You're like 3 years too late.
The brothers side plot was so pointless and the reveal was laughable
Yeah, that really did feel pointless. Some people think the cop (sorry I can't remember any one's names) is still alive, and maybe season 2 will give this plot line some payoff.
Also I didn't really like the bridge game. It had some good moments, but there was 0 skill in it, it was all just luck, and the games coming down to a 1v1 was kind of lame.
I can't bring myself to watch Squid Game . If I wanted to see the rich get their jollies by making the common folk kill each other for the financial equivalent of table scraps, I'd just go outside.
I watched it subbed, but apparently it's available dubbed also? I don't know which is superior.The dub is so laughably atrocious I don't know how anyone managed to watch it.
I think the point of the bridge game was actually that it was unfair. The people running the games weren't really doing it to find the best player, they just wanted to have fun watching poor people die.And yeah, this. It's the whole capitalism critique. The Frontman gives his whole speech about how the rules of the game are so important because that's what makes it fair. Everyone there has an equal chance to get ahead with their own skill and ingenuity, you can't cheat. And then I think it's the literal next episode where he instantly changes the rules when they figure out a game.
Anyway, I loved this show. I'm excited/nervous for season 2. It could be very good or very bad. I hope they don't fuck it up. If you want to see other good Korean dramas on Netflix, try All Of Us Are Dead. About highschool students trapped in school when a zombie outbreak begins
Also Hellbound is good. About innocent people randomly being dammed to Hell for unknown reasons. An angel will appear and tell you the exact time you will die, and that you are fated for hell. Then when the time comes, these hulking monsters appear and beat you to death and then drag your soul to hell. The show is about society's reaction to this phenomenon
If it helps, they only show the rich assholes in the last few episodes, and not a whole bunch even then.
Those were hilariously bad. As in "bad acting". I recall reading somewhere they aren't actually actors but English teachers and the like that happen to live in Korea, but I don't know if that statement is true or not.IIRC, this isn't true, they were actually actors. They defended themselves by saying this is the result of a director who only speaks Korean directing an English scene. Ditto for the editors. They probably sound fine in Korean, but laughably bad to us.
Them and the rich dudes were so badly written it felt like a different show
IIRC, this isn't true, they were actually actors. They defended themselves by saying this is the result of a director who only speaks Korean directing an English scene. Ditto for the editors. They probably sound fine in Korean, but laughably bad to us.
I really do hope hes still alive so we can get some kind of payoff otherwiseyeahpointless side quest.I'd like to think for a moment the cell phone got just enough signal to send a little message.
IIR the reason the rich people at the end sounded so awkward and unnatural when speaking English is because that's how they were told to speak for subtitling purposes, or something like that.It was such a short part of the series I can't say I was bothered by it even a little.