The Reel Rejects - SQUID GAME 2x05 Breakdown & Review!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:37 Well, guys, we watch Squid Game 2 by 5 and I need a snack. I'll tell you that much. Well, good. You get a cookie and some fresh milk. Oh, ha, ha. I get it. Like the Squid game. That's right.

Starting point is 00:01:56 Uh-huh. That's hilarious. I don't think I've heard of funny. joke all day. That's actually the next game is you have to do a successful stand-up routine for five minutes off the top of your head. If you don't get enough laughs.

Starting point is 00:02:09 With a gun pointed out of you. You get a minimum of five laughs and we'll shoot you on site. Oh man, that's hard. Yeah. We are a game. Okay. Well, Jod, please. You know the drill. Yes, yes. What did I think

Starting point is 00:02:23 about the episode? Yeah, yeah. I thought whatever you think. I'll not pretend to pay attention. Don't worry. all right um no this i mean this has been a really terrific season thus far i've said this before but you know given the passage of time and given the phenomenon of the first season i was like i don't know man i don't know how this will go but this has been a really rich season and i really have enjoyed the writing especially i mean you know the the world of the games is great and i think the way they've

Starting point is 00:02:52 subverted the games has been a nice it's been really nice to to be on the receiving end of you know as squirmy as it is because yeah you get that first rush of regular red light green light and then just seeing what the next games will become has been a really fun sort of game in and of itself being introduced to slightly new things uh and sort of as an outsider as an american you know just sort of trying to figure out you know the the little rules and nuances um but i like the debates of this episode a lot i liked just the opportunities this afforded to again continue interrogating the whole nature of the game at least from the player's perspective and then getting the

Starting point is 00:03:30 little bits between you got it Inho and Gihun like them debating John you nailed it. General you know actual philosophy of the greater game from

Starting point is 00:03:45 what Gihon does know is you know the inside and yeah you know I think each adding the every game we vote component I think is nice because it opens up these opportunities for it's a mechanic but i think it's a conscientious one because it then shuffles the board again and gives you fodder for interesting conversations and and it keeps kind of probing that idea of the bargaining and the gambling that everyone's doing

Starting point is 00:04:13 and why and you know what truths still have yet to be uncovered for certain people and their motivations uh and they're just nicely drawing tension out of every little thing like you know that that whole thing at the door when she's like begging to just let them go to the bathroom was like one of those things where i'm like god is this going to open up the opportunity for one of them to get shanked is this is going to be really demoralizing like humiliating situation there's a moment like that in season one there is yeah no absolutely with uh with uh but um yeah i i i know with the lady oh oh oh oh yeah yeah yeah yeah where she begs them to

Starting point is 00:04:51 yeah um but yeah i liked how that was handled he and just the opportunities for, yeah, this interesting little trio. I mean, there are so many overlapping Venn diagrams of character relations, but I feel like our little underdog team there whose names I would like to commit to memory, but, you know, it'll take a moment, but, yeah, watching as like the mom. It's really easy. Transwoman. Transwoman?

Starting point is 00:05:17 Old woman. Old woman. Pregnant women. Old woman's son. Old woman's son. Yes. But even that, like even starting off. I think the conversation and the involvement they've had with the trans character especially has been nicely handled.

Starting point is 00:05:33 I mean, you know, it's... John, whenever there's a trans character, they are shoving their opinions in my face. They are shoving their agenda, but, like, you know, it stands... Just the second they exist, they are shoving their opinion. Yes. And I mean, certainly... For those who are new, this is... This is...

Starting point is 00:05:49 This is... Satire. I mean, you know, there is one... trans character, which, you know, as a cross section... There's too many! Yeah! Get them out of here! But no. They're not in real life. They don't, yeah.

Starting point is 00:06:05 This is not a proper reflection of society. But yeah, you know, the presence that that actor has has been really nice because so much of their performance has been kind of... It's taken a while to get the vocal clarification on who are you? What is your story? Why are you

Starting point is 00:06:25 here what's your motivation for staying and continuing. And it's like as sympathetic as that character is, I think it's interesting to watch the choice be made because of how alone she is in the world. And she's finally here finding a couple people that she's got kinship with. And I'm sure, you know, it's not really about spending more time with them

Starting point is 00:06:44 or anything like that. But it does create this interesting opportunity for real compassion to enter her life in a way that it doesn't feel like has been present at all. And watching as the older, you know, as mom, you know, in her own way, comes around to just by being forced into the situation and getting to know this person under the surface a little deeper, in her own way, at least,

Starting point is 00:07:08 is coming around to, you know, having a more benevolent approach to this person. And at least, even if she doesn't fully get it, she's at least trying to understand and be accepting. And I think it's been nicely performed and nicely written thus far. I mean, certainly, yes, it is a conversation that is very relevant. and any time it pops up, everyone's like, ah, you're pandering. But I feel like here it doesn't feel like pandering. And I think it is inappropriate

Starting point is 00:07:33 because this show is going for a cross-section of so many parts of society and how the vicious cycle of, you know, finance, debt, all that stuff affects everyone for different reasons. I think it's a nice thing that they included here. John, when my children are watching Squid Game, they're going to get influence.

Starting point is 00:07:51 They're going to become trans on the spot. And now that begs a bigger question. why am I letting my children watch You know, I want to let my children watch violence Without some hidden agenda That I'm ignoring when it comes to, you know, society and, you know, money But this agenda, I don't like this particular agenda Because I can see it and it's obvious

Starting point is 00:08:14 No, no All right, well, might not if I step up. Please jump in. There's plenty more to talk about Thanos. I love Thanos. He's my boy. Thanos is right. Yeah, it's like the, I forget what the writer's name is,

Starting point is 00:08:32 but it's like he spent the last couple of years going, why else would people be broke? Yep. What are some other reasons people would be broken today's world? And what are some reasons that aren't just I couldn't stop? Yeah, exactly, yeah. I think they found a lot of different nuances to what that could lead to. It's still primarily that.

Starting point is 00:08:53 Yeah, but at least you get, oh, I'm here. to try and help my family member or yeah my i yeah i thought that was really heartbreaking and kind of beautiful that whole like i got to be liberated and and live as myself and i lost everything in the process and am covered in debt now yeah exactly so i think they they've done a really good job constructing um different elements because again you tread territory automatically of like hey this can feel repetitive it automatically opens up the door to have a comparison i like I like those tweaks and adjustments they've made

Starting point is 00:09:28 because you have like these in the last season it was like all right you're focusing on like three people no four people god damn it five people Guyon's team yeah they had one team now they have this whole other team of people with different sets of circumstances

Starting point is 00:09:44 who you're not really seeing interact with like Gehan on the Yan side which is a completely separate team which maybe will they will interstate at some point in a more direct way and I like that of because it kind of begs the question of like sometimes you have if you are in a position like this maybe you do have like no other choice or when you feel like that I'm not saying you they do when you position people to feel like you have

Starting point is 00:10:11 no other choice but to go down this route it makes for a compelling debate and beyond everything that you were just talking about which I do agree with they've been making these choices that just keep surprising me you know when it came to the debate time of like using the motif of they all vote now every single time versus it has to be a majority vote if they want to vote because they drive home again the theme of of the debate between gihon and character Inho Inho Between Gihon and Inho

Starting point is 00:10:50 Of, hey, you know Once people change Then the games will change What the games exist Because people don't change So to have the choice of red pill Blue pill every single time And getting hit with a dose of reality

Starting point is 00:11:04 Every single time Does drive home that debate And theme even more Of what they're going after But eventually They're going to see The prisoners Are not going to detonate the bomb

Starting point is 00:11:16 on that boat and the Joker loses. That's right. Millions of people are willing to believe it again. Yeah, so they, I don't know how it's going to end. I really don't. And I like that so much

Starting point is 00:11:34 because whenever it feels like we're going down familiarity territory, they just completely take a different turn and they're doing that so much with Inho. I was so surprised when he is the one who spoke up because it seems to be the end.

Starting point is 00:11:49 It's like the guy who wears the mask is a totally different person and the guy who's not wearing the mask and the part that seems compelling is it doesn't seem like he's, let me push some buttons and make some points right now. It seems like he's come from a genuine place

Starting point is 00:12:02 or he's channeling his former self or some shit. Like I don't fully know what he's doing. And I love that. Yeah. I love that. That we probably won't really know what's going on with him

Starting point is 00:12:13 until we're at the final stage because it really seems like this might be a predictable avenue of why he would thrust himself into the game to kind of like twist the knife and mess with Gihun a little bit more and then it seems like that he is thrust into that from

Starting point is 00:12:29 almost dying himself like a botching the game or maybe that was intentional or not I don't know maybe it was a big con game but I like that kind of fun and games that they're doing with the audience again but like oh we're going to have number one be here now that we know who number one is let's really confuse the audience

Starting point is 00:12:44 on what he's doing on why he's behaving this way or why he's making certain choices that you might not expect where he seems to be going down the Gihun set of beliefs and the Gihun is questioning if he should have the beliefs of the captain of Hino. I think

Starting point is 00:13:00 it's so smart. Yet I'm like but is this sincere of what he's doing? Do I just buy it? Yeah. Is it a combination of it all or is it an act? I don't know. know and we don't know but that's part of the fun of the journey that I think they're doing

Starting point is 00:13:19 whilst um having like some really good heart-to-heart moments like the conversation that guihan has with his friend of kind of going back to who he was before yeah finding the humanity before he became like stoic action hero badass guy with a lot of money who just fills it out left and right for his own Bruce Wayne shit yeah yeah well and two I really love the performance uh uh the Inho performance because He's the best one character Yeah, no And I mean

Starting point is 00:13:48 It's my personal Him and the old mom Yeah The old mom The old mom is yeah It's like She captures your heart And she's fun to watch

Starting point is 00:13:59 And like she brings a genuine Spark of joy Whereas Inho Like the subtlety Like when he's being The player When he's being zero one Like he has a very

Starting point is 00:14:10 Kind of genuine He's not like the most animated guy but he has a very genuine quality and then they keep cutting to these little moments where he's observing Gihun and like there's super subtle it's not like he's standing there going

Starting point is 00:14:24 wah ha ha you know it seems like he really is kind of studying this guy from a genuine place of at least kind of interest but like he and not even necessarily respect there's there's something there of like yeah he seems to recognize the you know

Starting point is 00:14:43 conviction that Gihun has and he is kind of like joining it's like there is this thing happening where it's just the two of them having this conversation in the most protracted way across all of this and I feel like every little time

Starting point is 00:14:59 that they show just those brief moments where he's calculating or he's observing like they add so much and it's great because yeah at this moment you don't really know exactly what he's thinking or what the motivation is and he does seem to be playing his role and there's a little part of that where you're like I can kind of see how in entering the game he is sort of

Starting point is 00:15:18 embracing and accepting like yeah I'm just going to leave it up to the game and it does absolutely make you wonder like was that thing with the top genuine like was he really just in the heat of the moment and screwing it up and like really getting upset at himself seemed like he was and then that little thing at the end you're like well he helped out gui hun and all of them to not die but also like you know somebody in his triangle over here aware of like well there's is the captain so you know we'll let this slide like you know what's the rule he pulled the foot out and got the last you know uh kick on the little you know streamer thing and i'm like i could totally see that going either way if it was anybody else you know or them being like ah no you cheated you know

Starting point is 00:15:58 um and so it's just like little flourishes and details like that you can wonder about and i'm enjoying being here in these waning moments of mystery because we're about to embark on the last two episodes so soon all will be some will be revealed anyway but yeah like this is like really top not like a real hats off to to them for how it just seems like so much planning and and conscientious consideration has gone into this particular season like this has been really well proportioned and it feels really natural coming out of what came before it and it's up to them to stick the landing but this really feels like a sequel that is worthwhile and that is really adding to what has come before i full heartedly agree john we got two more to get through we'll get there then you know no no sleep till daybreak as you want i will say episode seven get ready guys our break down let's do this two more thank you for being here and enjoy talking about every individual episode um at the end of each episode we should vote as to whether we continue the show

Starting point is 00:17:10 or stop and go outside the red button the blue button all right guys leave your thoughts down below we'll see you guys soon

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The Reel Rejects - SQUID GAME 2x05 Breakdown & Review!!!

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