We're up to episode 6 and I just want to say, this is fantastic. The premise isn't original but it executes on the formula wonderfully.
Is anyone else watching it?
Is anyone else watching it?
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Finished it yesterday and it's bloody brilliant.
Love how Netflix is bringing all these foreign shows and films to the mainstream that you'd never normally see outside of importing, in some London cinema or in a late-night film season.
It got even tenser as the games went on and only the main characters remained.
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I'll stick to the premise as stated on Netflix, so as not to spoil things.Originally posted by Dogg Thang View Post
From what I understand, "squid games" are what people in Korea call playground games; hide-and-seek, piggy-in-the-middle, stuff like that.
The story follows a group of people who are down on their luck, with debts etc., and a mysterious man appears and tells them they can take part in a game in which they can win money.
The rest goes in a direction that if you've ever seen the many, many anime/visual novels based on this premise, you'll already be able to guess. But like I said above, it just executes extremely well on the formula.Comment
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Cool, thanks. I'll look it up and check it out.Comment
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I was coerced into watching two episodes of it dubbed, which I do not recommend.Comment
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the squid game referenced in the title is a specific playground game played in S.Korea that has a layout that looks vaguely like a squid if you squint at it without glasses on across the room.
However, it's all explained in the first five minutes of the first episode.
Other than that, the less you know, the more you'll enjoy it (especially subbed).
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I'm up to the final episode - watching tonight. I like it a lot. Tense as all get out. It's got absurdly higher production values than any K-drama I've watched before, but still has that melodramatic corniness and stock characters that they usually do. The design of everything in it is very cool though. It's sort of 'Baroque Gen Z', if I can just make up a phrase right here.Comment
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I feel as though a remake of Squid Game misses the point. The premise of the show is really thin; "death games" have been done in fiction for donkey's years. The themes are supposed to be a cutting social commentary of contemporary South Korean society, so it's not so easy to transplant wholesale.Originally posted by Neon Ignition View Post
That being said, I would love a total rework that uses a different society's problems as its basis. I could imagine a UK version of Squid Game that draws on UK-based social issues, with a different over-arching metaphor to better suit that.Comment
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You can see why Fincher's drawn to the material. I mean The Game is obviously different but also, kind of, y'know, the same.
I totally agree that it's vital that it's reworked to hold a mirror up to the social inadequacies of wherever it's remade. Otherwise it's just ye olde 'you die in the game you die for real' trope.Comment
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