The Reel Rejects - SQUID GAME 2x06 Breakdown & Review!!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:33 And, hey, John, I'm good. Let's go, John. Let's do it. I mean, he had it come. Oh, God. I said I would be sad. Oh, God. But, you know, in that context, he had to come.

Starting point is 00:01:50 Wild. Yeah. Yep. Oh, boy. Yep, yep, yep. that's unfortunate yeah thank god yeah i'd rather him die i don't like him yeah but i mean you know once you once you narrow it down and you're in your last remaining like you know basically you're down to all the people you like yeah now i'll lose thanos it's fine all right guys well

Starting point is 00:02:14 we're at the penultimate here we're only going to talk for a couple minutes because we got one more banger to get through no mas john please share your thoughts i'll listen oh i you know that how are they going to wrap this up in one episode we will find out but uh yeah i'm just you know i'm sitting here i'm just anxious to get to the next one i thought this was solid certainly it's a very simple episode out of all of them i think it's the most simple in a way because you have the intensity of the merry go round game and you can see what they're doing they want to get this down to an even hundred especially to kind of mess with the vote and all that stuff uh definitely you have to go back and check the tape on on who got shot in

Starting point is 00:02:55 Yeah, who was that? Yeah, I guess I'm not forgetting a name or something. Yeah, or like some stray piece of context. But yeah, you go from that. This is good. This is the power of reactions. You're forced to be in. When you're forced to be in.

Starting point is 00:03:12 Everyone's going to notice. Yeah, yeah. You just got to own it now. And then, yeah, you know, coming down to, I thought they drew some good suspense out of this. I like the inclusion of the little seed of doubt in terms of young. slash inho uh zero one uh choking that guy out and the debates with the other guy too about you know if you hadn't uh shong sue i don't remember the connection with this guy oh yeah we got to go back i barely remember who this guy is yeah uh either way yeah having those little stray bits of like

Starting point is 00:03:45 well you know something uh that certainly works against our allegiances and and you know is really upsetting in the moment like you can't deny what that one dude's what what 333 said basically like you all would have died if i hadn't come in here and even though you think you could have saved her you probably wouldn't have you would have wound up short either way i think that's interesting bringing out again the question marks around uh inho and watching the gears turn and i think that's that's part of it is like part of me thinks that if they would have definitely won by a vote he would have done basically whatever lead to the tie at bare

Starting point is 00:04:27 minimum. And so I think that's another nice little dangling thread of like, oh, I don't know what to make this guy even still, because the circumstances allow for enough vague, you know, question, you know, yeah, it's foggy enough that,

Starting point is 00:04:43 you know, the mystery remains until this final episode. So, yeah, now it's just on how many people going to get shanked, what does that do in the numbers, and how much more money do each of them add to the pot? yeah uh yeah so rip thanos but uh what do you think i think

Starting point is 00:05:02 that this is a good game because i like what would i find cool about the way the games are being done because i have i have an inkling that i'm probably going to walk away personally being like season one is more complete but it's like season one is it was a season of television that the writer-director spent

Starting point is 00:05:28 like years developing and then he gets Greenland for season two is like all right I'll make a season too you know so it just makes more sense it's the introduction but there's something about the game that that really stood out to me this time especially on my rewatch of the first

Starting point is 00:05:44 season is that in the first season you really only kind of care about like four people really making it all the way through three to four like after all gone and nilnams gone in episode six you just care about like three people and they're the three who make it to the end right yeah and here i'm like i find myself going no wait please no i'm not he's like different other people a lot more characters you're endeared to where and the

Starting point is 00:06:09 thing about those three that you want to make through you kind of have a sneaking suspicion they're going to make it through to the end because they're the three main characters yeah and then of course the three main characters the ones make to the end and that's not a criticism i love that season i think it's pretty much a perfect season of television and that was one of the fun parts about watching this merry-go-round game was oh man I'm like the tugging of like random people and some people who I'm like maybe we didn't get to know them as well as like we may have got another like season one with the time spent but I still like please don't please God oh god no no and a lot of that has to do with the variations of relationship dynamics because you have like one set here where there's

Starting point is 00:06:47 a boy a lot of these people actually kind of know each other and that's part of the fun of the media uh angle but then beyond that's like you got the mother and son and you have um you know a strange boyfriend girlfriend dynamic relationship and you got an enemy from like rapper to youtube or uh so you have these different dynamics that really create a different type of engagement yeah and ghewn's buddy yeah yeah exactly you guys with the marine connection even though they don't know each other they still have a familial thing because that yeah and they create these like fascinating moments of conflict and this this this debate though of um what i will say is like outside of thanos so i find to be a very funny performer i think the quote unquote villainous sides of the or attack more

Starting point is 00:07:31 antagonistic sides mainly the people who just really want to stay on the oh side of the things i do find to be a little bit more one note than last season yeah that 100 guy is just like the worst trademark yeah the worst or they even like the freaking shaman lady yeah whereas you in the you know like season when you had like duck sue or whatever that guy's name was a snake tattoo guy who was like totally ruthless and despicable and but like and then though lady with the who was always like trying to con and all the time yeah yeah manipulator and everything yeah yeah a little more flesh on those bones yeah sure sure um but at same time it is a different season and it is a different type of story that they are telling I am a little curious though as we are in our penultimate and now we're going to the finale of okay well they really stick to the landing with some because you have like 11 who I thought was a very fascinating setup and we don't really spend that much time with her you got this whole organ plot line uh I think the mom and Inho are the two most fascinating characters in this season

Starting point is 00:08:34 particular and uh yeah I mean there's like stuff to look for it of course it's like rather just wait and see how it unfolds I still find it to be an incredibly entertaining season of television like I could already see some of the things that like okay yeah this could have been a little bit stronger this could have been a little bit more elevated but in terms of like I'm like watching this going

Starting point is 00:08:57 I don't know this is going to end but fucking give you squeeze game season three I want more this is just so it is just such a fun show to watch it is like a bleak at show yeah but it doesn't pace itself in a bleak way it is just such a fun show in spite of like the darkness

Starting point is 00:09:15 of it it does a good job of embodying the the yo-yo that they keep experiencing of like when you're in the games it's like terror and then for brief moments because they're children's games you'll have like the kind of like oh we're doing good there's like a joy that comes out and then you you return to the you know the quarters or the you know you get out of the game scenario and then you can kind of breathe for a minute and yeah it does kind of take you in terms of intensity as an audience member on a similar ride that I think yes is I think there's a great way to put that it's not It's super bleak in context, but not in pacing. And that's a really tough balancing act, I think, to pull off. Because there are moments in this show where I have, like, just caught myself thinking, like, this is so incredibly sad and demoralizing. And you can't help in various situations, like, put yourself into these people's shoes. And, yeah, like, hats off for kind of making a season that is, like, in a way, like we said in the last one, I think, like, somehow feels like there's more kind of, like, cheeky, ornery fun happening

Starting point is 00:10:15 from behind the camera, even though there is so much heft and nastiness. And I do think, regardless of how the landing sticks, I think up till this point, they have at least earned the mantle of living up to, again, it all

Starting point is 00:10:31 depend on how it ends and concludes and how strong that is. But at least up till this point, it feels like they really put in the work to, even though I'm sure he didn't have as much time, it seems like the creator here really use the time he had to really think this out and it feels pretty

Starting point is 00:10:47 well thought out even despite the elements that may be missing or different and here in this moment I'm like let's see how this plays out to the end because maybe those elements will be justified in a different way when everything is set but I am sitting here going this definitely doesn't feel like a season that

Starting point is 00:11:03 will conclude the story whereas the first season it's like yeah even if you never followed Gihun after the end it would still feel like complete somehow you know so I wonder what element of complete this will feel or not because you know Netflix you know the whole point is like leave them

Starting point is 00:11:19 leave them more more leave one more leave one on that cliffhanger I feel like I read somewhere that there's a season two and three I'm not sure I kind of stay more away from shit like that because I'm always afraid of getting spoiled yeah so I but I feel like there's supposed to be a two and three

Starting point is 00:11:35 I saw some headline about the actor plays Gihon and it was like this guy comments on season two and if there will be a season three and I was like nope I don't even want to know what he said I don't even want to know because I know anytime a show continues people are going to be like season three. So yeah

Starting point is 00:11:51 I don't want to know until we're done in another hour's time. Yeah and then of course because there's a lot of things that I do want to talk about. I'm like long kindness and like some threads here there's stuff that in terms of I feel like I'm already here

Starting point is 00:12:07 going I feel like you need a season three assuming if Gihon lives. I feel like you need a season three. There's kill him and it's done if he's dead and I'm like well shit you know um uh but as as far as this episode went yeah i think like the a lot of the new characters are still great the the implementation of the debate of the x and o consistently happening is a really strong force and the tension of what is in ho really doing does he have some type of bigger plan the elements that i'm really hoping they they land and is the final episode with uh junho

Starting point is 00:12:44 because I loved him in the first season as the detective unpacking all this it was always very intense when you were cutting to him as he had to like play along and try to improv the whole time because he didn't know what he was getting into and it really seemed like we were getting into something that might be like even more personal and more of his season and more character development

Starting point is 00:13:06 and then it after they felt for the bait it's just been like meandering and the same shit and so that's been that has been a bit of a little let down and in terms of the journey though but i could have a completely different opinion by the time the next episode ends part of me expects a saw ending where they could kill off guiho and just put junho in the game and like see what happens after that because something's got to be up with their search here like something must i i trust the show enough to assume that something will come of all this and we won't just end the show this season think of the fisherman guys as a bad guy i think he's

Starting point is 00:13:44 done on it he's got to be and uh and i mean as much as i have joked this is just a personal thing and i will not hold it against the show if they don't i i would like them to acknowledge the vipes we don't have to have them but i think like it was such a distinct weird element of the first season that like it would be nice to at least like you pay some lip service to like why they're not here anyway or just acknowledge like because this game seems much more in isolation than before and maybe it's just like they don't feel the need to cut to that but like there's no acknowledgement of that whatsoever sure and uh it would be nice it would be nice it would be nice but you never know john they might show back up but guys keep a look out we got one more to get

Starting point is 00:14:26 through appreciate you for being on us on us journey you know i meant to say all right bye

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The Reel Rejects - SQUID GAME 2x06 Breakdown & Review!!!!

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