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Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 2:43 pm
by TheCatt
Korean series about people in the grips of poverty and their oppression by the rich.

I'm only 1 episode in.

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 3:11 pm
by GORDON
It's pretty popular atm

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 3:22 pm
by TheCatt
GORDON wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 3:11 pm It's pretty popular atm
You watched it?

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 5:06 pm
by GORDON
No. Everyone is talking about it the last 2-3 days, but until this post I didn't know what it was about

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 5:13 pm
by TheCatt
GORDON wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 5:06 pm No. Everyone is talking about it the last 2-3 days, but until this post I didn't know what it was about
Well, the plot is a little different than I describe, but I didn't want to spoil anyone if they didn't know.

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 6:23 pm
by Leisher
I'm 2 episodes in and enjoying it.

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 6:27 pm
by GORDON
I assumed it was a cartoon kid show

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 6:35 pm
by Leisher
The lead from Train to Busan shows up in Ep 1.

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 6:38 pm
by GORDON
Oh that ethnic film?

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2021 5:33 pm
by TheCatt
Image

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2021 12:15 am
by Leisher
Episode 6...dude...

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2021 10:47 am
by Leisher
A new day and I'm still thinking about that episode. Awesome performances from all involved. Oh Yeong-su is an absolutely amazing actor. He's been so perfect throughout the show.

This was easily one of the most brutal, tough to watch episodes of any show ever made. It's the episode that really puts a stamp on the series. This was the flag in the ground. Brilliantly done.

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2021 6:21 pm
by Troy
At some point I need to take the plunge - the wife said it was intense and pretty good.

It's hella anticapitalistic though - right? That's the whole point? Wild that it's so popular in America.

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2021 6:25 pm
by TheCatt
Troy wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 6:21 pm It's hella anticapitalistic though - right? That's the whole point? Wild that it's so popular in America.
Yes. A lot of America also thought Born in the USA was a very patriotic song, so...

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2021 10:49 pm
by Leisher
Troy wrote: Thu Oct 21, 2021 6:21 pm It's hella anticapitalistic though - right? That's the whole point?
Indeed. Although that message is pretty flawed.

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 2:28 am
by Leisher
Loved this show, although I did not love the ending.

I get that he would be depressed, but he doesn't even bother trying to see his kid before going on his mission of revenge? He also waited a year to help the orphan and his buddy's mom?



Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:45 pm
by GORDON
It was ok. Original, at least.

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 11:26 am
by Leisher
Lebron agrees with me on the ending, but the show's creator responds in a funny and kind of petty way.

Yeah, it's your art, but it's also pretty flawed art. For example: Your overall theme of anti-capitalism is broken in multiple places. You don't have to take the criticism, but the criticism is more accurate than some of the things you put in your show.

Most human beings that are made into billionaires over night wouldn't sit on the money and live in poverty for a year, while ignoring their promise to friends whose deaths he can't get over, and then ignore his daughter who is one of the reasons he participated and needed the money in the first place. Also, if 001 wasn't willing to actually die, then why did he participate in the Tug of War game? It's easy to see how Red Light, Green Light could spare him or that he just wouldn't be killed if his cookie wasn't perfect, but he was legit in danger during tug of war.

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 11:55 am
by GORDON
I looked it up, the prize was about $30 million in real money.

Squid Game - Nflix

Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2021 11:57 am
by GORDON
Also, maybe 001 wasn't really handcuffed to the rope?