The Reel Rejects - ALICE IN BORDERLAND Season 1, Eps 7 & 8 REVIEW!! 今際の国のアリス

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Starting point is 00:01:47 Ring the bell. Residency. Hope you two like the first season. What was your favorite game of the first season? and who's either your favorite or most intriguing character so far? Alice in Borderland, his first time watching. Yeah, this is great.

Starting point is 00:02:06 I've really, really enjoyed the show, probably one of the best shows I've seen this year. I don't know, I look at horror so, man. He's just come so far from where we've seen him in that first episode through where he is at the end of the season. He's, you know, he's cunning. he's brave he's someone who's you know gone through hell and back and he's still finding a reason to keep fighting because he wants to avenge his friends he wants to avenge all the people that have died and bring an end to this game and i think that's just awesome you know that's really impressive to bring a character from you know being perceived as like a slacker and like a a loser by his family to now being

Starting point is 00:02:53 the savior of, you know, the people of Tokyo. It's just a crazy contrast to believably sell over the course of eight episodes. And I think the show's done an amazing job of doing that. What about you, Taryn? I mean, I think the most intriguing character so far is a blonde guy, and I forget his name. But he's there at the end, and he's like, and when she announces more games, and he's like, I'm actually not mad about it. I'm like, oh, my God, like this guy, he's very smart.

Starting point is 00:03:20 He also knows how to just hang back, lie back. He's sort of figured out, I think maybe like the backdoor way to like the games where he doesn't have to like play hardcore when he just observes he gets more information. Right. And I like that. I think it's really smart. I'm glad he is still with our main characters because I always found him very intriguing from the top. yeah um and my favorite game i think would be the i think because it was so savage and it took place in the the plant nursery the botanical gardens would be the the wolf game right the fucking that i that i

Starting point is 00:04:10 that i pitched the mirror for oh man uh yeah it's a toughie favorite game they're They're all pretty savage. That one is definitely, I don't know, there's no winning that game. No. We technically win, but not really. No, no. So. It's awful.

Starting point is 00:04:31 They're all awful. Yeah, I think the one with the horses, I think that's probably my favorite game. Because they actually could win that one, but you have to use teamwork to be able to beat the horse people. But even they were playing a game. So, you know, there's, there is no winning. there was only surviving and you know I feel like the way that they were able to handle that situation the way that they were able to solve for that situation to be able to find a I don't even know if loophole is the right word but you know the thing about the games is their objective

Starting point is 00:05:06 in how you go about winning is not obvious so I feel like it takes really smart people to be able to figure that out so yeah I would say that one I'll say the second one yeah I liked that came a lot. That was the one that I thought I could win. Are the other ones? Hell no. Forget about it. Forget about it. The one with the doors, hell no. Uh-uh. Nope. Rejignation, this shirt, you can find it at Rejectnationshop.com, along with many of our other

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Starting point is 00:06:42 That's Shopify.com slash rejects. Thank you so much, Shopify, for helping. be an extension of real rejects. Thank you. Jay Rustin, thank you for sending another question, dude, this like went crazy, so controls, wait, what?

Starting point is 00:07:03 Controllers. This like went crazy, so controllers of the games are killed off. What card in the deck would be your call sign? I don't know. answer that um what my call sign that's tough queen of hearts sure um

Starting point is 00:07:28 aces spades okay yeah i don't know if we've seen what that means as of yet but i'm gonna go with that one because likely it sounds you know it's funny like what you're saying jay is that yeah it did it did absolutely go crazy where the controllers of the game did get killed off where we realized they were all just sort of pawns as well like everyone is a pawn in this bees game right i mean they still were getting delight out of uh helping her figure out the game and putting people in in certain places and seeing them killed and like making bets over it which is really gross but i assume in the way that they got there is the same way that the girls got there right do your job and you won't die help us build these games yes people will die you're still alive

Starting point is 00:08:25 and then the girls had an even harder job because they're not behind the computer right they're like well you have to go in pretend to be another person get people confused be like a spy which i would be like yeah i'll take it over actually playing the freaking game because i know they're not going to laser me if I work for him. Mm-hmm. Wild. Well, I could do. Yeah, man.

Starting point is 00:08:50 And we had one more from, ooh, sorry. Donica Costellano. She was asking if this is our first time watch. It is. See. Yes, yes, yes. And we've had a blast watching it.

Starting point is 00:09:07 We're going to move on to season two pretty soon. Mm-hmm. Um, but this show, I think the main question that me and him have gotten multiple times from everyone is he goes, is it better than squid game. People are saying that like it's between and you know what I have answered truthfully? I've said, yeah, I think so. But squid game is still a brilliant show. There are two different things.

Starting point is 00:09:36 I fell off a little bit in the new, the new squid game season. this one just really drew me in and it has a little bit more what I want to say is like heart built in but Squid Game still had a lot of heart once we got into it I think it's really

Starting point is 00:09:56 that's a tough question and I'm sure we'll continue to get asked that because I love Squid game loved it from the second it came out but also I love this show yeah I think the difference here and it's been a minute I've seen in Squid game I've rewatched the first episode which is an

Starting point is 00:10:14 amazing pilot but I think the one of the differences is is the desperation people will put themselves through to acquire a prize and the way that they'll let money and the the promise of money change them whereas this show is about how people adapt to circumstances for the survival and how they let the unambiguous or the ambiguous nature of the circumstance they found themselves in dictate their actions and what keeps them going in spite of not knowing where it leads what keeps you surviving in the face of hell and I think that this show executes that brilliantly and shows how all these different characters have changed in the face of that from

Starting point is 00:11:06 our main character to the dude with the tattoos and the blades and the girl who he was fighting at the end and she's an awesome character and the fact of her mom accepted her like on her deathbed

Starting point is 00:11:24 that was all beautiful everyone's come such a long way in this world and even you know was changing before the world that kind of come into their lives the way the best friendships have been corrupted and were in a position for them to have to kill each other

Starting point is 00:11:41 or at least, you know, one friend is in the position where he believes he has to defend himself and then that causes him to outwardly project all of his pain and cause all these other people to kill because he now has an excuse to justify that because he feels like his friend was corrupted. So I feel like watching all these people go through these changes and transformations because they feel lost and they all they know how to do with survive because all they've had is the experience of being a person in the world. It's just a really fascinating character study coupled with the circumstances in which they're put in because the games themselves are really creative.

Starting point is 00:12:19 Yeah, I agree. The one similarity that they do share is that, you know, in Squid Game, they are going after money, but if they don't play the game, they will die. They will get shot and killed. Yeah, they're finding for money in their lives, for sure. And I like that similarity. I mean, because, you know, within this, I guess once you get to the beach, the prize is really the cards, but we didn't know really all of that until we got towards the end.

Starting point is 00:12:46 But, yeah, this one shows a little bit more of the grit of like, do you want to live or do you not? Because if you don't, then we go back to the very first episode, how this opened up. And he was like, I'm out of visas or like, it's my third day and he gets lasered immediately. And I'm like, so there's always a way out, I think, in this. Like, if you're done, you're done. And it's kind of cool to see Orisu with his new friends and them realizing the strength he has in the game. Even though all of this shit has happened, he did want to die. He did.

Starting point is 00:13:27 And that girl brought him back to life and was like, you know, there's no use. like might as well not even do it if you don't want to if you don't want to be here and now he's he is here and he did fight for other people's lives and now he'll continue to do that and i'm excited to see what happens yeah great writing great great direction i mean it all looks good great characters i can't wait to get to season two um i don't really have any other thoughts in that i mean i i love it i think it's great yeah i know i really love the show Yeah, from knowing nothing about it to finally, having seen the first season, I can't wait to see where it goes. I think the writing is really compelling.

Starting point is 00:14:12 I think the acting is amazing. I don't know the rules as far as how TV nominations go, but the dude plays RAS. I would give that man a frigging award. Give him a... You would definitely get the Emmy. Yeah, the Emmy. Yeah, he deserves an Emmy Award. But I don't know if they count

Starting point is 00:14:32 shows in Japan. I hope Japanese programming have their own version of the Emmys because, yeah, I do definitely be nominated. But yeah, those are my thoughts for now, and I can't wait for season two. I'm excited. We can't wait. So leave all the likes, all the comments.

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The Reel Rejects - ALICE IN BORDERLAND Season 1, Eps 7 & 8 REVIEW!! 今際の国のアリス

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