There are few things more ironic than an anti-capitalist show about poverty exploitation being turned real then exploiting and injuring the people in it
The show hasn't injured anyone. The people directing the show are responsible for its pernicious effects. I get the feeling that you have a problem with the 2nd amendment as well and are easily triggered by the "manosphere".
@@DavidOnTheeYT You don't have to* be so combative, not "gotta". How was my comment combative? I just made simple observations. Don't talk about combat unless you've been in my shoes and had to battle your way back from behind enemy lines in an Afghan desert town after your black hawk went down.
Fun fact: Red light green light went on for multiple hours in real life. They had to wait 30-45mins between green lights. That’s because the camera crew had to film some shots. Also all the participants really slept in the bunkbeds and everyone had only one tracksuit for the entire duration of the show being filmed. They couldnt leave the building for entertainment or fresh air. They had to entertain themselves for hours and hours while no game was played. And then there‘s the issue that noone except the winner got paid
The one part that really grinds my gears was in ep2 when 198 picked up the phone and won a treat (hamburger and fries), then everybody swooped in like turkey vultures and stole his food. Netflix never fails to find the most despicable people for their game shows.
The whole point of Squid game is showing how abhorrent and dangerous exploiting the working class for entertainment is… so they decided to dangerously exploit the working class for entertainment
@@billy-bg9rx Maybe hunger games as well? got to cannibalize dead contestants? 'How interesting it would be to see the trauma in their face as they eat raw human leg!' - netflix
You know. Sometimes, I feel like the higher ups in Netflix are just playing a game called “how many stupid decisions can we make before the company goes bankrupt”
And then when they start losing money, they lay people off to cut costs cuz surely it’s not poor executive decisions. Wouldn’t want to cut that paycheck
Tbf zombieverse was pretty successful and squid game was very successful so it’d make sense to make a reality game show based on squid game, this was the writers/showrunners fault for the obvious manipulation of what happens
Since the show has come out, contestants have been speaking out about it. Red-light green-light lasted over 8 hours. The show depicts a 5 min timer, but contestants had to hold their pose for 30-40 mins at a time.
They were actually speaking about it WELL BEFORE, but people just didn't pay any attention. They've been yelling about how bad this was since it actually started filming back in February.
Sounds about like my uniform inspections during my time in ROTC. There was one time we had to all stand outside in our BDU's in 30° weather for a 45 minute long inspection, because they had to inspect every uniform... My knees, and my frozen face were mildly upset
What made squid game such a great show was that each challenge had high stakes, you felt the pressure of the game and the actors and that was a fantastic watch because you knew its just a show and a fantasy Trying to do it in real life is just cringe and removes the entire premise of the actual show
Some of the contestants came out and stated that the entirety of red light and green light lasted 5-8 hours and the reason why the girl squatting couldn’t make it even though it was like “7 seconds” was because she was actually holding that pose for 30 minutes straight
I don't think Spencers reaction to being pressured into picking the umbrella was scripted. They were horrible to him. He was under pressure from the people in his line, and the three other guys
Idk that shit seemed hella scripted. Do people like that actually exist? MF seemed like a caricature of a wimpy person, I was like he cannot be a real dude he’s an actor or something. If it was real then yeah people were jerks to him, he had no choice tbh.
he and a few other people talked afterwards. supposedly that's not the worse they said, it was not filmed, most of the umbrella line is STILL pissed at spencer. The contestant on tiktok said "he's getting what's coming to him, hopefully not too much" like they were livid. @@onesaucynougat7471
I don’t understand why studios always ruin movies/shows that end on a good note. The greed of wanting more money at the cost of the quality of films will always ruin a franchise.
The show wasn’t even that bad, Charlie’s just hating as per usual. I will admit, the first episode was the most corny one, but it gets better after they stop with the “forced script” thing when everyone acting like they came in vans and shit. Once you get to know the people in it, it actually becomes interesting and they stop acting like 1 dimensional characters.
This comment confuses me It's like it's talking about a second season of Squid Game (which is something that's going to happen) but it's under a video about a different thing What I'm saying is: Netflix didn't ruin the first season by making this show, there was gonna be a season 2 with or without this show
I also had to find out that this existed from my dad, but the difference is, my dad watched it thinking this was season two and didn't realize it was a reality show with real people, so he was like "The story and the acting got really bad, and instead of killing people they shot them with paintball guns, it was really lame."
@@kelseylandon1224 That is an extremely good point! I think either maybe he thought season 2 was being done by a completely different team in ameria, or who knows maybe he DID know it was a reality show and wanted real stakes XD
My heart broke when Spencer (299) got physically ill from the anxiety of choosing the umbrella door. I have generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) and I know that those anxiety attacks mess you up - and the fact that he had his teammates fates in his hands, that would have been crazy stressful😭 Like imagine going home after that and thinking that your actions cost so many people a chance to win - a chance to change their lives. Insane.
The red light green light shoot actually took like 11 hours, people said online that it was green for like 10 seconds then was red for about 45 minutes, so she was popping a squat for like half hour, and that's why people were diving on the floor because it's easier to lay down for 45 minutes rather than stop on the spot
I love how corporations just can’t quite wrap their head around what people actually liked about squid games. That being that it was against the rich and powerful putting on these events for demented entertainment and profit. So Netflix decides that it’s gonna be hip and cool and put people in actually dangerous games for demented entertainment lmao.
@@Madly_Zen Same is true on any set. Read the follow up article where they explain that those alleged injuries werent anything worthwhile to Britains HSE. And only for 2 out of 500+ people. People actin as if the entire crew was dying before our eyes.
I watched the whole show and I believe in episode 4, the guy who went “sympathy is a weakness, god made me this way” got involved in a verbal fight with some guy during team picking for the third game. Some weirdo was trying to shove himself into a full line and everyone was yelling. A girl at the front of the line began to break down because for how loud and aggressive they were being for no reason and 432 (god man) was just like “what is you crying for stfu!” Actually so insensitive.
NGL 432 was my favorite up to that point because he was saying exactly what I was feeling. Like stfu the game ain’t even started yet if you can’t handle the stress why’d you sign up? Making everyone awkward and shit. He was eliminated because of his captains incompetence in the battle ship game and he talked shit to them cause they were honestly awful and deserved it.
@@onesaucynougat7471 it wasnt the captains incompetence at all, thats literally how you play battleships. If he moved where they wanted him to in the first place he wouldnt have even been eliminated, but he decided he knew best even when he didnt even know how to play the game. The fact that he said he shouldve been the captain when he didnt know anything about the game just showed how selfish he was.
my personal favorite part of this show was the during the dalgona episode, between cuts, there is suddenly a hole punched into the triangle door 😭 they also bullied a sensitive neurodivergent dude in this episode
My cousin was in this show, was under an NDA for a while and according to her the conditions were horrible. Like they make it seem like the games went at a leisurely, understandable pace, but apparently things like the freezes between red light green light were like thirty minutes to hours. Like shooting days went over 8 hours a complete shit show lol
My favorite part was when a player took 2 boxes of food, and a group of people straight up bundled in a corner and said “he shouldn’t be doing that!” as if they’ll just let them starve if they run out of food.
I just made a comment about that but I hate how one of the girls gets mad and says “I would never do that” and then when the guy wins the tray of food with chips and two burgers everyone’s fighting trying to share and eat the chips and that girl grabs a burger and just starts eating it by herself and I just thought it was selfish, people had to share some chips on a pretty small tray and she “got” (took) a whole burger to herself
I just pushed myself through all 5 episodes, it was difficult but now it's proven that it can be done. The worst part of the whole show was when some lady was acting like a saint, like she was the savior for the whole group because she chose to vote out a doctor/surgeon or something that did absolutely nothing wrong. If anything he was trying to help the group and had good intentions. She was so proud of herself for that. This was in episode 4
What do you mean savior? She was just watching out for her team and eliminating threats. The doctor(330) was a leader and eliminating him was a good move
@@shellynick763 He wasn't a leader of any group or team and was certainly not one of the biggest threats to her or her group. She saw that somebody disagreed with her on something and chose him because of that, which in my opinion is immaturity. He had good intentions and if anything was making sure there were NO targets on anybody including their group by making the eliminations random. If I was one of the remaining players, I would have also disagreed with him, but I also realise that his intentions were good and that he would have been no threat to me. It was not a smart choice at all. Edit: I don't mean to offend any specific people, but from what I've seen online it's very common for Americans to associate "disagreement" with "against". I think it's a very immature way of thinking.
Wtf why is everyone hating? This show is actually really good 😂 and I usually cringe at reality TV. Ive been a cam op for some reality tv, and I can tell which shows are fake. This shit is NOT scripted. They just have a ton of cameras, a ton of people, and a ton of tense challenges - drama cultivates naturally. And in this case, it’s fuckin gewd
@@Luke-gb8po I honestly think it's the worst reality show I've ever watched ahaha. I don't watch much tv, but I can tell this one is terrible. There are maybe 10 moments in each episode where I was doing this face... -_-
That doctor like most doctors ive met had no social awarness because doctors are too objective. He sounded dumb to me when I heard his speech. So I see how he became target since hes smart and jacked.
apparently the red light green light game actually lasted 17 HOURS and the contestants were holding poses for like 20-40 minutes between each time the clock was stopped
The problem was that the concept is so fucked up that doing it in real life is pretty impossible, which shows why there are so many injuries and lawsuits, I really hope this doesn’t take away from Squid Game S2 because that’s probably going to be great and I don’t want this shows bad reception and controversies to ruin that possible masterpiece
@@NiteraydeI wouldn't doubt it. There's got to be some underground criminal drug/human trafficking ring where the people up top making too much money have gotten board..
Another thing, a contestant talked about this after it released and it turns out they were out there playing red light green light for over 8 hours wearing nothing but the tracksuit. The girl squatting was there for like 40 minutes according to the contestant.
@@jenilee-ef1zithe difference is most shows don't require you to squat or stand in an awkward position for an hour, over 8 hours. They let you stretch in between takes if positioning isn't a big deal - and if it is, they just mark your position with tape so you can stretch and then return to the same spot. No ethical or normal directors would expect this of their actors.
Original Squid Game show: The harsh force of capitalism drives people into poverty and desperation which allows for cruel and inhumane games like this to exist. Games like this should never exist. Makers of new Squid Game: But what if we made Squid Game totally unironically and also made the contestants physically suffer too? *Someone wasn't paying attention here*
Reminds me of the time creatives wanted to make Rollerball from the 1975 movie of the same name an actual sport but the director of the movie was outraged they thought of the idea since it went against the message of the movie. Though we got the horrible reboot years later.
This reminds me of that tweet that was similar to like, I can't believe the rich people made The Machine Of Mass Destruction, based off the hit sci-fi novel " Please Don't Make The Machine Of Mass Destruction"
Apparently, the executive producer also said that the anti-capitalist themes were only a small part of the original series, so that should tell you how much he understands the source material
It wasn't "anti capitalist" it was about "corrupt authority" Everyone tosses the anti-capitalist label around like crazy lol. I've had people say Sonic the Hedgehog fits that bill.
@@headphonesaxolotl It was anti-capitalist, though. Also, the original Sonic games were about an animal with superpowers going on a mission to stop the evil corporate overlord, Doctor Robotnik, from destroying the environment and turning all the animals into terrible robots. Considering how much damage to the environment capitalist corporations have and are doing, I can see how people got "This game kinda anti-capitalist" from its plot and themes. Media literacy is important. Get you some.
@@JustJeff777lmfao what, did you even watch squid game. What would the point be of showing the characters being forced by desperation to come back, despite knowing the only outcomes are money or death. They just wanna entertain the rich freaks that’s what the shows all about? Lolol. Though yes, for the rich spectators it was entertainment, the money is meaningless to them. For the contestants It is life or death, and the money being worth dying for. The hyper rich and the hyper poor
My favorite part was how they started the interviews by adding tidbits about the contestant with their number, but gave up completely on it like 15 minutes later.
I'm fairly sure they did that with those they knew were gonna be there for the rest of the episode, and cut those who got Eliminated. For the most part
Yeah the issue with that particular redlight green light challenge was that they would have to freeze for much longer periods of time than what was shown in the final cut. Meaning they would have to freeze for up to half an hour at a time. Thats why so many people dove to the ground. Thats also why the girl gave up after squatting, it was for much longer than a couple seconds. They would also add time back on the clock so main characters could make it. In other words, they already had a good idea of which contestants they wanted to proceed to further rounds. Everyone else were just extras
If they just did an actual game show instead of a scripted reality show it probably would be a much better show. They went through all this effort just to make it worse.
im ngl the mullet guy and old man were the only people I routed for the entire series to just both get eliminated by a girl who got the chance of 3 eliminations. Now I really dont care anymore
And for those of us that have seen the newer episodes that have been released in the next couple of days I find it absolutely ridiculous that it wasn’t mentioned about that one lady who decided to screw it up for literally everybody and make tray hop like three spaces forward when she was being stupid and didn’t realize what was going on when literally everybody else even myself understood what was going on.
It will never not be hilarious that a TH-camr managed to recreate Squid Game better, with less time and less money while the big companies spat in his face. (Now I am not sure why people feel the need to defend a multi-billion dollar corporation in the reply, but MrBeast did beat them to the idea, did it faster with less money, his version was better received by everyone, and nobody has sued him for injuries. Those are literally facts, don't make yourself look like a fool by making an useless reply.)
Squid game is a show about anti-communism and how the elite use the poor as toys. If you think China and Russia are so great maybe you should move to one.
when i saw it on netflix i thought it was one of those "reality" tv shows, but it was set up like a black mirror episode. The interviews were so over the top I thought for sure it was fake. but then i saw people not actually dying and i was like oh, it's just a shitty reality tv show for real
I physically recoiled during the dalgona game and this guy started sobbing cuz he almost didnt complete the game He was physically shaking and sobbing trying to show the gameshow people his completed cut out. I felt repulsed when the guy who answered the phone and got a burger, then everyone basically jumped his ass and stole his burger, tearing apart his platter. I also got 2nd hand embarrassment watching each person pretend like they were actually shot.
It's almost, *almost*, as if the original show had some kind of layered message hidden inside about the lengths people will go through for a life-changing smack of money. And also something about the people watching them for amusement, with some slight meta worked in for good measure. Nah, must just be me. It's just the funny red light green light show with the funny mask guys with guns.
Those were the dorm tests. Jack in the box was a risky one, and those who participated had to choose up to 3 people to eliminate, and one guy got an advantage for the next game, but he was the second to last one, and the last girl to open her box, ended up eliminating the guy with the advantage ,which was funny as hell. The orange one was a chore, and if they did it fast enough, the dorm got a “treat” which was a picnic, and they had to choose a partner to have the picnic with, but what they didn’t know, it turns out, that the person they had a picnic with, is their marbles partner, which was a clever way of doing it.
To be honest, if people signed up to that game show thinking it’d be “fun and rewarding” it’s their own faults. Even the aplication if you look it up is disturbingly vague on a lot of details. You’re competing for 4.5million, in a competition based off a traumatising tv show? And now they’re all only sueing and complaining cause they lost and want their cut.
As someone who was actually there as a contestant for 9 days, I can say nothing was scripted or trumped up. Bryton (432) was genuinely that way, the whole way through. The MIVs (interviews) were definitely baited or targeted questions but there was honestly NOTHING that was pre-planned or staged. I WILL say the final cut really edited out a LOT of context. I've been filling in gaps for people all week. The production were just extremely opportunistic at framing things well. For example, Dani and Kyle (the people who eliminated 200) were pulled out randomly to do chores, we had NO clue they were the ones selected to take that test. The next day is when they revealed the elimination, so it genuinely caught us off guard.
Oh shit, you're for real! Lieutenant and all, so cool! Were the people on it really the 'big players' or did production frame them that way? I've heard a lot of things generally get changed in the editing room, so I'm just curious about that aspect of things...
the irony of them trying to make a real version of it, and make a big profit with it is amazing. the whole message of the show is, "this situation is wrong"
@@LeapingRatthe situation was wrong because its a manifestation of capitalist exploitation of the desperate. The problem is that people were desperate enough to begin with, and the only amusement is from the suffering and exploitation. Commodified suffering.
@@LeapingRat no, I just think the showrunners didn't understand the point of the original show, and are just tacking on a game show on a successful IP for money, accidentally doing the bad thing. I don't think intentions were malicious, just tone deaf and stupid. But thats kinda the problem no? Like the financial forces at play mean that you don't need malice to perpetuate systems of abuse and exploitation.
My favorite moment in this show had to be the guy trying his best not to vomit, for like 8 minutes during a competition. It perfectly sums up this entire show.
I remember how cold it was during that cold snap, apparently they spent 30 minutes standing in the cold before shooting started and they wouldn't let people wear coats because they wanted them to be ready to start shooting at a moment's notice
According to some of the contestants, they had to freeze for up to 40 minutes at a time. The game took multiple hours to complete. The timer stopped when they had to freeze. People were cramping up severely and paramedics were constantly being called.
@@yeetboi268 it's a show not the real product 💀I'd say you were right if we were looking at a real-life, actual squid game meant for the entertainment of some rich people and performed by like a gang or sum shi but this is a netflix show tf
Kdramas are thriving right now though (although i haven't particularly liked any outside of moving) like 30% of the top 10 global on netflix are korean. I think Hollywood will continuously try to copy it lol
@@kelseylandon1224 That's because Netflix, who needed content during the strike, purchased a bunch of Korean shows. You will see less of them now that the strike is over.
They could have broken the groups of 100. Do 1 full episodes with each group, fleshing the contestants like a "real" reality show and creating expectations with each episode. When the groups got smaller, they would join into one big group. You would have alliances from the previous groups, drama from the ones that already made groups and it will snowballed from there. They didn't have to copy a 1 to 1 version. They just need it to do a reality show and dressed up with the squid games.
Started watching this after Thanksgiving with my family. It's pretty amazing how fast we were all over it. Conclusion: "So this is just Squid Game again...? But worse?" Edit: We were wondering why, during a game where that they needed to run, everyone had their hands in their pockets. Turns out it was fucking freezing.
I don't think it's fake I just think Netflix has purposefully hand picked each and everyone as mentally ill misfits from each other to create as much drama as possible. Ego is a big thing as well trust me people can act and say really dumb things if they think they're better than everyone else, it's ironic because anyone playing for the money isn't going to win the money. They need a different mindset to win. My money is on 18 (quiet, reserved, smart and watching in the background) The casting isn't fake but the selection process certainly wasn’t random at all. To add onto this they purposefully created challenges to further stir the drama by eliminating alliance members to create more drama. I think it's in the terms to go out quietly if eliminated as you can see people quietly balling their eyes out hunched over. So there was real stakes and loss on the line for certain. It's not Squid game it's a psychological mind fxck.
Yea I think Charlie doesn't understand how reality tv editing works to make such narratives. All the people are purposefully chosen as big personalities and then they deliberately cut and pick out the most wild lines and scenes to emphasise and concentrate those personalities to make them over the top. Then they cut and paste voice lines, canned reactions to exaggerate each scene.
they literally wrote in plot points from squid game into the inter-personal contestant drama. a lot of coincidences for a non-scripted show. it honestly watches like a high school musical version of a theatre show.
There was a tiktoker who was actually a part of it. That filming of Red Light Green Light took over 7 hours as there were long pauses between when the doll turned around and when it went back to green light to review whether people were eliminated or not. So that girl squatting was probably holding that for a good half an hour to an hour or longer each time
You should’ve mentioned the girl that gave up on the green light, red light because she couldn’t hearing the popping sounds of people getting eliminated. So she basically lays down and starts crying in a bawl
I thought she stopped because she, for whatever reason, decided to stop in a squatting position. If she were squatting for 30 some minutes, that would be hard to keep up.
How the heck can they even hold a challenge event based on the most basic children's game and somehow still injure their contestants. At least in the original show, the contestants were at risk of getting fatally shot by the organizers if they lost the game.
The programme was filmed at Cardington Sheds. It's were the Ill fated R101 airship was built. Imagine sleeping in a 149,000 square foot metal tin during a UK cold spell with limited heating. That might possibly be the cause of the hypothermia.
Just saw the trailer today and I am glad that they decided to show how "dramatic" it's all supposed to be. Was already a hard pass, but thanks for letting me know it's so much worse than I even imagined.
We know you all love the hit show "Please for the love of God don't make the baby squisher" so here tonight we're proud to announce that we have made the baby squisher!
"Lawsuits have been made against 'Baby Squisher Gameshow' which was inspired by the setting from 'Please for the love of God don't make the baby squisher' due to the alleged trauma caused to contestants when they witnessed babies being squished."
So I personally know one of the contestants. He stated that for red light greenlight was not 5 mins and was actually 7 hrs. The robot would sing for 5 secs and the timer would only countdown during the singing part. When the robot was not singing, the timer would pause and they had to hold their position for 20 mins. They would review the footage to see if anyone moved during the game and they couldn't move while they reviewed the footage. Thats why people would dive, so they would be laying down instead of standing for 20 mins and thats why the girl who squatted got out, cuz she had to hold the squat for 20 mins. My friend said people got out because they had to go to the bathroom and couldn't hold it.
My friend was watching this last night and telling me how terrible it was as she was watching. Netflix seems to be flailing around with no clue what to do lately.
Besides the inhumane treatment, the way this interpretation works is terrible. All the people they showed (the old man and mullet man) were my favorite. They were doing fine in the game until they give a literal random the opportunity to eliminate 3 people, which was both of them. They could not do anything about it.. so unfair..
They got eliminated because the producers called out the old man to be taken back stage and the dude with the mullet went with him, at that moment their fate was sealed because now everybody became aware of their presence and when they both came back the most logical thing to assume is that they gained some type of advantage, which they technically did (candy bar), so in short the producers of the show screwed the old man and the dude with the mullet.
"'Sympathy is a weakness', and it's right before Red Light, Green Light", is the funniest juxtaposition of things ever, probably even moreso if you dont know the context behind Squid Games. Like that's something you'd hear on Loiter Squad.
One of my distant family members was a participant in the challenge under the number 232 as the oldest contender at 69 so during Thanksgiving we all sat down and watched it. Most of it was pretty mid but he did the funniest shit and started a group among the contestants called the “gganbu gang”. This show may have been a poor attempt at expanding the Netflix monopoly but I was glad to see him have fun during all of it.
Doc Rick was the best thing that happened to this show, he seemed like someone who really liked the original show, from all the people there he was the only person I got the feeling that he is there to have fun,to be more emersed in the Squid Game Universe, he remembered ddakji, I think he came up with Gganbu as their name, I wish all the best to him and his 18 grandchildren
Rick was cool but I didn’t forget what he said in episode 1 when said he was using his age to his advantage Rick was the real number 001 he’s the puppet master but I was sick when they booted him
Aw I love Rick! I was so sad when him and the young guy got booted off. It was such an unfair way of doing things, but I'm glad he at least seemed to have fun.
I went to watch the first episode to see just how bad it was for myself, and you weren’t kidding. Someone really did cry when 200 was eliminated and that was just hilarious.
From what constestants have came out and said, they told contestants it would be 2hours of filming that ended up going for 7 hours and the wait times between red/green light would be up to 2min long and ended up having some wait times up to 30mins long in 32deg temps and they all had to open their jackets to expose they blow up packs through the white shirt. When people collapsed and needed medical attention, they announced the game is not paused and people had to hold position while the medics helped people.
Idk it just doesn't hit the same when the players know that their lives aren't on the line. Like the scene with the woman who quit bc she got tired of squatting in red light, green light really killed it for me.
That one was crazy because d so he was only like halfway squatting and there’s no way they had a red light for over a minute because the timer doesn’t stop running. So she was dumb enough to squat for no reason and weak enough either mentally or physically to not hold a half-squat for max like 45 seconds
Saw a girl on tiktok who was supposedly contestant 021 (emmashavingfun). She said it took like 6 hours to film red light green light and some of the pauses were having to hold their poses for 40 minutes at time, so that’s probably why they couldn’t stay in the squat. And that’s also why a lot of them were flopping or trying to get into a seated position…
@@callmecharlie4250 that does explain why she had to quit but that’s stupid as hell on the show creators’ side to pretend it all happened within 10 minutes and highlight her giving up because it definitely took away from the quality of the show
@@shanedancer3895that’s a good point. It probably would’ve been more interesting if they revealed that each pause was 10~40min to show how intense it was. Maybe a few shots of people shaking in place from an uncomfortable position, etc. Making it seem like it’s a few seconds or a few minutes tops downplays the “intense gameshow” vibe they’re trying to go for.
They knew it was the cookie game. THey were just brought into the wrong room and then instead of doing what the TV show did and let them each pick their own cookie they were all dependent on whoever was in front of the line. They also assumed that the 3rd game was going to be Tug-O-War but it turned out to be Battleship. What's really dumb is they should've known marbles was coming up yet they all decided to pair with their best friends when told to pair up.
@@leeshapon It's been nice seeing them subvert expectations with the cookie game being a uniamous decision. Tug turning into battleship. I really wish the contestants were thinking while being told to 'pair' up. I would've been so suspicious of that.
This reaction video is made me feel normal again was trippen for a sec ..You are spot on, my friend. I have just become a new subscriber because of your content. It's funny because when I got home, I was really ampdddd up to watch the new Netflix show, Squid Game Challenge. 🎉Initially, I thought it was already the second season, but it kept saying "coming soon." Come to find out i waisted 40min of my life that i want back! I think the whole point of the real show was the suspense and tragedy that viewers anticipated and had you at the edge of your seat. Anwyays I finally started watching episode one paused after player 200, I couldn't believe it. I wasn't sure if I was imagining things or if it was FR...- the worst show I've ever seen. I figured i search youtube to see if im really trip-pen ... and i come across this reaction !!👌👌👌🤝 hopefully season 2 is well thought like season 1 , but danm this got me losing hope and less interested in season 2 now! But again on point!
By the way guys, this is NOT season 2 of the show. This is just a little reality show they decided to make. The actually second season is coming out next year, I believe :)
@UnitTrace the original squid game creators are from south korea, this was a british show,,, so hopefully people aren’t gonna drop the original show. i can’t wait for season 2 (bc of a single actress lmao)
I found it funny bad. A guy got bullied into choosing umbrella and started crying about it. He also cried in the interview. Even when the match began, he spent the whole time crying and dry heaving while cutting the cookie that was literally drowning in his saliva. When he broke the cookie he just laid down and closed his eyes like he was preparing to get shot. Truly the funniest character in the series😂
the show is good: its a standard reality show and you can skip the filler if you want. so nothing agaisnt it; everyone is being overly dramatic but intentionally so, so they appear in the final edit. i can understand not liking reality shows in general and essentially people pretending to be energetic and annoying to draw attention but its not bad in any way.
As someone who used to watch a lot of reality tv, this sounds like every bad reality tv show ever now. Every bad stereotype of reality tv show. The whole I hAVe sO maNY STRugglES and shit
The annoying thing was that me and my family though that it was finally the sequel to the original squid game show, and we tried our best not to watch any trailer or spoilers. Then it finally it came out and boy we were dissapointed.
@@pxsoul888 But it doesn't change the fact that it was a horrible reality show, if it was any good then we wouldn't complain of it not being the sequel.
I'm surprised how connected everyone was to other people, as I personally relate to one of the (as of ep 6) still alive contestants, my Counseller got put into the show and is number 120 (honestly Im super glad 432 and 161 got out as according to him, they were pretty annoying and awful to the others, which is seen in the show thankfully) Edit: it turns out he was given the umbrella and survived I was just told, this sounds so fake but I swear I am telling the truth, even though I am rooting for the kid and his mom since they seem nice, i am rooting for 120.
Personally, I believe you. One of my friends auditioned to be on the show and got accepted to be a participant. But she turned down the opportunity after finding out what the living conditions would be like during her final interview with one of the shows producers. She was smart enough to ask about living environment and accommodation during her virtual interview. She told me they told her that they have to stay in the building during the entirety of the shoot, that they couldn’t leave even during NON-filming hours, that the showers were co-ed & communal (but had individual stalls-at the very least), that they’d only be wearing the track suits and no other change of clothing even on NON-filming days, that their belongings would be confiscated (no phones, no books, no music, etc), and that they couldn’t order food from outside and they were to eat only what the show provided them witb to make the experience feel more “real” and “immersive”. She said when she heard all that she was like hell no and respectfully bowed out, lol. Good luck to the 1 person who ends up being the sole victor though.
Hate to break it to you, the stuff with the kid and his mom was super scripted. "Another says she was eliminated when there were five seconds remaining on the clock at the end of the grueling nine hours. But as she waited to be escorted off the set, she says she noticed cameras pointed at a contestant who was playing with his mother. 'This kid is sitting at the finish line, he’s crying, and cameras are on him and he’s waiting for his mom. They added [more time] to the clock for her to get across because she was one of the people that they wanted to be in the show.'"
ehh you dont need to break it to me, i know it was super scripted, which is why im hoping my guy 120 wins, though he probably wont since they have such a script for it, bet they are going to make the kid win or smth since how it is working among other things.@@imightbebiased9311
@@unfiltered8407 Holy shit, that's crazy if true. Is it really the case that they're not on actor contracts, but participant contracts (only the winner gets money)?
@@MaskedDeath_ She told me that the only payment they’d receive was the cost of the flight being covered to (and from) the UK-where the show was to be filmed. That’s it. I was like damn.😕 And she also said the producer told her that the total filming time frame for the show would be like 1month. I honestly expected Netflix to have all the contestants staying in a nice hotel and that they’d be able to enjoy the experience as free vacation and explore the UK on non-filming days, then have to suit up and “put on a show” during filming days for the show. But that was definitely not the case. Netflix just wanted free labor for a fraction of the price and only 1-person (being the winner) walks away with a paycheck…a BIG one. I told my friend that Netflix is actually cheaper/stingier than I expected them to be given how much their stock & company is worth, lol. I also told her that she should make a TH-cam video on why she didn’t sign up to be a participant since she has all the email exchanges with the casting producers still saved in her inbox.
I SAW that they took the premise from Squid Game and turned it into an ACTUAL competition show (except, you know, MINUS THE ACTUAL SLAUGHTER OF CONTESTANTS). I just SHOOK MY HEAD while saying, “Netflix, WTF ARE YOU DOING?!”
I mean, it was real. But they did make sure to film the most interesting people who signed up and edited out a lot to fit it all in to make it all fit.
Tbh i actually laughed at the dramatic parts because it was horribly bad and Dramatically funny that they were trying so hard to make it a reality type show 💀
I heard there were a lot of reshoots: i was confused as to why when that girl squatted for 8 seconds was crying and gave up and looks like they may have restarted multiple times
I saw one girl from the show say that at one point workers on set informed her that it was actually 24 degrees in there and they just have those thin track suits on
My very offline dad got so bored watching this that he went to watch the actual series. I think he liked it, he stayed awake the whole time and didn’t even make one dad noise.
I remember when the casting call went out I thought “Why not?” But decided against it after realizing I was planning on joining the service instead, I have never been more glad about my past choices
@@justinwescott8125 I’ve been in for about 8 months now, made great friends, got a steady job, in great shape, and over all improved as a person. Yeah, I’d say it’s better than this
One of my friends auditioned to be on the show and got accepted to be a participant. But she turned down the opportunity after finding out what the living conditions would be like during her final interview with one of the shows producers. She was smart enough to ask about living environment and accommodation during her virtual interview. She told me they told her that they have to stay in the building during the entirety of the shoot, that they couldn’t leave even during NON-filming hours, that the showers were co-ed & communal (but had individual stalls-at the very least), that they’d only be wearing the track suits and no other change of clothing even on NON-filming days, that their belongings would be confiscated (no phones, no books, no music, etc), and that they couldn’t order food from outside and they were to eat only what the show provided them with to make the experience feel more “real” and “immersive”. She said when she heard all that she was like hell no and respectfully bowed out, lol. Good luck to the 1 person who ends up being the sole victor though.
@@justinwescott8125I’m pretty sure they were being sarcastic and saying that the show’s crude living conditions, behind the scene, is like signing up for the military….they didn’t actually join the military.
I decided I wanted to watch this too to see how funny bad it is and when 6 minutes in I heard someone say they had an advantage because they could see things before they happen and know when someone is lying, I knew I was in for a treat
@@RedLemonColait's not even close lmao. Game show do not have forced drama and personality like it's a reality tv show. You don't see people talked like an anime character in wheels of fortune
Ur right it isn't a gameshow my bad thats trivia like jepordy lol, it's a competition show. And I honestly don't care if it's scripted most are anyways, I'm there to just see who wins and the drama just like in the OG squid game series.
@@hahalerymc6878 yeah, but now the OG Comment sounds worse because of it lol, who tf wants to watch a trivia show for squid games, ill rather take a fake reality TV show with competition.
The shapes in the cookies challenge should have been hidden. They should let them choose a mystery gate and then give them time to change. Once the players picked their line, that's when they reveal the shape.
There are few things more ironic than an anti-capitalist show about poverty exploitation being turned real then exploiting and injuring the people in it
It was semi-ironic when Mr. Beast did it, now the irony is so strong it could even lift your mom.
The show hasn't injured anyone. The people directing the show are responsible for its pernicious effects. I get the feeling that you have a problem with the 2nd amendment as well and are easily triggered by the "manosphere".
@@Zenigundam you don’t gotta be so combative, can’t read through comments anymore. egos, snowflakes, and insecurities everywhere
@@DavidOnTheeYT You don't have to* be so combative, not "gotta". How was my comment combative? I just made simple observations. Don't talk about combat unless you've been in my shoes and had to battle your way back from behind enemy lines in an Afghan desert town after your black hawk went down.
It's not that deep, it's a game show
They literally did the one thing that the show was against. Holy shit.
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The amount of bots in here is insane
Womp womp Mr beast did it first
How? Noone is dying or killing each other for success.
You against other gameshows?
Fun fact: Red light green light went on for multiple hours in real life. They had to wait 30-45mins between green lights. That’s because the camera crew had to film some shots. Also all the participants really slept in the bunkbeds and everyone had only one tracksuit for the entire duration of the show being filmed. They couldnt leave the building for entertainment or fresh air. They had to entertain themselves for hours and hours while no game was played.
And then there‘s the issue that noone except the winner got paid
Well, I guess they really caught the essence of Squid Game in a sense.
"Noone got paid except the winner"
Well yeah. That's how things should work lol
Ummm yeah did you ever see squid games 🤦♂️
@@Phoenix1121212 i don't know the details but if they participate in a show over multiple days and are expected to act, shouldn't they get paid?
@@davidtitanium22they signed up for a competition. The didn’t really sign up for an acting gig.
The one part that really grinds my gears was in ep2 when 198 picked up the phone and won a treat (hamburger and fries), then everybody swooped in like turkey vultures and stole his food. Netflix never fails to find the most despicable people for their game shows.
Omggg ikr???
That literally happened in the show though, pretty realistic too.
Maybe they should have said "if you touch his food you will be eliminated immediately".
Actors and internet "content creators" 9/10 times are awful human beings
You would do this too if you were starved for food. We’re humans. We have survival instincts just like any other animal.
The whole point of Squid game is showing how abhorrent and dangerous exploiting the working class for entertainment is… so they decided to dangerously exploit the working class for entertainment
So, they made actual Squid Game. Props for accuracy, I guess?
the whole point of squid games was to make money. You're an idiot if you think anything on netflix is made for altruistic purposes.
Netflix clearly missed the entirety of the point
Yep it's giving Mr. Beast when he wanted to put someone in a isolated room for days to win money.
@@billy-bg9rx Maybe hunger games as well? got to cannibalize dead contestants? 'How interesting it would be to see the trauma in their face as they eat raw human leg!' - netflix
You know. Sometimes, I feel like the higher ups in Netflix are just playing a game called “how many stupid decisions can we make before the company goes bankrupt”
This is my headcanon now
And then when they start losing money, they lay people off to cut costs cuz surely it’s not poor executive decisions. Wouldn’t want to cut that paycheck
@@YourFavoriteNarcissistmy headcanon too now
Tbf zombieverse was pretty successful and squid game was very successful so it’d make sense to make a reality game show based on squid game, this was the writers/showrunners fault for the obvious manipulation of what happens
They are sadly making a lot of money at the moment.
Since the show has come out, contestants have been speaking out about it. Red-light green-light lasted over 8 hours. The show depicts a 5 min timer, but contestants had to hold their pose for 30-40 mins at a time.
They were actually speaking about it WELL BEFORE, but people just didn't pay any attention. They've been yelling about how bad this was since it actually started filming back in February.
Sounds about like my uniform inspections during my time in ROTC.
There was one time we had to all stand outside in our BDU's in 30° weather for a 45 minute long inspection, because they had to inspect every uniform...
My knees, and my frozen face were mildly upset
What made squid game such a great show was that each challenge had high stakes, you felt the pressure of the game and the actors and that was a fantastic watch because you knew its just a show and a fantasy
Trying to do it in real life is just cringe and removes the entire premise of the actual show
It's cringe, but the show is fun as fuck.
It's like when they wanted to make rollerball a real sport but in a society that forgot what satire means they actually went through with it
anyone who says the word cringe at anything other than people disregarding common sense is simply saying having an opinion/ having fun=cringe
Watch the show, you definitely feel the stakes.
@@Kitkat-tg3uudon’t care, cringe comment
Who would have known that making a game show based on a show about a traumatizing game show would be so traumatizing?
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Well MrBeast did it too. Netflix just sucks
@@jimhalpert0that’s true why would they even bother after knowing he put out that banger. They could never compete with him
Charlie inspires me, my parents said if I get 30k followers here They'd buy me a better camera for recording,, begging u guys. Literally begging
@MbitaChizi shut the hell up
Some of the contestants came out and stated that the entirety of red light and green light lasted 5-8 hours and the reason why the girl squatting couldn’t make it even though it was like “7 seconds” was because she was actually holding that pose for 30 minutes straight
Yeah I was surprised too when I found out. Red light green light lasted 8 to 10 hours in cold temperature.
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@@shellynick763Are they not inside a building tho while doing that challenge? I’m watching it right now as we speak so i’m intrigued 😂
What about the 5 minute timer going off to make it across?
@@CamsCamChannelmost likely stopped it while they were frozen, so they could get the shots and check cameras to see who's out
i was angriest when ashley (278) didn’t go ahead for trey (301) who was everyone’s fav and then everyone proceeded to love on ashley after??
right then they got mad at Mai for wanting to eliminate her.
I actually hated that part. It made no sense.
Finally someone who feels the same way. Then she had the nerve to lie to Mai about how she did take her turn, when Mai tried to apologize.
I don't think Spencers reaction to being pressured into picking the umbrella was scripted. They were horrible to him. He was under pressure from the people in his line, and the three other guys
Someone from his line even called him an idiot to his face as well
Unpopular opinion: Spencer was a total pussy who made most of his line lose.
Idk that shit seemed hella scripted. Do people like that actually exist? MF seemed like a caricature of a wimpy person, I was like he cannot be a real dude he’s an actor or something. If it was real then yeah people were jerks to him, he had no choice tbh.
he and a few other people talked afterwards. supposedly that's not the worse they said, it was not filmed, most of the umbrella line is STILL pissed at spencer. The contestant on tiktok said "he's getting what's coming to him, hopefully not too much" like they were livid. @@onesaucynougat7471
@@onesaucynougat7471oh it was definitely real, i guess if you don't have anxiety it might be hard to understand why he acted like that
I don’t understand why studios always ruin movies/shows that end on a good note. The greed of wanting more money at the cost of the quality of films will always ruin a franchise.
I’m 100% better than Charles
The show wasn’t even that bad, Charlie’s just hating as per usual.
I will admit, the first episode was the most corny one, but it gets better after they stop with the “forced script” thing when everyone acting like they came in vans and shit. Once you get to know the people in it, it actually becomes interesting and they stop acting like 1 dimensional characters.
@@ashlinthomas4500then why would they start a show like this? Literally it’s going to make people stop watching the damn show bc of it.
This comment confuses me
It's like it's talking about a second season of Squid Game (which is something that's going to happen) but it's under a video about a different thing
What I'm saying is: Netflix didn't ruin the first season by making this show, there was gonna be a season 2 with or without this show
I can see you didn't actually watch the show. They left a massive cliffhanger.
I also had to find out that this existed from my dad, but the difference is, my dad watched it thinking this was season two and didn't realize it was a reality show with real people, so he was like "The story and the acting got really bad, and instead of killing people they shot them with paintball guns, it was really lame."
thats funny
I just laughed.
did he not question the fact the language changed?
@@kelseylandon1224 That is an extremely good point! I think either maybe he thought season 2 was being done by a completely different team in ameria, or who knows maybe he DID know it was a reality show and wanted real stakes XD
It was not paintball guns lmao. Wow these comments are wild
My heart broke when Spencer (299) got physically ill from the anxiety of choosing the umbrella door. I have generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) and I know that those anxiety attacks mess you up - and the fact that he had his teammates fates in his hands, that would have been crazy stressful😭 Like imagine going home after that and thinking that your actions cost so many people a chance to win - a chance to change their lives. Insane.
Nobody cares
Wah
Why would he sign up for a nearly accurate recreation of Squid Game if he has severe anxiety? That was his fault
The lack of empathy here is beyond disturbing
That shit was hilarious
The red light green light shoot actually took like 11 hours, people said online that it was green for like 10 seconds then was red for about 45 minutes, so she was popping a squat for like half hour, and that's why people were diving on the floor because it's easier to lay down for 45 minutes rather than stop on the spot
Imagine you're a multi-billion-dollar company and a youtuber not only beat you to an idea but also did it better
Mr beast is a billionaire as well (I'm not hating him tf)
@@DryEther he tends to at least actually help people though. Big difference.
mr beast is a multi billion dollar company lol
@@ichigokage well its because it makes him money
that still doesnt change what he said lol @@ichigokage
I love how corporations just can’t quite wrap their head around what people actually liked about squid games. That being that it was against the rich and powerful putting on these events for demented entertainment and profit. So Netflix decides that it’s gonna be hip and cool and put people in actually dangerous games for demented entertainment lmao.
yeah that extremely dangerous honeycomb game holy shit how could they do that to these people
@@LeapingRat bud…you are aware that you can still have safety hazards and negligence, even if you’re not making a literal death maze 💀
@@Madly_Zen Same is true on any set.
Read the follow up article where they explain that those alleged injuries werent anything worthwhile to Britains HSE.
And only for 2 out of 500+ people. People actin as if the entire crew was dying before our eyes.
I felt it was more about greed in general
Corpos gonna corp.
I watched the whole show and I believe in episode 4, the guy who went “sympathy is a weakness, god made me this way” got involved in a verbal fight with some guy during team picking for the third game. Some weirdo was trying to shove himself into a full line and everyone was yelling. A girl at the front of the line began to break down because for how loud and aggressive they were being for no reason and 432 (god man) was just like “what is you crying for stfu!” Actually so insensitive.
He probably watched too many sigma male videos on youtube or is actually a sociopath, that is not well adjusted behaviour.
NGL 432 was my favorite up to that point because he was saying exactly what I was feeling. Like stfu the game ain’t even started yet if you can’t handle the stress why’d you sign up? Making everyone awkward and shit. He was eliminated because of his captains incompetence in the battle ship game and he talked shit to them cause they were honestly awful and deserved it.
@@onesaucynougat7471 it wasnt the captains incompetence at all, thats literally how you play battleships. If he moved where they wanted him to in the first place he wouldnt have even been eliminated, but he decided he knew best even when he didnt even know how to play the game. The fact that he said he shouldve been the captain when he didnt know anything about the game just showed how selfish he was.
my personal favorite part of this show was the during the dalgona episode, between cuts, there is suddenly a hole punched into the triangle door 😭
they also bullied a sensitive neurodivergent dude in this episode
I felt so bad for him
why tf did he sign up for it then? Did he think it was all gonna be fun and rainbows?
@@axstr1cI’m with you, how could he not have expected high pressure situations?
My cousin was in this show, was under an NDA for a while and according to her the conditions were horrible. Like they make it seem like the games went at a leisurely, understandable pace, but apparently things like the freezes between red light green light were like thirty minutes to hours. Like shooting days went over 8 hours a complete shit show lol
That adds up. Reality shows do stuff like that all the time to put people on edge and then cut it out.
My cousin was 432 so likely bullied your cousin, tell him i said sorry lol
@@cartermims2295no way 432 put me through a lot of emotions. He was mean, cringe, but often times funny. Interesting guy
That definitely explains why by the end of the red light green light game, some of them looked extremely exhausted, mentally and physically
Honestly why TF did that one girl turn to the side and squat 😐
My favorite part was when a player took 2 boxes of food, and a group of people straight up bundled in a corner and said “he shouldn’t be doing that!” as if they’ll just let them starve if they run out of food.
I just made a comment about that but I hate how one of the girls gets mad and says “I would never do that” and then when the guy wins the tray of food with chips and two burgers everyone’s fighting trying to share and eat the chips and that girl grabs a burger and just starts eating it by herself and I just thought it was selfish, people had to share some chips on a pretty small tray and she “got” (took) a whole burger to herself
@@LOADEDPISTOL Lmao the hypocrisy.
@@LOADEDPISTOLApparently the guy let her take it because he could only eat halal meat
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It wasn’t Halal, she was given it by the guy. It was edited out.
@@user-sf9gs2pg1bhow tf do you know this? Is there bloopers up? I haven’t checked and would be surprised if there were already
I just pushed myself through all 5 episodes, it was difficult but now it's proven that it can be done. The worst part of the whole show was when some lady was acting like a saint, like she was the savior for the whole group because she chose to vote out a doctor/surgeon or something that did absolutely nothing wrong. If anything he was trying to help the group and had good intentions. She was so proud of herself for that. This was in episode 4
What do you mean savior? She was just watching out for her team and eliminating threats. The doctor(330) was a leader and eliminating him was a good move
@@shellynick763 He wasn't a leader of any group or team and was certainly not one of the biggest threats to her or her group. She saw that somebody disagreed with her on something and chose him because of that, which in my opinion is immaturity. He had good intentions and if anything was making sure there were NO targets on anybody including their group by making the eliminations random. If I was one of the remaining players, I would have also disagreed with him, but I also realise that his intentions were good and that he would have been no threat to me. It was not a smart choice at all.
Edit: I don't mean to offend any specific people, but from what I've seen online it's very common for Americans to associate "disagreement" with "against". I think it's a very immature way of thinking.
Wtf why is everyone hating? This show is actually really good 😂 and I usually cringe at reality TV. Ive been a cam op for some reality tv, and I can tell which shows are fake. This shit is NOT scripted. They just have a ton of cameras, a ton of people, and a ton of tense challenges - drama cultivates naturally. And in this case, it’s fuckin gewd
@@Luke-gb8po I honestly think it's the worst reality show I've ever watched ahaha. I don't watch much tv, but I can tell this one is terrible. There are maybe 10 moments in each episode where I was doing this face... -_-
That doctor like most doctors ive met had no social awarness because doctors are too objective. He sounded dumb to me when I heard his speech. So I see how he became target since hes smart and jacked.
Still got love for Gganbu Gang, especially Doc. He didn't deserve to be eliminated.
apparently the red light green light game actually lasted 17 HOURS and the contestants were holding poses for like 20-40 minutes between each time the clock was stopped
Oh so that’s why some would just lay on the ground
@@pharm9077and why the girl couldn’t hold the squat lol
Incompetence level: Netfix Original
@@tourmiiI heard she held it for about 45 minutes
Why for so long? What were they waiting for?
The problem was that the concept is so fucked up that doing it in real life is pretty impossible, which shows why there are so many injuries and lawsuits, I really hope this doesn’t take away from Squid Game S2 because that’s probably going to be great and I don’t want this shows bad reception and controversies to ruin that possible masterpiece
I’m 100% better than Charles
You know some rich dude has made a near 1 for 1 copy of it by now XD
@@Niterayde not season 2 of squid game, which I am still looking forward to!
And they won't actually kill people, which is a important level of risk. It creates a a certain mental difference.
@@NiteraydeI wouldn't doubt it. There's got to be some underground criminal drug/human trafficking ring where the people up top making too much money have gotten board..
The worse scene was when the sweet guy who chose the umbrella nearly vomited over his anxiety about it
Someone in the comments knows that dude
That shit was hilarious!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Bro I was like wtf 😂 can you actually be like that
Another thing, a contestant talked about this after it released and it turns out they were out there playing red light green light for over 8 hours wearing nothing but the tracksuit. The girl squatting was there for like 40 minutes according to the contestant.
Most shows filming scenes take hours, understand if they weren't informed expect long hours
@@jenilee-ef1zithe difference is most shows don't require you to squat or stand in an awkward position for an hour, over 8 hours. They let you stretch in between takes if positioning isn't a big deal - and if it is, they just mark your position with tape so you can stretch and then return to the same spot. No ethical or normal directors would expect this of their actors.
Original Squid Game show: The harsh force of capitalism drives people into poverty and desperation which allows for cruel and inhumane games like this to exist. Games like this should never exist.
Makers of new Squid Game: But what if we made Squid Game totally unironically and also made the contestants physically suffer too?
*Someone wasn't paying attention here*
This is what I was thinking when I heard about it. They have 0 self awareness 😭
Reminds me of the time creatives wanted to make Rollerball from the 1975 movie of the same name an actual sport but the director of the movie was outraged they thought of the idea since it went against the message of the movie. Though we got the horrible reboot years later.
Capitalists don't mind a show saying or proving capitalists bad, as long as it makes them money.
The irony is greater as capitalism allowed both to exist.
This reminds me of that tweet that was similar to like, I can't believe the rich people made The Machine Of Mass Destruction, based off the hit sci-fi novel " Please Don't Make The Machine Of Mass Destruction"
Apparently, the executive producer also said that the anti-capitalist themes were only a small part of the original series, so that should tell you how much he understands the source material
It wasn't "anti capitalist" it was about "corrupt authority"
Everyone tosses the anti-capitalist label around like crazy lol. I've had people say Sonic the Hedgehog fits that bill.
@@headphonesaxolotl It was anti-capitalist, though. Also, the original Sonic games were about an animal with superpowers going on a mission to stop the evil corporate overlord, Doctor Robotnik, from destroying the environment and turning all the animals into terrible robots. Considering how much damage to the environment capitalist corporations have and are doing, I can see how people got "This game kinda anti-capitalist" from its plot and themes.
Media literacy is important. Get you some.
It's literally about entertainment
@@sluttyMapleSyrup I just find it funny how everyone bashes the system that kidn of works and favor of systems that flat out don't
@@JustJeff777lmfao what, did you even watch squid game. What would the point be of showing the characters being forced by desperation to come back, despite knowing the only outcomes are money or death. They just wanna entertain the rich freaks that’s what the shows all about? Lolol. Though yes, for the rich spectators it was entertainment, the money is meaningless to them. For the contestants It is life or death, and the money being worth dying for. The hyper rich and the hyper poor
My favorite part was how they started the interviews by adding tidbits about the contestant with their number, but gave up completely on it like 15 minutes later.
I'm fairly sure they did that with those they knew were gonna be there for the rest of the episode, and cut those who got Eliminated. For the most part
So strange that people who would sign up for such an event would somehow decide to try and sue the show.
Making a game show about the wealth-poverty gap in Korea based on the original series is such an American thing to do
Money money money 🦀
Remenber, Gangnam style got crazy popular
American companies making remakes of Korean stuff and completely missing the mark in the process is a worrying trend indeed.
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This is a British show produced by a British studio.
Yeah the issue with that particular redlight green light challenge was that they would have to freeze for much longer periods of time than what was shown in the final cut. Meaning they would have to freeze for up to half an hour at a time. Thats why so many people dove to the ground. Thats also why the girl gave up after squatting, it was for much longer than a couple seconds. They would also add time back on the clock so main characters could make it. In other words, they already had a good idea of which contestants they wanted to proceed to further rounds. Everyone else were just extras
If they just did an actual game show instead of a scripted reality show it probably would be a much better show. They went through all this effort just to make it worse.
im ngl the mullet guy and old man were the only people I routed for the entire series to just both get eliminated by a girl who got the chance of 3 eliminations. Now I really dont care anymore
@@nahhyourwrongstill pissed abt that, what did rick do, hes so old
@@consumy3425it also made no sense how you would be allowed to eliminate someone who has an advantage just because you opened your box after them
how do u know
And for those of us that have seen the newer episodes that have been released in the next couple of days I find it absolutely ridiculous that it wasn’t mentioned about that one lady who decided to screw it up for literally everybody and make tray hop like three spaces forward when she was being stupid and didn’t realize what was going on when literally everybody else even myself understood what was going on.
Someone that I know was in there and it was rigged. The mother was actually eliminated in red light green light but they cut it and let her back in
It will never not be hilarious that a TH-camr managed to recreate Squid Game better, with less time and less money while the big companies spat in his face.
(Now I am not sure why people feel the need to defend a multi-billion dollar corporation in the reply, but MrBeast did beat them to the idea, did it faster with less money, his version was better received by everyone, and nobody has sued him for injuries. Those are literally facts, don't make yourself look like a fool by making an useless reply.)
Tbf, that youtuber is like Jesus Christ or something and has like a bajillion dollars. Also it was really bad
Nah that version was just as bad, ending it on musical chairs was so lazy.
wait, who was spitting? Hope they saved their saliva for the cookies.
@@leikfroakies Jesus Christ ? Are you for real
The problem is you can't recreate charisma
Mr beast show was fun to watch
No amount of money can help on that
Squid game: a show about anti-capitalism and how rich people use the poor as toys
Nexflix: yes this is an excellent idea. Let's do it.
so....every game show ever?
netflix isn't paying its employees...@@LeapingRat
Squid game is a show about anti-communism and how the elite use the poor as toys.
If you think China and Russia are so great maybe you should move to one.
Mr Beast did it better.
@@LeapingRat why do you think every game show started with an anti-capitalism message
no bruh she was holding that squat for like 30-45 mins, they just made it seem shorter
when i saw it on netflix i thought it was one of those "reality" tv shows, but it was set up like a black mirror episode. The interviews were so over the top I thought for sure it was fake. but then i saw people not actually dying and i was like oh, it's just a shitty reality tv show for real
I physically recoiled during the dalgona game and this guy started sobbing cuz he almost didnt complete the game
He was physically shaking and sobbing trying to show the gameshow people his completed cut out.
I felt repulsed when the guy who answered the phone and got a burger, then everyone basically jumped his ass and stole his burger, tearing apart his platter.
I also got 2nd hand embarrassment watching each person pretend like they were actually shot.
My farts are better than Charlie’s farts 💨
this is reality show 101 lol its was ridiculous and hilarious
@@tapp.on.my.pic890 go away scambot. 🙄🚩
It's almost, *almost*, as if the original show had some kind of layered message hidden inside about the lengths people will go through for a life-changing smack of money. And also something about the people watching them for amusement, with some slight meta worked in for good measure.
Nah, must just be me. It's just the funny red light green light show with the funny mask guys with guns.
Dalgona epesode was gross. I watched it on mute. I can't imagine what pain the people editing this show went through.
I saw my mom watching this show and got so confused as to why the players were winding up jack-in-the-boxes and squeezing juice out of oranges
I’m better than Charles 💀☠️
Those were the dorm tests. Jack in the box was a risky one, and those who participated had to choose up to 3 people to eliminate, and one guy got an advantage for the next game, but he was the second to last one, and the last girl to open her box, ended up eliminating the guy with the advantage ,which was funny as hell. The orange one was a chore, and if they did it fast enough, the dorm got a “treat” which was a picnic, and they had to choose a partner to have the picnic with, but what they didn’t know, it turns out, that the person they had a picnic with, is their marbles partner, which was a clever way of doing it.
what 💀
@@RedLemonColathat sounds ridiculous 😂
My farts are better than Charlie’s farts 💨
No way that was in Bedford, I live like 20 mins away from there and it has been soo cold lately!
To be honest, if people signed up to that game show thinking it’d be “fun and rewarding” it’s their own faults. Even the aplication if you look it up is disturbingly vague on a lot of details. You’re competing for 4.5million, in a competition based off a traumatising tv show? And now they’re all only sueing and complaining cause they lost and want their cut.
Didnt they sign up for it tho? Isnt the whole point for the winner to get the money and everyone else loses? They signed up for a gameshow
@@lalaxy9099 Yeah but that’s what I’m saying, they signed up knowing it was gonna be traumatising.
As someone who was actually there as a contestant for 9 days, I can say nothing was scripted or trumped up. Bryton (432) was genuinely that way, the whole way through. The MIVs (interviews) were definitely baited or targeted questions but there was honestly NOTHING that was pre-planned or staged. I WILL say the final cut really edited out a LOT of context. I've been filling in gaps for people all week. The production were just extremely opportunistic at framing things well. For example, Dani and Kyle (the people who eliminated 200) were pulled out randomly to do chores, we had NO clue they were the ones selected to take that test. The next day is when they revealed the elimination, so it genuinely caught us off guard.
So, horrible framing ruined what could have been cool.
Oh shit, you're for real! Lieutenant and all, so cool! Were the people on it really the 'big players' or did production frame them that way? I've heard a lot of things generally get changed in the editing room, so I'm just curious about that aspect of things...
Hey that's pretty interesting. If you have any other behind the scenes info or interesting titbits I'd love to know more.
Yall really believe this dude lol
@@adonaimorton6782 Why would you not?
the irony of them trying to make a real version of it, and make a big profit with it is amazing. the whole message of the show is, "this situation is wrong"
@@LeapingRatthe situation was wrong because its a manifestation of capitalist exploitation of the desperate. The problem is that people were desperate enough to begin with, and the only amusement is from the suffering and exploitation. Commodified suffering.
@@LeapingRatIt’s a metaphor to greed and capitalism gone wrong, they just added in killing to show how bad the situation truly was.
@@alejandrorivas4585 Do you think thats what this new show was aiming for?
@@LeapingRat no, I just think the showrunners didn't understand the point of the original show, and are just tacking on a game show on a successful IP for money, accidentally doing the bad thing. I don't think intentions were malicious, just tone deaf and stupid. But thats kinda the problem no? Like the financial forces at play mean that you don't need malice to perpetuate systems of abuse and exploitation.
@@LeapingRat for real... some people are just really weak nowadays and im 21 🤣🤣
My favorite moment in this show had to be the guy trying his best not to vomit, for like 8 minutes during a competition.
It perfectly sums up this entire show.
I remember how cold it was during that cold snap, apparently they spent 30 minutes standing in the cold before shooting started and they wouldn't let people wear coats because they wanted them to be ready to start shooting at a moment's notice
According to some of the contestants, they had to freeze for up to 40 minutes at a time. The game took multiple hours to complete. The timer stopped when they had to freeze. People were cramping up severely and paramedics were constantly being called.
So? It's Squid Game. It's supposed to be like that to be enjoyable to watch.
@@yeetboi268damn this almost got me
@@yeetboi268 Good bait, man.
@@yeetboi268 it's a show not the real product 💀I'd say you were right if we were looking at a real-life, actual squid game meant for the entertainment of some rich people and performed by like a gang or sum shi but this is a netflix show tf
the point is Charlie was completely wrong in this video assuming the entire challenge took 5 min. Did you even watch his video?
@@yeetboi268
This is the prime example of what happens during a writer and actors strike. We get garbage reality shows like this.
@@BufferThunder It takes more than a month to make a show.
We were getting terrible reality shows long before any strikes and we'll continue getting terrible shows long afterwards.
Kdramas are thriving right now though (although i haven't particularly liked any outside of moving)
like 30% of the top 10 global on netflix are korean. I think Hollywood will continuously try to copy it lol
@@kelseylandon1224 That's because Netflix, who needed content during the strike, purchased a bunch of Korean shows. You will see less of them now that the strike is over.
We get crap before the strike and will continue to get crap after the strike.
Ashley did 301 soo dirty on the glass bridge.
That Person couldnt hold it anymore because they sometimes even had to stand still for 45 minutes because they had to film every angle
The fact that netflix is still here is nothing more than amazing
I’m better than Charles 💀☠️
They profited billions last quarter???
Kinda like fortnite
@@SussyGabrielOFFICIALhell no
Why would they not? They making billions lmao.
They could have broken the groups of 100. Do 1 full episodes with each group, fleshing the contestants like a "real" reality show and creating expectations with each episode. When the groups got smaller, they would join into one big group. You would have alliances from the previous groups, drama from the ones that already made groups and it will snowballed from there.
They didn't have to copy a 1 to 1 version. They just need it to do a reality show and dressed up with the squid games.
they could've even changed the games or rules to make it more "surprising" or exciting
@@ahleenah They actually did that.Let me quess, you didn't watched it?
Sounds like an exact copy of Physical100
I thought this has reality show elements?
@@ahleenah They did do that tho lol. I thought it was actually pretty entertaining.
That's quite the cliffhanger. I have no idea what he'll choose.
I’m glad you made this video. I felt like I was the only one. I didn't even finish the first episode.
Started watching this after Thanksgiving with my family. It's pretty amazing how fast we were all over it. Conclusion: "So this is just Squid Game again...? But worse?"
Edit: We were wondering why, during a game where that they needed to run, everyone had their hands in their pockets. Turns out it was fucking freezing.
I was wondering the same thing when I saw their hands in their pockets
I figured it would be so they could stop faster and not having to hold their arms in the freeze position
I watched the whole thing and i really think its fun bad. Alot of things happen and its really cliche and its just pretty funny.
I thought it was pretty decent. I liked it.
The production was done in England on a chilly day early 2023. Perhaps March or April.
I don't think it's fake I just think Netflix has purposefully hand picked each and everyone as mentally ill misfits from each other to create as much drama as possible.
Ego is a big thing as well trust me people can act and say really dumb things if they think they're better than everyone else, it's ironic because anyone playing for the money isn't going to win the money.
They need a different mindset to win. My money is on 18 (quiet, reserved, smart and watching in the background)
The casting isn't fake but the selection process certainly wasn’t random at all.
To add onto this they purposefully created challenges to further stir the drama by eliminating alliance members to create more drama.
I think it's in the terms to go out quietly if eliminated as you can see people quietly balling their eyes out hunched over.
So there was real stakes and loss on the line for certain.
It's not Squid game it's a psychological mind fxck.
I’m 100% better than Charles
Yeah they need all the brownie points they can get
Yea I think Charlie doesn't understand how reality tv editing works to make such narratives. All the people are purposefully chosen as big personalities and then they deliberately cut and pick out the most wild lines and scenes to emphasise and concentrate those personalities to make them over the top. Then they cut and paste voice lines, canned reactions to exaggerate each scene.
they literally wrote in plot points from squid game into the inter-personal contestant drama. a lot of coincidences for a non-scripted show.
it honestly watches like a high school musical version of a theatre show.
I felt like these people were not desperate enough.
Like not even a little bit.
It makes it even crazier to know that they had to stand still for up to 45 minutes at a time during red light green light
There was a tiktoker who was actually a part of it. That filming of Red Light Green Light took over 7 hours as there were long pauses between when the doll turned around and when it went back to green light to review whether people were eliminated or not. So that girl squatting was probably holding that for a good half an hour to an hour or longer each time
You should’ve mentioned the girl that gave up on the green light, red light because she couldn’t hearing the popping sounds of people getting eliminated. So she basically lays down and starts crying in a bawl
I thought she stopped because she, for whatever reason, decided to stop in a squatting position. If she were squatting for 30 some minutes, that would be hard to keep up.
He did mention her
She stopped because she was squatting down for 30 something minutes in between the red light, green light and her legs were hurting
9:26
Skill issue.
How the heck can they even hold a challenge event based on the most basic children's game and somehow still injure their contestants. At least in the original show, the contestants were at risk of getting fatally shot by the organizers if they lost the game.
That lawyer said, 'Do u feel like u had nerve damage?'
Yes
'Ok, nerve damage 🖋️'
🚶🏾♂️
The programme was filmed at Cardington Sheds. It's were the Ill fated R101 airship was built. Imagine sleeping in a 149,000 square foot metal tin during a UK cold spell with limited heating. That might possibly be the cause of the hypothermia.
I enjoy when studios look at an incredibly fucked up concept and say "what if we did it IRL though?"
dude that’s crazy I go to college in Bedford and go past the air base on the coach every day
Just saw the trailer today and I am glad that they decided to show how "dramatic" it's all supposed to be. Was already a hard pass, but thanks for letting me know it's so much worse than I even imagined.
Its actaully good tho
Yeah it's actually very entertaining. Wife and I love it. Dunno why this guy sounds so miserable.
It’s pretty entertaining tbh, but I can see why you might not want to watch it.
We know you all love the hit show "Please for the love of God don't make the baby squisher" so here tonight we're proud to announce that we have made the baby squisher!
"Lawsuits have been made against 'Baby Squisher Gameshow' which was inspired by the setting from 'Please for the love of God don't make the baby squisher' due to the alleged trauma caused to contestants when they witnessed babies being squished."
this is a certified Don’t Make the Torment Nexus classic
💯
So I personally know one of the contestants. He stated that for red light greenlight was not 5 mins and was actually 7 hrs. The robot would sing for 5 secs and the timer would only countdown during the singing part. When the robot was not singing, the timer would pause and they had to hold their position for 20 mins. They would review the footage to see if anyone moved during the game and they couldn't move while they reviewed the footage. Thats why people would dive, so they would be laying down instead of standing for 20 mins and thats why the girl who squatted got out, cuz she had to hold the squat for 20 mins. My friend said people got out because they had to go to the bathroom and couldn't hold it.
Did your friend have any screen time?
i was wondering why people kept laying/sitting down, that’s so dumb
No wonder that girl who was squatting got out, god that’s so awful
@@You2UbeForTV Oh yeah, my friend got quite a bit of screen time
Why the hell would they stretch out the game for so long??? That's fucked up
I saw a TikTok from a guy who claimed he was on the show. He said they were paused for 15 minutes and it was very cold in the hanger they were in.
My friend was watching this last night and telling me how terrible it was as she was watching. Netflix seems to be flailing around with no clue what to do lately.
Besides the inhumane treatment, the way this interpretation works is terrible. All the people they showed (the old man and mullet man) were my favorite. They were doing fine in the game until they give a literal random the opportunity to eliminate 3 people, which was both of them. They could not do anything about it.. so unfair..
What humane treatment?
Thats THE POINT of the game!
The game is supposed to be unfair. I don't think it is scripted btw.
Did you know that cats can be gay lesbian or bisexual :3
They got eliminated because the producers called out the old man to be taken back stage and the dude with the mullet went with him, at that moment their fate was sealed because now everybody became aware of their presence and when they both came back the most logical thing to assume is that they gained some type of advantage, which they technically did (candy bar), so in short the producers of the show screwed the old man and the dude with the mullet.
According to a girl who was on the show and talked about it on tiktok, red light green light took 8 hours to shoot in 24 degree weather.
It's so immersive, they actually kill their attendees!
"'Sympathy is a weakness', and it's right before Red Light, Green Light", is the funniest juxtaposition of things ever, probably even moreso if you dont know the context behind Squid Games. Like that's something you'd hear on Loiter Squad.
One of my distant family members was a participant in the challenge under the number 232 as the oldest contender at 69 so during Thanksgiving we all sat down and watched it. Most of it was pretty mid but he did the funniest shit and started a group among the contestants called the “gganbu gang”. This show may have been a poor attempt at expanding the Netflix monopoly but I was glad to see him have fun during all of it.
Yoo Rick was my fav, he was done dirty
Doc Rick was the best thing that happened to this show, he seemed like someone who really liked the original show, from all the people there he was the only person I got the feeling that he is there to have fun,to be more emersed in the Squid Game Universe, he remembered ddakji, I think he came up with Gganbu as their name, I wish all the best to him and his 18 grandchildren
Rick was cool but I didn’t forget what he said in episode 1 when said he was using his age to his advantage Rick was the real number 001 he’s the puppet master but I was sick when they booted him
Rick was a favorite for me aswell, i am very close to kitanning, PA. he was easy to root for
Aw I love Rick! I was so sad when him and the young guy got booted off. It was such an unfair way of doing things, but I'm glad he at least seemed to have fun.
I went to watch the first episode to see just how bad it was for myself, and you weren’t kidding. Someone really did cry when 200 was eliminated and that was just hilarious.
From what constestants have came out and said, they told contestants it would be 2hours of filming that ended up going for 7 hours and the wait times between red/green light would be up to 2min long and ended up having some wait times up to 30mins long in 32deg temps and they all had to open their jackets to expose they blow up packs through the white shirt. When people collapsed and needed medical attention, they announced the game is not paused and people had to hold position while the medics helped people.
Idk it just doesn't hit the same when the players know that their lives aren't on the line. Like the scene with the woman who quit bc she got tired of squatting in red light, green light really killed it for me.
That one was crazy because d so he was only like halfway squatting and there’s no way they had a red light for over a minute because the timer doesn’t stop running. So she was dumb enough to squat for no reason and weak enough either mentally or physically to not hold a half-squat for max like 45 seconds
Saw a girl on tiktok who was supposedly contestant 021 (emmashavingfun). She said it took like 6 hours to film red light green light and some of the pauses were having to hold their poses for 40 minutes at time, so that’s probably why they couldn’t stay in the squat. And that’s also why a lot of them were flopping or trying to get into a seated position…
@@shanedancer3895multiple sources saying that the some freezes actually lasted longer than half an hour.
@@callmecharlie4250 that does explain why she had to quit but that’s stupid as hell on the show creators’ side to pretend it all happened within 10 minutes and highlight her giving up because it definitely took away from the quality of the show
@@shanedancer3895that’s a good point. It probably would’ve been more interesting if they revealed that each pause was 10~40min to show how intense it was. Maybe a few shots of people shaking in place from an uncomfortable position, etc.
Making it seem like it’s a few seconds or a few minutes tops downplays the “intense gameshow” vibe they’re trying to go for.
They knew it was the cookie game. THey were just brought into the wrong room and then instead of doing what the TV show did and let them each pick their own cookie they were all dependent on whoever was in front of the line.
They also assumed that the 3rd game was going to be Tug-O-War but it turned out to be Battleship.
What's really dumb is they should've known marbles was coming up yet they all decided to pair with their best friends when told to pair up.
i actually liked the change to Battleship, tug of war is super strength dependent so the team with all the big guys on it would probably win.
To be honest they should have just done the MrBeast approach of random because everyone knows that the umbrella was the worst
yes the battleship game was also my favorite just because it was refreshing and not just a copy of original squid game :)
@@leeshapon It's been nice seeing them subvert expectations with the cookie game being a uniamous decision. Tug turning into battleship. I really wish the contestants were thinking while being told to 'pair' up. I would've been so suspicious of that.
@@coolwarfare Well it was sort of random. You didn't know which shape the person in the front of your line was going to pick.
This kinda felt like eleven minutes of moist not being able to believe that others aren't as nonchalant as he is
This reaction video is made me feel normal again was trippen for a sec ..You are spot on, my friend. I have just become a new subscriber because of your content. It's funny because when I got home, I was really ampdddd up to watch the new Netflix show, Squid Game Challenge. 🎉Initially, I thought it was already the second season, but it kept saying "coming soon." Come to find out i waisted 40min of my life that i want back! I think the whole point of the real show was the suspense and tragedy that viewers anticipated and had you at the edge of your seat. Anwyays I finally started watching episode one paused after player 200, I couldn't believe it. I wasn't sure if I was imagining things or if it was FR...- the worst show I've ever seen. I figured i search youtube to see if im really trip-pen ... and i come across this reaction !!👌👌👌🤝 hopefully season 2 is well thought like season 1 , but danm this got me losing hope and less interested in season 2 now! But again on point!
By the way guys, this is NOT season 2 of the show. This is just a little reality show they decided to make. The actually second season is coming out next year, I believe :)
I’m 100% better than Charles
@UnitTrace the original squid game creators are from south korea, this was a british show,,, so hopefully people aren’t gonna drop the original show. i can’t wait for season 2 (bc of a single actress lmao)
I found it funny bad. A guy got bullied into choosing umbrella and started crying about it. He also cried in the interview. Even when the match began, he spent the whole time crying and dry heaving while cutting the cookie that was literally drowning in his saliva. When he broke the cookie he just laid down and closed his eyes like he was preparing to get shot. Truly the funniest character in the series😂
Dude I was so disappointed when he and the guy bullying him both got kicked out. They were sooo funny
Like literally after episode 1 it gets me laughing each episode
this guy was honestly so cringe mannn
the show is good: its a standard reality show and you can skip the filler if you want. so nothing agaisnt it; everyone is being overly dramatic but intentionally so, so they appear in the final edit. i can understand not liking reality shows in general and essentially people pretending to be energetic and annoying to draw attention but its not bad in any way.
@@Mngalahadreality shows are objectively bad
As someone who used to watch a lot of reality tv, this sounds like every bad reality tv show ever now. Every bad stereotype of reality tv show. The whole I hAVe sO maNY STRugglES and shit
Hello can you please make a part 2, loved this
The annoying thing was that me and my family though that it was finally the sequel to the original squid game show, and we tried our best not to watch any trailer or spoilers. Then it finally it came out and boy we were dissapointed.
Sounds like your fault? Lmao it was clearly advertised as a reality show
@@pxsoul888 But it doesn't change the fact that it was a horrible reality show, if it was any good then we wouldn't complain of it not being the sequel.
Anytime there’s a good show, it will undoubtedly have a bad sequel.
I’m better than Charles 💀☠️
not really a sequel
Better saul call
No not true, most of the time they never release a sequel at all
Did you even watch the video😭
I'm surprised how connected everyone was to other people, as I personally relate to one of the (as of ep 6) still alive contestants, my Counseller got put into the show and is number 120
(honestly Im super glad 432 and 161 got out as according to him, they were pretty annoying and awful to the others, which is seen in the show thankfully)
Edit: it turns out he was given the umbrella and survived I was just told, this sounds so fake but I swear I am telling the truth, even though I am rooting for the kid and his mom since they seem nice, i am rooting for 120.
Personally, I believe you. One of my friends auditioned to be on the show and got accepted to be a participant. But she turned down the opportunity after finding out what the living conditions would be like during her final interview with one of the shows producers. She was smart enough to ask about living environment and accommodation during her virtual interview. She told me they told her that they have to stay in the building during the entirety of the shoot, that they couldn’t leave even during NON-filming hours, that the showers were co-ed & communal (but had individual stalls-at the very least), that they’d only be wearing the track suits and no other change of clothing even on NON-filming days, that their belongings would be confiscated (no phones, no books, no music, etc), and that they couldn’t order food from outside and they were to eat only what the show provided them witb to make the experience feel more “real” and “immersive”. She said when she heard all that she was like hell no and respectfully bowed out, lol. Good luck to the 1 person who ends up being the sole victor though.
Hate to break it to you, the stuff with the kid and his mom was super scripted.
"Another says she was eliminated when there were five seconds remaining on the clock at the end of the grueling nine hours. But as she waited to be escorted off the set, she says she noticed cameras pointed at a contestant who was playing with his mother. 'This kid is sitting at the finish line, he’s crying, and cameras are on him and he’s waiting for his mom. They added [more time] to the clock for her to get across because she was one of the people that they wanted to be in the show.'"
ehh you dont need to break it to me, i know it was super scripted, which is why im hoping my guy 120 wins, though he probably wont since they have such a script for it, bet they are going to make the kid win or smth since how it is working among other things.@@imightbebiased9311
@@unfiltered8407 Holy shit, that's crazy if true. Is it really the case that they're not on actor contracts, but participant contracts (only the winner gets money)?
@@MaskedDeath_ She told me that the only payment they’d receive was the cost of the flight being covered to (and from) the UK-where the show was to be filmed. That’s it. I was like damn.😕 And she also said the producer told her that the total filming time frame for the show would be like 1month. I honestly expected Netflix to have all the contestants staying in a nice hotel and that they’d be able to enjoy the experience as free vacation and explore the UK on non-filming days, then have to suit up and “put on a show” during filming days for the show. But that was definitely not the case. Netflix just wanted free labor for a fraction of the price and only 1-person (being the winner) walks away with a paycheck…a BIG one. I told my friend that Netflix is actually cheaper/stingier than I expected them to be given how much their stock & company is worth, lol. I also told her that she should make a TH-cam video on why she didn’t sign up to be a participant since she has all the email exchanges with the casting producers still saved in her inbox.
I SAW that they took the premise from Squid Game and turned it into an ACTUAL competition show (except, you know, MINUS THE ACTUAL SLAUGHTER OF CONTESTANTS).
I just SHOOK MY HEAD while saying, “Netflix, WTF ARE YOU DOING?!”
Damn, they really were pushing for realism in this one.
Yes I know it's a Reality TV show, and that's what makes it funnier tbh.
I'm still waiting for someone to have the balls to make a version with actual death.
@@wesleyfilmsyou have issues
@@wesleyfilmsLast game needs to be in the Colloseum in Rome
I mean, it was real. But they did make sure to film the most interesting people who signed up and edited out a lot to fit it all in to make it all fit.
Tbh i actually laughed at the dramatic parts because it was horribly bad and Dramatically funny that they were trying so hard to make it a reality type show 💀
I heard there were a lot of reshoots: i was confused as to why when that girl squatted for 8 seconds was crying and gave up and looks like they may have restarted multiple times
I saw one girl from the show say that at one point workers on set informed her that it was actually 24 degrees in there and they just have those thin track suits on
My very offline dad got so bored watching this that he went to watch the actual series. I think he liked it, he stayed awake the whole time and didn’t even make one dad noise.
What, he binge watched a whole tv series in one sitting without one dad noise? I cant even do that and I dont have kids yet.
@@TheSuperappelflap He even remembered to pause it before going to the bathroom
@@lizalizal damn, last time my dad acted like that is when we watched The Pacific together
@@TheSuperappelflap lord my grandad has the box set, gonna borrow it as i've not seen it in years
@@aminyashed6824 preach
I remember when the casting call went out I thought “Why not?” But decided against it after realizing I was planning on joining the service instead, I have never been more glad about my past choices
You think the military is going to be any better? It's even more hyper-capitalist than the squid games, with an even higher chance of injury.
@@justinwescott8125 I’ve been in for about 8 months now, made great friends, got a steady job, in great shape, and over all improved as a person. Yeah, I’d say it’s better than this
One of my friends auditioned to be on the show and got accepted to be a participant. But she turned down the opportunity after finding out what the living conditions would be like during her final interview with one of the shows producers. She was smart enough to ask about living environment and accommodation during her virtual interview. She told me they told her that they have to stay in the building during the entirety of the shoot, that they couldn’t leave even during NON-filming hours, that the showers were co-ed & communal (but had individual stalls-at the very least), that they’d only be wearing the track suits and no other change of clothing even on NON-filming days, that their belongings would be confiscated (no phones, no books, no music, etc), and that they couldn’t order food from outside and they were to eat only what the show provided them with to make the experience feel more “real” and “immersive”. She said when she heard all that she was like hell no and respectfully bowed out, lol. Good luck to the 1 person who ends up being the sole victor though.
@@justinwescott8125I’m pretty sure they were being sarcastic and saying that the show’s crude living conditions, behind the scene, is like signing up for the military….they didn’t actually join the military.
@@justinwescott8125 Sure buddy. Your tinfoil hat looks stupid on you.
I decided I wanted to watch this too to see how funny bad it is and when 6 minutes in I heard someone say they had an advantage because they could see things before they happen and know when someone is lying, I knew I was in for a treat
I got called to go on this - I guess I’m glad I hadn’t carried on with the application 😂
If they just let it be and made it an actual authentic gameshow it might have been half decent.
That's what this is lol
@@TacoYoMaMano. That's not what this is. A typical game show is not scripted. At least not to the level of this new squid game
@@RedLemonColait's not even close lmao. Game show do not have forced drama and personality like it's a reality tv show. You don't see people talked like an anime character in wheels of fortune
Ur right it isn't a gameshow my bad thats trivia like jepordy lol, it's a competition show. And I honestly don't care if it's scripted most are anyways, I'm there to just see who wins and the drama just like in the OG squid game series.
@@hahalerymc6878 yeah, but now the OG Comment sounds worse because of it lol, who tf wants to watch a trivia show for squid games, ill rather take a fake reality TV show with competition.
The shapes in the cookies challenge should have been hidden. They should let them choose a mystery gate and then give them time to change. Once the players picked their line, that's when they reveal the shape.
Poor dude who picked umbrella almost had a panic attack
Like how Mr beast did it lol
@@KaiAshbornyeah :(
Or just pick from a basket for each team honestly
@@davidkimpton6775 yeah the producers wanted to make everything dramatic even at the expense of the contestants health its sad honestly