Starts Sept 17th. Intriguing. A very well put together trailer.
I just finished watching it after a binge. Enjoyable. the best thing was watching the games and seeing them play out.
I didn't really pick up on many things people seemed to pick up on here so have a few questions:
Couple of observations:
That's the thing about these kinds of things. Will they make season 2 focus on games more? the way the likes of Saw became all about the traps and Final Destination became about the elaborate deaths
I really enjoyed that, it was solid from start to finish.
I hope they go in a different direction for season 2, and not merely a rejig of season 1 with different games.
I wonder if that means he's figured out a story arc. Making it feel like an even bigger difference in how long he had to plan the first season.
Seems like we might also be getting a season 3 too; Dong-hyuk saying he's in talks for 2 more seasons...
If this is to be believed, Hwang Dong-hyuk is at least considering the character journeys we might see in form Season 2 takes; with the obvious consideration being "what happens to Gi-hun?"
Makes me think of the route they went with Battle Royale 2. Or just simply be more about the takedown of the games, teaming with the detective
The author has said that he has nothing else past a first season so I think they need someone new in. I would take season 1 as the finished product. A season 2 can only be a disappointment unless lightning strikes twice
A standalone season 2, with small tie-ins,does sound like would be good.
Definitely going to be a challenge for the creators. I imagine this was in the works for years (at least in someones imagination) and from what I gathered, season 2 is gonna be fresh and had to be thought about so it doesn't sound like it's going to have that luxury of time building up in the creators mind.
Well we're definitely getting a season 2 so it's just a question of what the creators can think of in terms of taking the story forward. The surprise of that first discovery is gone, so I guess it's whether the writers can think of something that's as engaging.
In my head, I'd chuckle if the first episode would be like Suicide Squad where we follow a new batch... Only for everyone to get killed in the first game. Statistically, it's bound to happen!
A season 2 will be difficult as the story is done. A season 2 could end up like Prison Break or 12 Reasons seasons 2 which were just made to cash in on the success of season 1 but were completely forgettable and unnecessary. A season 2 of this would need to be of the quality and imagination of a standalone series which I cannot see happening.
Wrapped this last night and hot damn, what a show. The last little shoe drop didn't quite work for me, but gotta applaud for an overall gripping ride. Great characters and sense of escalation, while never either wallowing or grotesque for its own sake (sometimes these battle royale ideas are more interested in violence than anything else).
Not quite sure what I'd want to see from a season 2; there are many ways it can be done "wrong", especially if they just do the same again, just bigger.
MrBeast recreated the whole game
Sure was a rough one!
The premise of this meant I was always waiting for the moment the comfortable status quo everyone had established would be whipped away. Damn, episode 6. There it goes. Easily the saddest episode, for that reason, as reality dawned for some.
This is why it's so important to write interesting, engaging characters; so that when the axe falls you feel the cost that bit more. 456 has been interesting as a lead, being such a loser deadbeat in reality, but a pillar of decency in the Game. Nobody came out a hero regardless - while at least one returned a qualified, unrepentant shíthead (someone more dishonest than the gang leader).
I know hype can sometimes be the worst thing for expectations, but I'm loving this. Well deserving of its status.
Why didn't contestants just walk slowly along the two middle support bars of the bridge?
Up to episode 5! Yeah, definitely that's.. that's episode 5 alright.
Very late to the party but up to episode 5 and kinda gripped. The characters are all painted with broad strokes but that only makes them distinct, impactful IMO. Matches the tone of the games themselves.
They changed the rules when anyone broke the game so no reason to think they wouldn't have with this example.
The detective story line is definitely going to play out in season 2. If you don't have a shot of someone's face dead then they ain't dead.
They may not have allowed that as part of the rules, and might've shot anyone who tried it.
just finished it last night and really enjoyed it. As with all these things there are a few minor holes in the plot. The one scene that didn't ring true for me was
Gi-hun's anguish at the death of Sae-byeok. Unless I'd missed something, they'd hardly interacted prior to that, and he hadn't batted an eyelid at the death of Abdul who he had formed something of a bond with.
Also I feel stupid for not realising that,
in a show so obviously indebted to The Prisoner, I should have been asking "Who is Number 001?"
Wouldn't have made for a very good episode though
My 'hack' for that game was to sit at the edge of the safe glass on row one and test the next one by applying pressure/tapping it with your legs. Gap was definitely short enough.
Either that or hoping your nimble enough to run across the entire bridge, hopping from one to the next by spending a split second on each tile.
I really enjoyed this but I struggle to understand the worldwide acclaim and it being heralded as some sort of masterpiece that stands among the TV greats. Let alone being the best thing Netflix have ever made, I can think of a ton of shows that are better off-hand, like Midnight Mass, Haunting of Hill House, Godless, The Queen's Gambit, etc.
Like - it's definitely entertaining and well made, the actors are good and it's fairly unique in a general sense, but that's about it for me.
Outside of the actual games themselves, which are handled pretty well, didn't find the characters particuarly compelling, dialogue was weak, plot resolution was incredibly uninspired. Just an average decent quirky show.
Kinda funny how Alice in Borderlands came out shortly before Squid Games with a very similar premise and is of similar quality and barely a whisper about it.
Overall yeah I liked it but I'd say it's a 6.5/10.
I'm a bit late to the party, I was very impressed but the loose threads bothered me
(1) Did the detectives messages end up getting sent ? That storyline just dissapeared.
(2) On the glass bridge, why didn't the contestants just run along the box rails or at least grab them as they fell
I won't gripe too much, the gut wrench of Episode 6 (marbles episode) was heart breaking.
Season 2 is happening
Just looked back at the latter scene now...
We see the gun pointed at the old man's head, then hear a gunshot as Gi-Hun walks away and the wall/screen obscures the guard and presumed victim, then guard comes partially in to view again, but nothing more. So the guard could have used a blank.
There are a few things not explained. Why did the detectives brother stay, if he won and got the money also why not just pay his rent or tell the brother he was travelling? He was also only missing a month?
Why show the old man getting shot instead of it happening off screen and hearing the shot if they are going to say it didn’t happen.
I was wondering why Seong Gi-hun didn't just
finish the game off by proceeding to the head, thus winning without knives and other madness, when he temporarily disabled his opponent by throwing sand in his eyes
- assume I've misunderstood something
