Season 2 confirmed:
It seems like the games themselves as a narrative are played out. But there’s potential in exploring the organization that is running them.
I think so too. I think the winner will turn around and hunt down the organization. I also expect the police officer is alive and they’ll team up.
Only thing I’d say was this was very much an ensemble piece with 7 or 8 main characters along with 456. Since all the other main characters have been killed off except 456 I’m not sure how they would continue to tell the story. Screen chemistry was vital for this series in my opinion.
I figure there will be new contestants (since a year has passed), some of whom will be sympathetic, some of whom will be jerks, and maybe 456 will work with one of them. It would be funny if he runs across a new 456 (since every year they get more contestants).
Surely he gets to keep his jersey number for the next season. /s
Well, the old man 001 did.
I imagine it will be the same basic structure as the first season, but with 456 as the person attacking the organization from the outside instead of hapless police detective. We’ll meet a new slate of desperate people and end up rooting for them along with the rich assholes. If they do a Hunger Games style “456 goes back into the grinder” story I’ll be sorely disappointed. I’d rather see them explore the logistics of the outside world that lets the squid game organization keep getting away with this for decades.
The Korean/English subtitled version clearly said that the contestant had to present 20 marbles (own plus opponent’s) to win. Switching wouldn’t have done anything.
My wife, who is South Korean, and I have been watching one episode a night. We’ve now seen through Episode 5 as of last night. We’re both enjoying the show. It’s pretty twisted, and we both are wondering, “What does the Front Man have on the staff that has them participating in all this murder?” Obviously, there’s no issue for my wife about bad subtitling, but for me, I have to ask her what something I heard in Korean really was.
Fun fact: the wife’s brother is a homicide detective in Korea. Maybe that’s one of the reasons everyone in the family enjoys shows with detectives as main characters.
100,000 krw isn’t all that much money. As of today, that’s about US $84.21.
The Rose of Sharon is the national flower of South Korea, and the Korean name for it begins the refrain for South Korea’s national anthem.
Wow. This analysis looks line one for one of my favorite games, So Long Sucker. Too bad that wasn’t in the series! First off, it’s not a children’s game, and it’s not Korean. Who knows, maybe the next season will up the ante, so to speak, and move away from children’s games.
None of the games were “fair”, and all of them were needlessly cruel, because the cruelty was the whole point.
…okay. I’ve got a GQ style question about K Dramas that only a Korean Homicide detective would be able to answer 
So if you wouldn’t mind putting this question to them please? (Feel free to ignore )
But its a common trope in a LOT of Korean dramas I watch where the first bullet in every police service weapon is a blank (to be fired as a warning). The first time I saw it I just rolled my eyes thinking they just made that up for the plot. But I’ve seen it used in about seven or eight dramas now?
Googling various forums people claim that it’s true and they really do this: but nobody posts any sort of official cites. So does this really happen?
Thanks in advance
I won’t argue that they weren’t cruel, but the rest were pretty fair. Red Light was certainly fair. Tug-Of-War and Dalgona both had people win regardless of what they picked/what team they were on.
I don’t know if this has been mentioned here, but as someone that doesn’t watch SNL and just catches clips of it on youtube, I recently ran across this musical sketch that describes the show. IMO, it’s a good enough representation of the show that I tell people to watch it to get an idea of what it’s about.
(If you’re still watching the show, this may contain spoilers)
Red Light wasn’t fair because they didn’t know the stakes before they started - they had no way of knowing that they were going to be shot if they failed.
Dalgona wasn’t fair because its difficulty was based on a choice (which shape) with no information provided in advance. There was no way to make an educated decision - i was basically a roll of the dice.
Tug-O-War was the fairest game of all, but it still wasn’t fair because they didn’t know what they were choosing the teams for.
In short, none of the games were fair. That’s because the games weren’t the point - the point was the psychological torture and anguish the “contestants” underwent. For the VIPs, it wasn’t about watching a game, it was about watching people suffer.
They also weren’t “fair” because Player 1 had advance knowledge of the games. They did make a big freaking deal about advance knowledge skewing the games.
But even discounting that, they were only “fair” in the sense that Russian Roulette is “fair”.
Also the doctor guy who was feeding the knowledge to he bad guy gang.