The Reel Rejects - SQUID GAME Season 3, Episode 6 - Series Finale Breakdown & Review | Netflix | 오징어 게임

Starting point is 00:00:00 Thank you to Huell for sponsoring this video. More on them in just a bit. Yaddy, yaddy, yaddy, blah, blah. Let's put that all to the side and enjoy the show and then have a long discussion afterwards. Prepper, thanks for doing down these highlights. We got some stuff to talk about here. Okay, okay, where to begin? Yeah, when Gihun died, I was just in shock that it happened.

Starting point is 00:00:39 Like, my heart was like, it went, like, empty. Yeah. Because I was like, I know I can't, but I know Korean dramas are vicious. I understand that. I know what we sign up for, but I thought with, like, it being at Netflix for a new old deal, and they might soften some more. Yeah, yeah, yeah, make it. Make it satisfying to our American sensibility.

Starting point is 00:01:04 I mean, work out at the end. This is 100% going to be a divisive finale. Hondo P. And I am, there are some things that I'm like, oh, God, I need to,

Starting point is 00:01:11 I need to process some shit. So we need to, like, talk some stuff out here. Yeah, sure. Okay. How do you feel about Gihun's death right off the bat? I'm absolutely chewing on it as well

Starting point is 00:01:22 because the thing is one thing I admire about. It's an interesting show because there are times in which like a movie thing will happen or a thing that feels more like oh nick of time you know or oh these two circumstances converged in just the right kind of way and and you know that happens but a lot of the time they do just kind of take you they in my experience they'll set up a situation where you the audience member are bargaining with it and given our you know sensibility here in america you're sitting there going okay something has to come up to to fix this or to you know help our heroes skate by you know one more time but also the show will present you those moments

Starting point is 00:02:03 and then just give you the conclusion that you kind of feel like is the natural conclusion and that's an instance of that with gui hun part of me is like well i guess i guess he can't make it through or or he could but i feel like the ultimate point of what they chose makes a lot of sense because the whole idea is yeah we're not horses we're not just chasing some, you know, arbitrary thing around a track by instinct, we can at least choose within this harsh, horrific, and oppressive system, our own destiny, to some degree. And after the fight, like, I really liked at least the way they portrayed the scene.

Starting point is 00:02:44 He stands there at the edge. He looks into the abyss for a while. He sets the baby down. And then, you know, basically, literally, to me, was sort of like he's just present with his final moments on Earth. and then comes up with the message. Why have I been here after all of this? And especially at the end of season two,

Starting point is 00:03:05 going into season three, after being so demoralized and having my motivations and my philosophical bedrock kind of shaken and crushed and spat upon by this huge machine, you know, it is impactful. And I think, yeah, him kind of realizing, you know, there is no way out of this. there's nothing that's going to save me.

Starting point is 00:03:29 I just have to choose the right choice and rise above what everyone in this game is banking on, which is the idea that when the chips are down and life is on the line, you will act selfishly. And I think the more I'm just processing it right now, the more I feel like that is an appropriate conclusion for him because, you know, in America you would expect, like, okay, he's going to finally get to the very end

Starting point is 00:03:57 and then he's going to be the one to blow up the island and make it out or at least blow it up and have some kind of self-righteous thing. But it's not that, you know, and he just accepts the inevitable and realizes, you know, like, none of us are innocent, but this baby absolutely is. And, you know, to basically give that chance to the next generation to maybe have something a little bit better, I guess is kind of the point. but it is like the way it goes down it's weird like it completely negates any bargaining

Starting point is 00:04:30 you're doing in your head gives you no kind of line of like oh man he could get out of this you know my initial feelings is I don't like it that's my initial feeling because of a bunch of stupidity circumstances from the previous episode with the fighting that bitcoin landing them in and then with this fight you know like if they just had to press the button I know like neither Bitcoin or him were like you guys know by now and I get it it's down to the wire

Starting point is 00:05:05 you're not thinking straight you guys are both fraud in your heads all over the place I understand it's just like one fucking button to do that and even for Bitcoin situation like dude if you want to keep your baby you have to press the button if you were the one

Starting point is 00:05:22 and because no one pressed a button that's what it's something about it feels a little contrived to me and you know it's one thing to like I see what you mean about the the thematic side of what you're talking about

Starting point is 00:05:40 and I understand like especially the sacrifice and driving home the message of it but when you have like plot things that occur to get to message that I don't and sink well with me it kind of frustrates me so that's why it wasn't that's more just like shocked that it went that way and then you have like other things like with the uh kong new rule number 11 yeah yeah yeah you know uh she saves that guy's life and you get the wrap up there with him she gets to bring

Starting point is 00:06:17 this guy home which i guess leads to you know long finding the island and someone seems like you would have found the island though who was right there inside yeah but and then she's like burning down the evidence like but it seems like the evidence is going to burn down anyway because they're going to blow all the shit up yeah so i start like questioning so there's like things there that don't give me wrong i'm only pointing out like things that didn't quite sit well with me sure but you know like there's so much of the journey i really did enjoy still um like the fighting with with uh bitcoin and like his performance there i even like it's frustrating as he is i really like the performance that he gave yeah and when

Starting point is 00:06:57 he's like holding the baby and he doesn't know what to do when he's thrown between like greed and wants selfishness versus like the betterment in him like uh that you could feel all this like inner conflict going down so i think he gave a great performance um and then you have uh you know uh gihon it just it sucks like it really sucks i fucking hate it because it's it sucks because like you follow ghihan he's your main character he shows up in the he's the start of this season and then just amounts to him like giving up his life yeah and you know the first thing i said when he was falling was like he doesn't even get to see his child and then so to have that moment at the that's what got me

Starting point is 00:07:38 is like oh my god they are bringing it back the show didn't forget yeah totally totally i was wondering that too yeah because it's like it's a really like a character arc for geon here at the end of the day you know um sure he gets like broken down and he sticks to his code and he gets to stick it to a Inho in some way. Yeah, I feel like in, and the circumstances of the events, the

Starting point is 00:08:00 domino effects did allow for the games to be crumbled, but not really, because the games are obviously still persisting in Frick at Los Angeles. Yeah, and I mean, I guess that kind of speaks to human nature in a way. It's like they all kind of go back to doing

Starting point is 00:08:15 what they were doing, you know? No one goes back to searching, you know, uh what's his name 246 uh goes back to you know caricaturing and you know uh uh junho's buddy has already coming up with a new scheme of like oh we're gonna turn this hotel a new business oh they long just fucking all season all that june all that season the whole season all that june ho shit was was odd stretched out from two and three and then when we finally start getting momentum it's like oh that's life for you that's my bigger complaint like the show is larger than life it is a large than

Starting point is 00:09:01 life show it's a little ridiculous sure it's billionaire's playing the crazy most elaborate sets and state it's a ridiculous thing so to go for like realism at this like ah on this term like oh come on you know it kind of it does frustrate me and maybe i'll change my i'm processing i'm talking out my feelings right now. So maybe by even the end of this conversation, my feelings will change. I just got to be honest with how I'm feeling right now. And how I'm feeling right now is like it is a

Starting point is 00:09:30 letdown. That it didn't amount to much in the end. Like he walks away with the money, but I'm like, what is really the point of that though? Of like, okay, he's going to take care of two. I mean, he gets to be the father of this baby now. And he has all the money in the world. And maybe that

Starting point is 00:09:46 was in his way of saying, you want to know why I did it? It was for this. Because, like, he wanted his wife, his child, and now I get a, I get to protect the child and I provide for you, and here you go. And you of the two of us are the good-hearted one who's probably capable at this moment of time of actually raising a child properly. But there's no, like, there's no confrontation. They shared the screen for 10 seconds in season one, and now they share the screen for probably the same amount of time, sort of, this season. It's frustrating. it is like a frustrating thing and you know it's it's one of those things to me where i don't know

Starting point is 00:10:24 i don't want to talk too much i get it it's a subversion and it's not what you expect and you got to have like if you do only what you expect then it's it's it's uh dull it's not exciting you got to subvert and give the audience something they're not expecting but it has to be rewarding and sure do i expect it to go this way no do i find it rewarding not really you know i like i'm still I'm more like heartbroken for emotional beats like with the daughter like I think that's really tragic I'm glad that she gets to have his belongings and have the money because that's why he did it that's why he entered was for his mom and daughter mom died while he was gone and now he can give to his daughter yeah and they established they're living in a shitty L.A. apartment now they don't get to

Starting point is 00:11:05 anymore so yeah like that's that's cool to me I really appreciate that inho seems like a changed man as well like there's a lot of remorse and regret and so i think visually they've done a good job there these other things though that i'm having a difficult time um acclimating to right now even though i i think season three is much stronger than season two yeah no this was this was a really strong crop of episode the only like the only thing across all of this that yeah is uh is a bone to pick is the june host stuff i'd be curious to hear some other opinions on it because it does seem like the most clearly underutilized cooked. It's like on the one hand, I'm like, I don't know exactly what you would do.

Starting point is 00:11:50 But on the other hand, I don't know. I mean, we've been allotting time to this. And it feels like not a lot more than just the literal experience they're having, which is we're trying to find the island and someone's dicking us around this whole time. And he was such a cool character in the first season. And I guess, I don't know, like maybe it's some kind of statement about how like, you know, the law can't really touch this or something or like you know there's nothing effective that you know the legal means can truly do but it's weird like the actual moments in the moment where

Starting point is 00:12:25 he's breaking back in and he's shooting out the screen and the window and they have that one brief moment in the same air space together i liked that scene but i do agree that like i don't know some kind of confrontation. I'm torn on the actual thing. It's like if the story had been substantial up till this point in Juneau's involvement had felt like it was really meaty, then getting to that scene,

Starting point is 00:12:50 I could imagine not bothering me. But as it stands here after everything that his storyline hasn't quite amounted to, then to have it be that ending button, you know, is a little, yeah, then disappointing in a separate way. Because we haven't really spent like a big journey, with him like we've been around with him and there have been some twists and turns but like we haven't

Starting point is 00:13:13 been viscerally in his shoes for some crucial part of this yeah it seems like a lot of stuff that happens by the end was gonna happen anyway and the only real reason to get him back to the island is just so that they can have that brief moment of confrontation and then he gets right back out of there so yeah it's the one part of the show it's like anything else that I think we're sitting here in this moment kind of processing and being like I don't know if I like that or maybe I do it's the one part of the show that doesn't feel as like finally tuned and cooked as everything else does and it is sort of like a it makes it stand out in your mind because you're like this is so strange clearly the writers and and you know the writer director of the show is capable of elevating any and all plot lines so why not this one or is this what they wanted and i just don't get it yes the thing is like i'm all for mean sad tragic endings but it has to feel somehow of uh a sarcasmus isn't the right word it just it hasn't

Starting point is 00:14:14 it can't just be mean and sad for mean and sad sake and that's kind of how I feel with some of these choices is just mean and sad to be mean and sad a bit yeah it's like you can get catharsis out of something like that when you know like damn though that that is how the world works and sometimes the world is

Starting point is 00:14:30 bleak and like with he hun I can kind of see that where I'm like well you can't really change a system like this as one person confined to its rules that, you know, will change to benefit the system at any moment. So all you can really do is, like, you know, authentically reject it and make every morally upstanding choice that you can in whatever situation you immediately find yourself in. And that's all you can rely on. And I appreciate what that is saying as much as you want it to be like,

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Starting point is 00:17:08 like the explosive ending and while it does feel like an appropriate place to stop doing korean squid game it does feel like the continuum of this continues you know it wages on yeah um well the it's not conclusive that way uh yeah yeah the uh okay sorry there's this ant here that appeared and it uh really distracted the hell me for more reasons that I will let you guys know oh I've got some aunt hotels to lay down yeah okay um anyway the okay what which was okay so they did the six month later time jump yeah now number 11 I like that she found a semblance of contentment you know like uh there's a acceptance to everything like she didn't get to save her daughter but she gets to save this guy and this girl you know and she does seem like at

Starting point is 00:18:14 peace fact if anyone it seems like they actually had an arc it was her and yeah junho i don't know is like i guess they're trying to say too that somehow he because he seems like at peace too you know he doesn't seem like obsessed guy anymore with his brother he seems like he's just let it all go you know brother made his choices and and you should just live your own life i guess and then yeah he behind isn't so much an arc as it is like a complete deconstruction demolishing of his motivation and then resolidification of set motivation yeah yeah and and uh yeah so i mean and then we like i'm actually not bothered with i feel like some people will be bothered i don't mind that we don't know if her daughter's alive or not because it seems like she was on uh feeling more happy and and and like you kind of end on a hopeful note yeah there so it seems like her daughter's alive yeah i'd like to believe in It seems like they're laying the audience choose whether or not she's alive, even though a lot of science point to that she is. And so I like that it ends on a hopeful note for her.

Starting point is 00:19:15 Why does she get the hopeful note? She was like the sniper person. Sniping people. Sure, she saves these two people. She's like sniping down. Anyway. She's the most, I think. She's a great actor, though.

Starting point is 00:19:27 I thought she was really great to watch. Well, and an interesting plot, too, because I feel like of all the characters and all the plot lines, From an intentional standpoint, you know, Noel's story feels the most like it's letting you feel and interpret rather than telling you much. You get the details of her life, but she's doing a lot that feels like kind of spontaneously motivated or out of a place of being lost and desperate and, you know, trying to, it's weird. It's like she comes in and she does like act against the system and moves through it, but she's not. even completely just doing that and she's helping at least this one guy who she recognizes from the outside who has you know some kind of you know connections similar to the one that she is grieving

Starting point is 00:20:20 and and desperately attempting to find her way back to uh and there's a lot of i think it's the plotline i'm most curious to revisit the show for in terms of like re-experiencing and like extrapolating more out of it because there are times where you're watching her throughout the show and you're sort of like watching a person behave and make choices rather than you're like, I'm on a linear plot motivation or something like

Starting point is 00:20:47 that. Which I think is very interesting and I think in her case is a more it's one of those things that feels intentional so I'm willing to embrace it for right now in that way of like I feel like this of all plot lines is not meant to be as like in your face

Starting point is 00:21:04 linear clearly cut yeah um and i like that it has placed for that and yeah her performance is terrific and yeah even though she's not like sunshine at the end there it is a change that has set in and that you feel and you feel like yeah in in being somebody who has escaped from you know a cutoff part of the world that has its own rules forced upon people i could see how just finding your place into your way into another similar apparatus and just wreaking havoc in side that apparatus in order to damage it, you know, in a in a transitory way, you know, soothes that motivation. Yeah. And she's taking, yeah, this military training she's been subject to and she's turning it around on, you know, a system of oppression. Yeah. So yeah,

Starting point is 00:21:53 I mean, I really appreciate that of all the characters to be rewarded, you know, she in some ways has had a particularly harsh road journey backstory and i'm you know i am soothed to know she makes it and has the actual hope at the end even though you know she's one of the characters in the show we've spent less time with yeah i think um now that we've talked about a little bit more i i think part of what the gui hun's death i think does though affect is it clearly changes in ho and whatever that might be clearly still working for them working with them but you can see that he's a change band

Starting point is 00:22:33 in some way there seems at least to be doubts and regrets chewing on everything he thought he had decided up till now yeah yeah because he was trying to shape gie hun to be like him and go down the path he went and he couldn't do that and now he seems like

Starting point is 00:22:49 truly affected by that even when he's looking at them playing the games you can see he's kind of like in conflict about it yeah and it's also a cool mirror to gie huns ending note in season one when Guy Hunt sees that happening so I get the mirroring

Starting point is 00:23:05 yeah like well in two season one ending with a player going you know what I I have not earned my life coming out of here I'm going to accept the end for myself and then in this way it's him alone accepting accepting and sacrificing

Starting point is 00:23:21 himself in not the same way Sang Wu did but in a way that I think echoes off of that at least yeah yeah yeah and so i there's like aspects for sure that i i i am starting to that are starting to grow on me in terms of like intentionality of what they were going for and the season overall has like the the the theme of greed is obviously a big part of squid game and they like quadruple down on it in this one and watching right down to the final squid game um how it the greed just blinds you

Starting point is 00:23:56 makes stupid choices too along the way you know and and and and and and then even ending on this thing where you can't it seems like it's impossible to defeat the system and that even with people who are trying to defeat the system like junho he'll still accept the money when it comes his way you know yeah yeah yeah things like that so I like some of the conflict about it you know it's at least it's it's a debate and is it the debate and the conversation, the one that we will certainly be like, all right, cool. But like how the show ends with a lot of ambiguity and who, which path do we go, even with, you know, like, what will he do with the money? Will he accept it, you know?

Starting point is 00:24:45 That is how I think we end our review is, I don't, I'm not 100% sure where I feel in a lot of this. There are things I'm like, ooh, I am not a fan of that right now. and there are things i am a fan of and uh i've explained all my gray areas of it but uh it's in term to be like definitely this definitely that much like the ending of this whole finale episode of definitely not definitely there's no definance in a lot of ways you know i i kind of feel like that i do think it still could have been a little bit stronger and some there think there are some contrivances but you know i'm trying to see the intentionality here and I still like the season a lot overall.

Starting point is 00:25:28 I still prefer it over season two. Yeah. And I think it's a great. I think it elevates season two. And the episodes one through five, we gave like pretty much like 98% like ratio, like review on that. So that's where we're at right now. But in terms of the finale, I will end it on, I can just say, I want to give like a finite answer. But I truthfully don't have one.

Starting point is 00:25:55 Sometimes we don't. some shit that i just i'm currently in this moment don't like and maybe upon reflecting i'll be like oh you know what now that i figured that i should have said this that's the thing when you do reaction reviews you know you don't get time to drive home or wait a while and make notes discuss it with a few other people yeah see what everyone else is saying formulate your thoughts yeah yeah yeah yeah well and it's a good reminder that uh every opinion about art especially is always an alive ever-changing thing and you're not necessarily supposed to know

Starting point is 00:26:26 100% of your feelings the second of thing ends and I'm okay with that. What else about you? Want to say any last words for Squid Game? Man, this has been, yeah, there's definitely stuff to chew on.

Starting point is 00:26:39 There's stuff that I'm curious to see how I will process over the coming days now that we're done, but there was so much across all of this from seasons one to three that have been very masterful and very striking, very sometimes fun and twisted, sometimes impacted.

Starting point is 00:26:56 and, you know, contemplative and sometimes very harsh, and it's been quite a ride, and even though I'm still assessing what level of catharsis I feel, I definitely feel some kind of catharsis from having gone through all of this and some kind of, you know,

Starting point is 00:27:12 impact from the questions the show wants to ask. So, yeah, and I do appreciate... I feel a catharsis that we completed a midnight shoot. Kind of, yeah. Yeah, exactly, exactly. That catharsis of just like, we've gone through a marathon and where we are but yeah you know this has been substantial there's been a lot of great work and i do value and and cherish the time that we have spent and

Starting point is 00:27:36 you know i admire what they've achieved and i like that there is a bit of strange orneryness at the very end with the whole tildes win thing uh or cape blanche or now and now it's going to become the thing it was commentating on the spin house yeah netflix is going to go i don't we I'll turn more money out of this. What was it called Squid Game, the competition? Squid Game, LA, baby. Let's go. Squid game, New York, Squid Game, London.

Starting point is 00:28:04 Squid game, friggin, where else in the world? Jaipoor, Squid Game, Jakarta, Squid Game, Columbia. American Games would there be? Oh, man. Let's see. Baseball. American football. It's a pretty much of sports.

Starting point is 00:28:19 It's golf. Yeah, golf. American Kid Games, though. You know, Cornhole. I mean, they do play those games as a kid. Hopscotch. There's the one with the, you jump under the triangle, the square, square, foo, boop, too, do you, the handball. One of those, like, you know, the clappy games that, you know, comes with like a nursery rhyme, yeah.

Starting point is 00:28:43 It's going to be some great television. Doing this thing. Yeah. Thumbs up. Heads up seven. I declare a thumb war. Uh-huh. Oh, Thumbore, definitely is a great game.

Starting point is 00:28:54 Yeah. You have a thumb more, but with tacks at the ends of your fingers, at the ends of your thumbs. I can't wait. I can't wait for L.A. Squid Game. Yeah, it's going to be a good one, man. It's going to be great. Anyway, guys, thank you for joining us on this journey. Thanks for letting us, be honest, and leave your honest thoughts down below.

Starting point is 00:29:13 Like it, hate it. What didn't you like? What did you like? Please, just be honest. It's all we asked for. It's all we asked for. All right, guys. Well, we'll see you soon, Reject Nation.

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