disappointed that they left the door open for a second season. I hope it doesn't dilute the quality.

That's what I was saying. It's a pretty niche show compared to others in the top 10. Like why didn't Alive in Borderland get the same reaction? But it seems a series just gets talked about by people then others want to see. Wouldn't surprise me if it was due to some celeb or "influencer" or someone along those lines.

It might increase viewership for those other shows like AiB, Sweet Home and Kingdom. But we know Netflix counts those who watch the first 2 minutes, which is a strange idea, so how many actually like it enough to finish the series and seek out the similar shows?

Finished it last night, I enjoyed it but equally didnt think it was that good that it deserved all the media hype. It being Netflixs most watched show ever is probably a function of them attracting more and more subscribers rather than Squidgame being essential watching tv.

As others said the VIPs really lowered the tone. Might have been better if they showed people all over the world betting on the characters rather than just this bunch of wealthy people. Their animal masks did remind me of the Wicker Man though so maybe a nod to that by the director.

I also wish they had of fleshed out the harvesting of organs more, I thought they missed a good trick there becasue in real life China there is a trade from poor people to rich for their organs. They could have made a good sub plot out of that

Id say 7/10 overall and will watch the sequel when ever it arrives

The VIPs made the ambient dialogue in Bethesda games sound like normal and articulate conversation.

It's a perfectly watchable show. I mean, its fine. It's definitely better than Netflix's usual content. The cinematography is gorgeous. It does suffer from terrible dialogue, bad writing in whole segments (the whole cop thing was told so so bad, and his brother etc...) Couldn't give a crap about frontmans character or any of the masked VIP's, honestly they didn't even make sence, they paid what 30odd million to watch two games at the end, which were the crappy games, marbles wtf. Then whole scenes with the doctor harvesting organs...hello...POINTLESS NONSENCE! Loads more guff that went nowhere but I can't think right now. I honestly didn't "get" a lot of why these things happened, and it's not like I missed anything. It's just poorly written. You'd want to be blind to not have figured out who the old man was. It tried to be clever but failed miserably. I'd recommend it to people who are used to crappy TV shows...

As one fella said in work when I asked did he watch Breaking Bad/Wire/Better Call Saul/Oz/etc... he said "no they're total shyte"...but he loved squid game! There's your demographic.

How did not one person out of all the contestants, not notice the huge clues on the dorm walls?

Article here on the English speaking actors.

Reading it you can see the blame not really all with them.

They got 4m new subscribers out of it.

It's hard to figure how valuable this has been for netflix..

enough to get a bunch of money and subscriptions and to the level where folks who sound like they were less interested in it.. watched it for hype level for sure

that seems like a pretty good result

More seasons would clear that up a bit I'd say. I wasn't as pushed on the following Stranger Things seasons as much as I remember being about the first one.. but each Stranger Things seasons has certainly come across as being big successes for netflix.

So probably all about what the Squid Game creators come up for the next seasons and if they can figure out ways to keep they audience

It meant nothing until you gave it in WON👍

I loved the frontman, his english accent was so cool.

You can tell the actor is from a rich Korean family with that accent ... the VIP's however ?? wtf was that ???

Interesting, I do think this is the English voice , he is from a wealthy family - probably went to an English school.