Netflix South Korea’s "Squid Game" is an absolutely wild ride!
It's exhilarating, and I feel like I'm on the edge of my seat guessing as to what's going to happen. I'm only two episodes in, and honestly, I'm sort of blown away enough to record the swell and let you all know about it. Squid Game is a show where 456 people, they're all struggling financially in life. They're invited to play this mysterious game that ends up being a survival competition
So even when he wins the horse race thing, he ends up losing the money to the pickpocket and then getting chased by the loan Sharks and all that. So it just makes me wish anyway, that he would, I guess, turn away from the gambling lifestyle altogether. The last thing I'll say, particularly after the second episode, is that the whole notion of free will, I think, is an interesting twist on this show
Hey, Robin, good to hear from you. Yes, I finished the show. I quite enjoyed it. I really did. And I don't want to get into spoilers, obviously, because I know that you're still in it. But one thing that you really reminded me of when I was listening to you is an element of the show that I really feel makes it stand out from a lot of other shows I've seen lately
Anyways, I look forward to talking to you about it. Once you're done, I think there are a few different ways that I see the show going, so we'll just have to wait and see. I'm excited. I know that there were some mixed feelings about the way that that the season ended. But honestly, at this point, that's the way that every show is anyways, talk to you soon. Bye
Of course, I guess it's a little bit different in Hunger Games, since in that case, the children are expected to directly do combat with each other and to the death. Whereas so far in Squid Game, that hasn't been the case, it's just been a matter of surviving what the quote game makers throw at them. But all in all, I guess one could argue that the adult twist in Squid Game is that these characters are so desperate that they're willing to face death