The Reel Rejects - ALICE IN BORDERLAND Season 2 Episode 4, 5, & 6 REVIEW!! 今際の国のアリス

Episode Date: September 21, 2025

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Episode four in three, two, one. I clicked it. All right. Oh, wow. Okay. We just got done watching Alice in Borderland season two, episodes four through six. If you are listening to us on Apple or Spotify, please give us a five-star. rating and do all

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Starting with Residence Z. I think we all knew trying to help the kid would make things more difficult. Question. What was your favorite game of this set of episodes? Also, I totally understand the one guy in the alley in the first. episode who just let his visa expire yeah yeah you and me both savage i think out of all these games i think it's still the the one with uh the tag oh i like the jack one i mean technically that started in episode three but i finished in episode four i don't know just something about

that one just like forming alliances and trust really i don't know just played to my uh my sensibilities of you know human psychology and connection and stuff so I thought that game was really interesting but I think each of them have their own sort of thing all the ones with the doctor character really had me intrigued because I just like the way that he he sort of thinks and evaluates and like breaks people down and just the I don't know the the the conversations around whatever games he's in are always the most intriguing to me so that's what I would say for me what about you yeah I like that I feel like the, what's the one where they had the thing around their neck and they had to show it?

That's the Jack one. That's what jack one. Yeah. Okay, because I was like, I forgot what card that was. I was going to say that one or the tag one. But I'm only choosing that one because I'm thinking in my brain of like, how could I win? And it would be one of those two where you try to convince people either to be on your side or you're smart enough just to get. get tagged and be on the queen's side if she's going to win so that you don't die, right?

Yeah. I mean, all the games are very intriguing. This last math one was like, like, that would not be one that I would be excited to be in. I would lose, but watching him break down people's psychology of it was interesting to me. But I think that, yeah, that one would, I would lose. And then the one The King of Spays I don't even know what the game is

Survive or try to kill him Before you can kill you But yeah So I think we only have three games Right Am I missing one? No Yeah we had the Jack game

We had the King of Hearts And we had the scales Yeah that's it Because we You know Through these episodes We spent more time Getting a lot of backdrops

Yeah A lot of characters Like Our girl And then we found out He's a doctor. And then with the kid, that was like very sweet. But it was, I think it was mostly sweet to see Erosu and climber together in the water

looking at the elephants. Finally they get together after they have a big win where they like save this kid's life. They're both really selfless. And that was like a really beautiful moment where they took a lot of time. Yeah. That was like a decent amount of time. they were just wandering around looking at stuff and they they came upon that place and were straight up chilling um yeah like that they get to have times of peace and playfulness like even them like trying to catch the rabbit was really fun and really nice oh yeah that was the episode four right yeah that was episode four yes so the fact that we get to have these like lower moments with them before we go back into the questions of of morality and purpose and why we fight and fairness you know getting a sense of like is always nice between those segments because yeah all of it's good and like I think the

creative team behind this the composing really helps sell those moments and make them hit harder coupled with the dialogue for just making a really great dichotomy between you know enjoying life showing what it could be and then as fighting for that life on the other side totally I absolutely agree all right next question you want to take it sure J. Russian, it's weird the term visa since it's what people use to get into the U.S. Question, does it ever stay the length of time on the visa there? Does it ever stay in the length of time on the visa there? I think when you come here, you do have a limited amount of time for your visa.

It depends on your work. I don't, I was born here. Yeah. But I do know friends who, like, have come out here for work. and you have a limited amount of time. Yeah, I would not be the expert in that, Jay. But I'm also very curious to know where you're from, man, because, yeah, you're having this question,

and yeah, you're always here supporting us. And, yeah, I would very much be curious to know about that. But, yeah, I would not be the expert on that. But thank you for the question. I appreciate you. For sure. Okay. Last question.

Lydia Lane. Hi, Taryn, Aaron. I have been silent. I have been a silent patron for five months now, but wanted to comment because nobody's been answering this for you. I know Aaron keeps on asking, is this Alice every time we were introduced to a new character? So I thought I would let you know.

The title is a word play of Alice in Wonderland, and the main character, Arisou, is Alice. Yes, which I think we guessed maybe a little while ago, but we weren't sure. Yeah, comments confirm this. Yeah, Arisu is the Japanese phonetic equivalent of Alice. You can hear it. If you listen to people call his name,

it sounds like Alisou. Ah. But written Arisu. Just thought I'd let you know. I love that, Lydia. We love you right back. Dude, thank you for being a silent patron and finally speaking truth and giving us some nuggets of wisdom.

I love that. I appreciate you in the support. And we needed it because, remember, we saw in episode 3, the actual Alice in Wonderland in that game? or was it episode two? Remember how she was dressed like Alice in Wonderland?

Yes. And a guy looks like Chucky. Not that we thought she was Alice, but like you get what I'm saying. She kind of looked like in Alice. She definitely did. Like what was that dress about? For sure.

I don't know. Styling though. I know. I was styling over there in Japan. Style and styling. Well, um, let me think about like what was my

oh, you know what I was still waiting on is like the freaking fireworks. And I know, we'll get to it. Yeah. But that I'm very intrigued by. Also, our camo pants guy coming back, but now, like, is he dead? He's not dead.

He's going to, he is like Michael Myers. He, you could shoot him seven times. He'll lay there and then be like, whoa. And there he is. I'm excited to see what happens there. I kind of like that the girl went off on her own. I thought it was a really sweet moment when she goes to hug him after, you know, You know, he gets shot.

She's sort of crying because he taught her basically everything that she knows now in order to be able to survive on her own and within this world. And I thought it was really sweet when Arisou and our climber girl, you know, find each other again. I was like, yay. I just really hope that Chris, our blondie guy, meets up with our girl who just visited her mom. Yeah. Like I hope they can get back together because they're. buddies like I yeah like I will you can only imagine that once they see each other it's going to be like oh my god you're alive like what joy that'll be and then if we could see them all play together that would kind of be what I would like to see towards the end here like if we had our blondie that girl erasu climber I guess kid would still be with us and we all just like tear up the games that would be awesome but you get back together again

Yeah, I would love to see everybody back together because we started off all in the same car, or at least, you know, in that particular area at the beginning of this season. And then we've kind of all dispersed into our own ways. Our climber girl in Eroso have stayed together for the most part, except for, you know, that episode four, six, no, episode five when they got separated. And, yeah, we get to see them on their individual journeys. you know he had his brush with the king of spades and then she got to find a new purpose to live a new purpose to keep going through interacting with this kid and seeing all these other people that wanted to quit life and then kind of through their eyes got to experience the desire

to want to keep fighting again i thought that was beautiful yeah i thought that was great um and yeah we've really grown this show and like all of our cast of characters and getting to experience the show outside of the immediate peer view of Erosso and what he has going on. Now we're spending time with our nudely discovered doctor. You know, we're following a little bit of our other chick who has the stick in her mouth. And even following Ann now and seeing where she's trying to uncover, like discovering how far this thing goes. And each of them separately are finding this new reason to keep fighting. and I hope that we get to see them all come together in the end because I think we've all

kind of come up individually in this new purpose and I think that once we get together we'll be unstoppable because she even said the girl with the stick in her mouth whose mom passed or she wants to get back to her mom said that it's harder to do this alone and you see that all of them are kind of going through their own individual journeys and discovering you know new things about themselves, new things about people along this journey. And I think that's beautiful. You know, this game is ultimately the heightened experience of life and, you know, what people do in these sort of situation, you know, whether they submit to their worst impulses

or they become better altruistic people because of this. It's really the ultimate test of the human experience through the lens of, you know, morbid and messed up games. And that's great. And that's, I mean, it's unfortunate that it takes this for them to really evaluate what their lives are, what their value is, and letting people in in the face of their traumas. I think that's, it's an interesting thing because I wonder what happens, say they do get back to the real world. Are they even able to adjust? Do they have this new lease on life?

or do they want to go back to the games because we keep hearing people say like oh this is the place that feels more real this is what what life should be and you know it's the surviving that kind of keeps us going and yeah i don't know where this goes i don't know what the the leadership has in store clearly the girl who is in the tag game says there is implies that there is some sort of end we still know what the the fireworks are all about. All right. I'm just, I'm curious. They keep teasing us with questions, and I hope that we had some semblance of answers in these last two episodes of season two.

Me too, because there's a lot of people that, not a lot, but there was a decent amount of people who were like, we don't want to go back. And I was like, um, okay.

Wow. All right. And, but then I got it once we had that episode. We're in this quaint little neighborhood and they're all like found themselves in the jungle and they're, people are like barbecuing over here and then we walk to the girl inside the van who's like talking about the fireworks and it looks like lovely like they found a community within this shithole of a life that they were just like thrown into with these games so that I guess when they all have a visa off they're able to spend time together but then of course king of spades rolls through and kills them all um it's just yeah this is just wild but um I I still I still thought, like, in seeing that quaint little town,

I was like, oh, I maybe get why people would be like, you do have more freedom here. You can kind of do what you want. But at the same time, the whole argument that our climber girl makes during tag is like, but you're going to have to stay here and keep killing each other. Yeah. Like, it's not, like, you don't just get to sit back. Like, every game you play, you're going to have to kill someone.

period that's how they set it up it's it's fight or flight like kind of a thing like you you have to do it or you're dead um and also i you know the in a lot of these episodes uh they were a lot about sacrifice like um you know our climber girl on air suit basically sacrificed their lives on the line to go play tag for a kid they just met they don't know but they care for him because they're selfless people, they go in, they save his life. And at the same time, you know, the guy opposite of Blondie was made a sacrifice for himself for his ideals. Like he's just like fighting to finally be like, I'm living life now on my own terms because he was so corporate, such a lawyer. You have to like follow all of these things.

And so does our Blondie. He had to follow that guy. Like he had to just go, all right. go tell them yet again that they can't receive a transplant because somebody with money is now going to get it and that sucks that takes a toll on you so I'm intrigued to see where um the rest of this story takes us in giving us that foundation for these characters that we've seen how are we going to pay that fully off um yeah I really like this show I think it's been like a lot of fun um And we have two.

Two more in season two and then whenever season three drops, we will cover season three. Yeah. All right. Well, we're excited. Do you have any last thoughts? No. I'm just excited to see how this season resolves itself. I know that I think it's a pretty big gap, at least as far as release goes.

Because I want to say this came out. The last season two came out in 2022 and season three. Oh, wow. coming out okay yeah so i don't know if there's like a gap narratively or there's just a gap within the time i was released but i'm excited to see what comes of it and yeah i hope you guys keep keep tuning in and you guys are liking our reactions because we love watching this show and yeah yeah i just keep sending us questions yeah please keep sending us questions give us uh your your thoughts your feelings and different variety of questions you know even if you think

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