The Reel Rejects - SQUID GAME Season 3, Episode 5 Breakdown & Review | Netflix | 오징어 게임

Episode Date: June 27, 2025

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to us on taformatio.ca. i don't want to talk for too long i look glad we could dedicate most of the time to this wonder what surprise they're there to come prepper thanks for writing down these highlights please leave a like on this video as well john please take it away your thoughts please yeah this was uh this was very tense and and fun is not quite the right word but you know i uh i was enjoying the intensity and uh i was hoping

hoping against hope that it wouldn't come to this. But at the same time, you know, they have to orchestrate an impossible feeling circumstance. And obviously our biggest allegiances are to Gihun. And then the baby. And then Bitcoin, a distant third. But, you know, without anybody else to move on to, I feel the conflict.

I'm like, damn, I was rooting for the both of you guys. There was a way that this could have worked out. And, yeah, just the ever-looming figure of how big the pot has grown is always, you know, a variable that's going to whip up the worst in people. These guys are also very fast at doing math to figure out how much they'll get. But yeah, this was...

I like this sort of elevation of the squid game itself. We're going to play... It would seem weird if they didn't play a version of the actual squid game and then to give it this additional, you know, high elevation. They really like their high elevation. You're going to fall and die kind of. of stunts in the show.

But yeah, I mean, this was very fun and enjoyable. I feel like yeah, I kind of agree with some of your assessment here that like damn, it's a part of this character's psyche to wind us up in this place, but also like, damn, we could have gone across with

like excess people. Yeah. Yeah, which is like maddening and frustrating. And now, you know, I think it's an interesting soup to go into this final episode with. and a very different feeling set of circumstances even though we're in a similar game to the last one and neither of these guys seem like they're apt to make a choice like Sang Wu did in the end of the first season

so you know very interested how are you feeling right now I'm feeling good I love this show I think it's just damn good television I like what I'm loving the characters I like when I think characters are stupid I like when I'm hating them. I like it all around. So, I mean, it might be, I debate with me.

Sure. I don't give a shit. Go in the comments and you're like, there's what you're wrong about Bitcoin or whatever. You can never put it to every. But yeah, I thought this was a really fun way to go about it. It's interesting that like I love this stage. I love the production of what they did.

Like, oh, we're going to go. The show is kind of, I think some of the, the commentary is it seems to be a bit of a media commentary like let's go bigger let's go bigger let's go bigger bigger bigger and like they just go like obnoxiously big with the with the with the shapes here with that don't really factor in other than you got to stay on the shape yeah so they're not they're not really playing the squid game they're not really playing a kid's game again um then it's but what they are doing is the like but i feel like this season combined with two is is uh the manipulation of the Democratic vote of how that has been a consistency in like so much of the episodes of how

the players have to vote and then even with this final squid game it comes right back down to the voting and the internal voting during the game and the debating that's happening it's it's exciting it's fun do i wish i got to know some of these characters a little bit better on the journey like we know like 10 billion dollar man and and then like the alpha guy who he hun stabbed he he uses a certain type of like beaty energy and the other dudes, you know, like I see the art types and I think the actors are really good. I do kind of wish we got to like spend a little bit of time

getting to know them the way how we did in season one. That way when you get to these moments, it really feels like compelling on the character side because I'm here as like, I'm a little bit more of like the sick billionaires when I'm watching this now. Just like, yeah, get him off. Yeah, yeah, you're playing the numbers game. Min's too. Get rid of him.

You know, it's a big sense to me to do it. And, yeah, because, like, of course, I'm really connected to Gihon. But that being said, I still thought this was a really, um, uh, exhilarating time. It really was like a ton of fun. And the, uh, I do think Bitcoin like, uh, revealed too much. He didn't have to reveal all that. Like, he could have just pushed him off, got to the next one. And then, you know, by all means he could have, uh, still pushed off play it for it.

He didn't have to kill him, $10 billion man. Yeah. There's like, he was playing it so well. and then he got carried away there at the very end and uh that that seems to be this guy's life story so and that seems set up from how we got into the squid games to begin with so it still makes sense character wise or why he would do it even though i'm here being like you fucking idiot it still lines up with who he is as a character yeah um and yeah some of these deaths though do feel a little bit like because you were saying it when mince who was about to die i'm like no that's just kind of it for that character like they really um gave this sort of like ghostly drawn out death to me minceu and like dramatic size slow motion and then 10 billion dollar man even kind of wanting to see die this whole time even though it is just like a fall of die that's how they're all dying there's something that feels like a little bit hurt about it a little bit erupt in the way it was like cut together but it's still happy to see him go and and and uh and i like how it's tying together with uh player 246 out on the waters the detective finding them i'm like okay cool uh is that way we set up this plot so we could do that really cool. And even with 11 on the other side in the pink suit, I thought that was a really engaging action-driven moment,

you know, and her chance at redemption. There's a lot of, like, moving pieces here, and there's one episode left, and I do feel like they can wrap it all up. Versus a lot of times when you get to certain season finales of shows or series finalees of shows, you're like, I don't know how they're going to wrap this all up. And then normally when you say that, you're like,

yeah, they didn't need more time to wrap it up. But I do feel like they can actually wrap it up. and a nice bow obviously the final episode it's going to be like the brothers i imagine like the first few minutes of the next episode will be wrapping up this game the conclusion and then the rest will be about the brothers the brothers in 11 yeah i feel like 11 will be fine so like get away or something yeah i'm interested to see how that in particular kind of wraps up just as it is like the the major c plot essentially or i guess you can call it more proportionally i guess it's the B-plot for how little Junho has been spotlit throughout the second chunk of the show,

two and three. And then the brother, Wongho, is that his name? Oh, Inho. Inho, sorry, Inho. Inho. I thought the early flashback, too, of picking up on the idea, they still keep like a mystery to him. You want to keep a mystery to the front man.

And they do still, like, getting a little bit of the flashback, showing that he was getting the same offer that, uh, mom offered him and that Gihon keeps making the different choices and the the converse because I imagine there would be people who are watching this going why didn't he just kill them in their sleep if he was going to like participate anyway

and end up killing them or participate in killing some of them but he's about what's fair and not you know it's part of his character to do that so it makes sense like he still played the game and he didn't just take this cheat cheat cheat you know you can always

feel him processing the way of like, yes, I could save my skin or yes, you can see him grappling with the logic that Inho gives him and then, yeah, like really, really choosing. Like, I always feel in the performance

like, you know, yeah, you're really watching the emotional roller coaster of like a guy who's had all of his convictions warped and shaken by this entire, by the first experience, and the second experience. Yeah, for sure. And he has every reason to resign.

and I am fascinated by the way that I got to remember the actor's name again, but he's so compelling to watch and with so little dialogue, he always feels so present and as if he has been speaking this whole time. And yeah, you really feel the nature of his decision-making process and feeling like that, yeah, you would have every right to make a selfish or a more cut-throat decision. And yet remember why you're here, remember what you're here to do. And even if there's no grand plan or big map anymore,

I guess it just comes down to make the next right decision, make the next humane choice, you know, just one at a time. And in a way, that's, yeah, like a nice mirror to life. It's like, yeah, you want to have this big ideological plan, but sometimes you just have to choose the next right choice. And two, you know, this whole, I think, you know, you pointed out something nice with the, yeah, the warping of the democratic process where this unfair and cruel and, you know, life-threatening. system is literally presenting you with like, no, it's fine. You're in control. You get to vote over your own slaughter. And then like the way that them inside of that, you know, then do like their own microversion. And yeah, just like watching this little microcosm of like these people try to be like, no, no, no, we're doing everything fair. Even though they're, Gihun and Minsu, they're like

right here. Like, they can tell that you're probably not actually doing this in a way that is truly honestly fair and in everyone's best interest. And, you know, that's, It's a nice mirror to various facets of society. Absolutely. And I thought it was directed really well, too. The composition of how it was all orchestrated. I didn't really notice the green screen that much. I actually lost sight of the fact that there's a lot of green screen involved in.

Or maybe I'm wrong. There were times where it looked like people were kind of keyed in. You could see some of the seams that maybe you notice or don't notice. But I thought it looked really cool. I mean, it would be kind of a ridiculous order to be like, I wish they just built this, like, giant-ass. Billionaires are cheesy and contribute nothing in their dialogue. And I enjoy that, I guess.

It just kind of pulls me out a little bit because I'm just so aware of just like how badly written it is. But it's like, it's so bad. It's got to be in touch. It feels so bad. It feels like when you're watching a serious anime that has that one subplot for kids. Yeah. Is how it feels. A little bit.

A little bit. And also the music, too. The music's been, like, fucking killer this whole season. And I loved how this one really doubled down on that sort of, like, drum, tribalistic one when you're seeing how, like, savage they're being with human lives. And even the way they negotiate, be like, there's nothing, this baby doesn't have the future. Like, every time, it's a fucking baby. Like, yeah, this baby has the best opportunity for a future of all of you. Or like, oh, just die.

Just let yourself die. We voted. You know, we're like, yeah. That's fine. We're good. This is for you. This somehow benefits you, too. Yeah, this was a great episode.

I really enjoyed it. I thought this was a lot of fun. I had a lot of fun. and I can't wait to see how this series ends. What did you guys think? Leave your thoughts down below. I can't wait to see you for the finale. We'll talk with you soon, Reject Nation.

Peace out.