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

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.

Disagree , way too many clues that I was hoping it was a double bluff.

Anyway some interesting fan theories:

1.The cards chosen at the train station decide if you are a player or guard. He choose blue which the players wear. The guards wear red

2. The old man is long lost main character father. The fact that old man talks about his son liking chocolate milk, the same alley, the spanking that he gave son. ( personally I think not possible but grandfather might)

3. The deaths are foreshadowed, the girl cut throat, the fall from bridge

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.

Enjoyed apart from the VIP segments which were brutal to watch.

Interesting none of them were Korean, all seemed to be American and one Eastern European/Russian.

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.