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The character development for Sae-Byeok is incredible, when we first met her she was the kind of person who wouldnt have hesitated to hurt someone for her means but now her being the one to tell Gi-hun to not kill someone just speaks how much she has grown!!
idk, she never purposely put anyone in her way or hurt anyone to get ahead though, if you think about it. She never pushed anyone in her way or even hurt anyone in the night killings. She only threatened the gangster, and that was within reason. But she opened up to gihun and jiyeong so much :(
@@angietoonz6605 she wasn't exactly a saint either.....sis was working for the thug before and became a pickpocket, which actually casued the first issue for the MC, and she almost killed that dude who scammed her so......👀
@@michelleimogu9296 we don’t know that she killed anyone while working with Deok-Su and she didn’t almost kill the scammer, she threatened him. There’s still really no proof that Sae-Byeok would have ever killed someone.
The game was never fair. A lot of people conflate fairness with what the Front Man said about equality. He was referring to equality vis a vis the players. Meaning, no player held any advantage over another player. He wasn't referring to the relationship between the players and the organisers of the game. That part was unfair from the get go.
@@VMYeahVN I think you are probably right that it has more to do with VIP betting, because the games themselves were of course not particularly fair. 1. In red light green light players start different distances from the finish with no mental preparation for the idea that if you move you literally die 2. For Dalgona, some players got the frickin umbrella, a shape several times harder than all the others (our main character likely being the only one to survive that choice) There are some lesser things to say about each of the other games. But the biggest one is absolutely that damn glass bridge. By comparison one could argue that the first couple game were completely fair. Afterall, players chose their own shape, with at least the knowledge of the shape, and had a practical chance to survive (if they licked it probably). But the glass bridge where they were so intent on you having no way to know the right answer that they turned the lights off at the end; that is unarguably a bs game mostly intended to be random gambling (though it made for an intense episode and worked well for the show). And that goes without the way it blew up. As a game designer myself, no game can, or necessarily should, be totally equal. But that glass stepping stone one just pisses me off.
Which in a way is why Sae-byeok's death is on her for keeping it to herself. She should have informed the guards, say that out of equality between players, she has to be healed so she stands on equal ground with the other two finalists especially as it was the organizers' doing that she got hurt, not doing so would mean it is a rigged game. Turned that way, they would have been forced to treat her.
@@StephOMacRules honestly they wouldn't have done anything. they've shown that they don't care if players die outside of the games. aka the fight that broke out during the third(?) episode when they were supposed to be sleeping. that wasn't fair at all, but they let it happen anyways. and because the glass hitting sae-byeok was an "accident", they would argue that against her defense. and the way the last game is set up, it's obvious it's meant for a one on one. so it's not on her at all. the reality is that the game IS unfair, regardless of what the front man said.
While ep 6 was heartbreaking and got me teary eyed this episode completely broke me. I didn't realize how attached I got to Sae-Byeok until that scene 😭
What John said at the beginning, “The goalpost of fairness moves every time”… I felt like that was kind of an underlying theme of the whole show. Like- in a capitalist society you’re told if you just play by the rules and work hard, you’ll succeed, but often the rules of the game are changed on you, or are tricky- like how Sang-Woo won against Ali at marbles. He made it clear that he technically “played by the rules.” But it was so underhanded, because Ali didn’t strictly interpret the rules to include trickery. As Greg said, it’s a facade that it’s fair. Just part of what I think makes this show so fascinating.
This isn't about capitalism per se and more about human nature and greed as you can see these same issues play out in socialist and communist countries.... Nature is brutal, it's survival of the fittest and peoples will to survive and succeed will trump anything else, even your friends and family which is what is shown throughout the show.
“I wanted to write a story that was an allegory or fable about modern capitalist society, something that depicts an extreme competition, somewhat like the extreme competition of life. But I wanted it to use the kind of characters we’ve all met in real life,”
@@davidvanhorn2493 I did know that the director wrote the script for this 10 years ago, which kept getting rejected, and- being a writer- had to sell his laptop at one point because he was flat broke. So I didn’t know he said what you quoted, but the capitalist critique really came though for me, and the laptop story made me feel like it was def on purpose and not just me reading into it.
I still can't get over how good Squid Game is. Like I'm pretty sure all of us expected it to be just hype. I mean it's a Netflix show! But I really hope it gets tons of prices
@@JaySewani I think that show is based on a manga? There are just too many Japanese manga, anime, and movie based on this death/survivor genre. Japanese content creators have become too complacent in their work and lost their mojo in this genre. In my humble opinion, Battle Royal deserves a credit, but SQ likely has perfected the genre with well balanced character development and sprinkles of enough gore, etc. Now, I gotta go and do some researches if body organ harvesting is a real thing in South Korea. So many South Korean movie seemed to use this theme and I am curious if this happens in South Korea for real or not.
Idk Netflix k-dramas are usually pretty good: crash landing on you, kingdom, king:eternal, it’s okay not to be okay, etc. those were all hits in Korea and w/ international fans. I think audiences that weren’t used to K-dramas were the ones mostly surprised by the show actually being good
If Sae-Byeok didn't get injured, she would have won. She's the only one left who actually knew how to fight, especially with a knife. What a heart wrenching and incredible show 🥺
I really hope this show is not ignored at Awards season, the actors for Gi-hun,Sae-Byeok, and Sang-Woo all deserve consideration. Not to mention the set design, sound, writing, and direction.
Well it's America's fucking awards, they don't really appreciate foreign art , But seeing how much eyes this show has , I think it will win if not dominating the awards
@@klausweasley , It might deserve acting awards but US award shows have a tendency to ignore these kinds of shows. Still Game of Thrones was a show that focused on greed, violence and nudity with great acting but won quite a bit so maybe there's a chance.
The actor who plays the role of Front Man is Byung Hun Lee, among his other roles, he played Storm Shadow in the 1st and 2nd entries in G.I. Joe film series, and he also played the role of T-2000 in Terminator: Genisys back in 2015.
2:27 even lee jung jae (Gi-hun) said in the interviews that that scene was extreme for him...not physically but mentally...excited for your last ep reaction🤩
Your commentary on how Gihun and Sangwoo start off in the same place is spot on --- Gihun and Sangwoo have trajectories that are foils to each other, but have a similar origin. They both come from an impoverished background; both handle this differently. Gihun resisted capitialism (ie the riots); Sangwoo engaged in it. The point of this shared background is essentially that, both Gihun and Sangwoo, who react differently to their same lot in life, have ended up at the same place, because upward mobility, and throwing off that background of economic inequality, is impossible within capitalism.
It's her FIRST? Holy shit. If she's this good in her first role... I can only imagine her agent's phone is blowing up with people trying to hire her now.
@@tiawilliams5690 I think he used to be a model when he was younger but now he's kinda like Justin Bieber who just kinda models on the side because he's a celebrity.
If you’re ever impaled with something like Sae-Byeok (and you’re not in a tournament fighting for your life): *DONT PULL IT OUT* the object prevents you from bleeding out and removing it without medical supplies + attention near-by is essentially a death sentence.
I mean even if you are fighting in a tournament for your life better to not pull it out. You will probably die in the tournament but pulling it out guarentees you dying where in the tournament you might have like a 1% chance to survive with something in your body. But thats still better as 0%.
I dont know if anyone said this in the comments but it's funny how JiYeon made the reference to the movie with Lee Byung Hun "lets go to the mohito and have a maldives" or something, and she says his name. AND he happens to be the actor playing the Frontman. I bet people in Korea watching that reveal scene were FREAKING OUT. Btw, youre one of the only reactors that actually recognized him, which i find really odd cause he's famous even in the west, especially amongst pop-culture connoisseurs - as Stormshadow
my theory is the frontman was a cop, hence he knew a lot about police procedural (besides having a cop bro also). 2 things then come to mind: either he's still a cop deep deep undercover(could be cool, but highly unlikely since the game observes all and sees all)..OR.. he was a cop heavy in debt just like the rest and got pulled into the game. and if he had won, that means he would have killed his competitors, and having tasted such power over people, perhaps he wanted more. The oldman saw this, recognized his potential n manipulated him to serve. and the rest happened just like to that jedi apprentice long ago, in a galaxy far away.
@Sariel the show never established frontman is a cop, but twice it hinted that he could be a cop.. once when he first became aware of and searched for the intruder in his room(look at how he held his gun like a cop would), and in this episode when he shared knowledge of bullets in a cop's gun.
Even though I saw the brother plot twist miles away, that reveal still managed to shock me because I was like "LEE BYUNG HUN?!" Who ISN'T in this show???
The explosion was there to kill anyone who was still on a platform. There possibly was a switch to turn it off since it wasn't necessary but the front man was gone chasing his bro
... Ngl you got me with that intro. After seeing all these reactions everywhere, I actually took a second look at the vid's title, you sneaky bastards.
Vowel combinations: ae -> sounds like eh (like the "e" in "set", eo -> sounds like uh (like the "u" in "bun"). Sae-byeok -> "seh byuhk". The "a" in Sang-woo is NOT like the "a" in apple, but an "ah". Glad you are enjoying the show!
Everybody has been stating about the phone battery. Remember that they are only there for a couple of days. If he only turns the phone on for a few minutes each night he would have phone for a long time. I once forgot a charger on a business trip and only used my phone for a few minutes to check emails every night and it lasted 4 days until I could go buy a charger.
The way Sae-Byeok died really gutted me bc (just like you guys) I just felt like it wasn’t fair that SHE got injured and became vulnerable I REALLY wanted her to win from the beginning (w/ Gi-hun) and when she died there were definitely tears
In this episode I still hate Sang-Woo that he killed the girl. I don't think Jun-Ho is dead. He could survive easily since he was shot on the side not on the center (heart) and landed on the ocean. Plus I don't see any blood or his body in the ocean. When I watch this episode for the first time I'm shocked that the Front Man is actually Jun-Ho's brother In-ho
He could survive the gunshot, but I like how they leave it open to question, remembering that he now is bleeding out in the ocean. That means.... Sharks, I'm just sayin...
I don’t think Jun-Ho had enough time to take a deep breath, or even think about it. Plus, he didn’t surface, and if he did, the In-Ho would have seen it right?
It crazy how In-Ho went from winning the game to being an integral part of the game as the Front Man. Yet when away from the game he live this pretence of a simple life style in a teeny tiny apartment. He must not have shared any of his winnings with his mom and brother.
Let’s be honest guys…. Sang Woos character was the best written, and the most realistic character in the show, it’s obvious we would kill/betray to live
The actor who plays Jun Ho said the same thing about Sangwoo's character, that he is the most realistic. Every single one of us is selfish to a point; it's always about "me". Now imagine how much more selfish we would all be in a situation like this.
@@SwiftieCatLover I mean if you have to pick between killing somebody or dying yourself I think its pretty obvious what most off us would pick. Especially if killing somebody has no downside in that you get to jail or something like that.
@@jeltevl8868 that’s why I never hated Sangwoo. He’s a selfish ass for sure, but pretty realistic considering how selfish people are in the real world.
Squid Game needs to win tons of Emmys. Not just for the director/writer and the actors but the cinematography, music score, editing, set lighting and whatever other awards there are. The production is so amazing!
The series is in a conundrum. It can either submit to International Emmy which will be an easy win for the show or enter American Emmy which will lose to series like The Crown.
This show reminds me of the movie The Host. It starts off violent and rough, and just keeps getting worse until despair, loss, and barely surviving is all that's left. I might be wrong but seems like that's a pretty common theme in Korean storytelling.
This episode also killed me. Seeing Sae-Byeok’s character development throughout the show and then seeing that the glass got her. I was so upset. I was rooting for her the whole way to get out and reunite with her family.
I watched I Saw the Devil and it was CRAZY! I felt so bad for his character. Like dude all this revenge and look what came of it, smh. I think I have The Good, The Bad, and The Weird on one of my movie lists and I will for sure try to watch it soon!
@@LiveANoursishedLife girl it took me 2 attempts to get through I Saw the Devil, but man was it worth it! Says a lot about revenge and and how it might not help with the grieving process in the end. Yes!!! I hope you enjoy it, it’s so much fun!!
Fun Easter egg a friend of mine pointed out: in Episode 6 when the girls are talking, the movie referencing mojitos on the beach is "Inside Man" and she says Lee Byung-hun's name as the star of the film!
They just seem like good human beings in general. Cultured, intelligent af, empathetic, i mean i am not ashamed to admit that they are both miles above me.
I honestly thought saebyok would win, cuz that would be the most satisfying ending, she's a better person than both finalists her being killed was one of the most difficult scenes to watch for me, since I actually had hopes she'd make it somehow
Thanks for the reactions! I watched the drama again after your reaction after finding things I've missed. :) Saebyeog, girl who got hurt by glass explosion, her name means Dawn. :)
1:19 i just realized how good that shot is of the pan up of the mountain as the detective is running towards it, symbolic of this insurmountable force of the squid games that this one man is attempting to go against.
can't wait to see you react to the finale..i have seen it and yeah I can't wait. it's like the what's in the box moment..everyone wants to know but when you know you wish you didn't know.
For LBH fans, like me, it was so damn easy to recognize his voice, specially when speaking english. When he took the mask off it was just a confirmation
Omg Roshi! Did you do something different with your hair? Lmao realistically Sang-Woo has the right idea at some points, he just goes about it so wrong every time.
There is a flash back to them as children in the very first episode, and i've watched it a couple of times and have a bit of an interesting interpretation of it. I think it shows the main character was the leader of their little group of school friends, he used to be the one that always won their playground games, he was the cool one, that the others looked up to. But in adult life, they've all grown apart and the main character grew up to become a bit of a low-life, where as his biggest adversary as a kid, the number 2 kid in their group, grew up to go to Buisness school and become top of his class. It creates an interesting dynamic between the two in this series, as the main character used to have so much promise as a kid, he might feel like he's waisted his life and those were his best years, were he was the man others looked up to. In converse, his rival growing up, who was always number 2 in their group, might have always been a little jealous of him. Might be part of why he looks at him in a kinda of self important, i'm superior kind of way.
Most people thought that the glass explosion was just a celebration pyrotechnics, I believe it was programed to explode once the timer ended to kill all the remaining players.
If Sangwoo wanted to actually win though wouldn't he have killed Gihun while his back was turned? Then that would've left him to go up against an already dying Saebyeok. So you have to wonder why he decided to kill Saebyeok instead...mercy killing maybe? Or maybe he didn't realize how injured she was and just went for it
There will def be a season 2… this was too popular to not have another season. Plus it’s listed as season 1 not as a limited series. I think we’ll see Jun ho again and he’ll team up with Gi hun to take down the games and the vip’s together.
I sure hope so! If they really wanted to kill Junho off, they would've. In-ho would have shot him in the head, as he did to others all throughout the season. Plus, he was essentially hit in the shoulder and only hit the water. No thud. No loud crack to indicate he hit his head and died. The show loved to show off blood, gore, and dead bodies. I doubt he's dead. That's just my two cents. Haha. ♡
Im just proud that it just wasnt me who recognized in-ho as storm shadow!! I was watching that scene with a friend and told he me no but look at us intellectuals being right huh!!! ☺️
The explosion of the bridge was not for a celebration... it was gonna explode because the time run out so if there was people still in those they had to fall since they failed... if they had finish sooner they would have move away from that bridge by the time it had exploded but since they barely make it it has consequences ... there is nothing unfair... Let's not forget that they are there from their free will... go somewhere else if you thing you can earn more than 40b won by playing 6 games (dangerous games... though game nonetheless =D)
First time watching it in English dub I loved it but during the marble scene I kept asking My lady who never saw still hasn’t seen a lick of the show who she thought would die and what not just having fun and the reveals and twist were more jaw dropping then sad where as watching it now in Korean with English sub and just getting a better sense of everything this episode got me more then 6!!!!! The second time watching this show seeing Gi-Hun sobbing on the mans shoulder made me sad she’d a few tears yes but seeing Sae-Byeok go out like that got me hard. The relationship her and Gi-hun build is so genuine. Really do love the cast they got for this show. It’ll be a constant rewatch just like true detective season 1 for me time is like a flat circle alright alright alright 🤣
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Finished the show myself couple days ago and yesterday watched all your episode reactions
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@@kieffkipkeep sweet home its kinda ehhh
Frontman name is Lee Byung Hun
I still can't get over this being the actor who played Sae-Byeok's first acting role.. she was fantastic this entire show 🙌🏻
Actually her name is Hoyeon Jung
@@kampurin ok
@@kampurin ok
@@kampurin 🤓🤓
@@kampurin ok
Gi-Hun went from calling her a thief and loathing her at the beginning, to caring so much about her and cried hard for her at the end
The character development for Sae-Byeok is incredible, when we first met her she was the kind of person who wouldnt have hesitated to hurt someone for her means but now her being the one to tell Gi-hun to not kill someone just speaks how much she has grown!!
idk, she never purposely put anyone in her way or hurt anyone to get ahead though, if you think about it. She never pushed anyone in her way or even hurt anyone in the night killings. She only threatened the gangster, and that was within reason. But she opened up to gihun and jiyeong so much :(
@@angietoonz6605 she wasn't exactly a saint either.....sis was working for the thug before and became a pickpocket, which actually casued the first issue for the MC, and she almost killed that dude who scammed her so......👀
@@michelleimogu9296 I know, I'm only referring to the game though.
@@michelleimogu9296 we don’t know that she killed anyone while working with Deok-Su and she didn’t almost kill the scammer, she threatened him. There’s still really no proof that Sae-Byeok would have ever killed someone.
she was an alright character , her character development wasn’t all that great
Sang-Woo really just took a power nap for a few minutes, then woke up with that "Time to slash some throats!" energy.
He woke up and chose violence lol
The game was never fair. A lot of people conflate fairness with what the Front Man said about equality. He was referring to equality vis a vis the players. Meaning, no player held any advantage over another player. He wasn't referring to the relationship between the players and the organisers of the game. That part was unfair from the get go.
I initially took it as he's referring to the fairness between the game and the VIPs betting on the game. I think your take is accurate too though.
Well, each had advantages depending on the game
@@VMYeahVN I think you are probably right that it has more to do with VIP betting, because the games themselves were of course not particularly fair.
1. In red light green light players start different distances from the finish with no mental preparation for the idea that if you move you literally die
2. For Dalgona, some players got the frickin umbrella, a shape several times harder than all the others (our main character likely being the only one to survive that choice)
There are some lesser things to say about each of the other games. But the biggest one is absolutely that damn glass bridge. By comparison one could argue that the first couple game were completely fair. Afterall, players chose their own shape, with at least the knowledge of the shape, and had a practical chance to survive (if they licked it probably). But the glass bridge where they were so intent on you having no way to know the right answer that they turned the lights off at the end; that is unarguably a bs game mostly intended to be random gambling (though it made for an intense episode and worked well for the show). And that goes without the way it blew up.
As a game designer myself, no game can, or necessarily should, be totally equal. But that glass stepping stone one just pisses me off.
Which in a way is why Sae-byeok's death is on her for keeping it to herself. She should have informed the guards, say that out of equality between players, she has to be healed so she stands on equal ground with the other two finalists especially as it was the organizers' doing that she got hurt, not doing so would mean it is a rigged game. Turned that way, they would have been forced to treat her.
@@StephOMacRules honestly they wouldn't have done anything. they've shown that they don't care if players die outside of the games. aka the fight that broke out during the third(?) episode when they were supposed to be sleeping. that wasn't fair at all, but they let it happen anyways. and because the glass hitting sae-byeok was an "accident", they would argue that against her defense. and the way the last game is set up, it's obvious it's meant for a one on one. so it's not on her at all. the reality is that the game IS unfair, regardless of what the front man said.
While ep 6 was heartbreaking and got me teary eyed this episode completely broke me. I didn't realize how attached I got to Sae-Byeok until that scene 😭
Yeah she's really cute
@@BluEx22329 creep
@@slamyourheadin9449 lol? how is he a creep? the actress is like 24 years old...
@@Nominenobody 27 actually
What John said at the beginning, “The goalpost of fairness moves every time”… I felt like that was kind of an underlying theme of the whole show. Like- in a capitalist society you’re told if you just play by the rules and work hard, you’ll succeed, but often the rules of the game are changed on you, or are tricky- like how Sang-Woo won against Ali at marbles. He made it clear that he technically “played by the rules.” But it was so underhanded, because Ali didn’t strictly interpret the rules to include trickery. As Greg said, it’s a facade that it’s fair.
Just part of what I think makes this show so fascinating.
This isn't about capitalism per se and more about human nature and greed as you can see these same issues play out in socialist and communist countries.... Nature is brutal, it's survival of the fittest and peoples will to survive and succeed will trump anything else, even your friends and family which is what is shown throughout the show.
@@crackajacka87 pretty sure the director said it was about capitalism
“I wanted to write a story that was an allegory or fable about modern capitalist society, something that depicts an extreme competition, somewhat like the extreme competition of life. But I wanted it to use the kind of characters we’ve all met in real life,”
@@crackajacka87 The entire show is a metaphor for capitalism.
@@davidvanhorn2493 I did know that the director wrote the script for this 10 years ago, which kept getting rejected, and- being a writer- had to sell his laptop at one point because he was flat broke. So I didn’t know he said what you quoted, but the capitalist critique really came though for me, and the laptop story made me feel like it was def on purpose and not just me reading into it.
The Front Man actor name was an easter egg on episode 6 when the two women were discussing about enjoying Mojito in Maldives.
Oh shit you’re right Ji-Young actually mentioned him
How? Is it a movie reference?
@@carlos10571 yes, it is lee byung hun(the front man)'s famous line from "Inside Men(내부자들).
"Let's have Maldives at Mojito."
Wow i never realized that until now
Sae-Byeok’s character arc was incredible
bro what💀, her character arc wasn’t incredible
I still can't get over how good Squid Game is. Like I'm pretty sure all of us expected it to be just hype. I mean it's a Netflix show! But I really hope it gets tons of prices
Overall Squid game is great characters are better but Alice in borderland has so many more interesting games
@@buhmacseries6322 Loooool
@@JaySewani I think that show is based on a manga? There are just too many Japanese manga, anime, and movie based on this death/survivor genre. Japanese content creators have become too complacent in their work and lost their mojo in this genre. In my humble opinion, Battle Royal deserves a credit, but SQ likely has perfected the genre with well balanced character development and sprinkles of enough gore, etc. Now, I gotta go and do some researches if body organ harvesting is a real thing in South Korea. So many South Korean movie seemed to use this theme and I am curious if this happens in South Korea for real or not.
What you mean it's a Netflix show? Netflix have good shows
Idk Netflix k-dramas are usually pretty good: crash landing on you, kingdom, king:eternal, it’s okay not to be okay, etc. those were all hits in Korea and w/ international fans. I think audiences that weren’t used to K-dramas were the ones mostly surprised by the show actually being good
If Sae-Byeok didn't get injured, she would have won. She's the only one left who actually knew how to fight, especially with a knife.
What a heart wrenching and incredible show 🥺
With Gi-hun. 😥
That bully guy almost killed her in episode 4 though she had a knife in that fight also...
@@shashankkhadke8328 it was dark and she could barely see
@@allyymartinez204 bully guy didn't wear Night vision goggles either so I don't understand what you meant.
@@shashankkhadke8328 are you forgetting that he was a whole gang boss that easily shanked people the whole show☠️
I really hope this show is not ignored at Awards season, the actors for Gi-hun,Sae-Byeok, and Sang-Woo all deserve consideration. Not to mention the set design, sound, writing, and direction.
Well it's America's fucking awards, they don't really appreciate foreign art ,
But seeing how much eyes this show has , I think it will win if not dominating the awards
@@spunkymaniac9312 If "Parasite" can win Oscars, "Squid Game" can win Emmys.
@@klausweasley , It might deserve acting awards but US award shows have a tendency to ignore these kinds of shows. Still Game of Thrones was a show that focused on greed, violence and nudity with great acting but won quite a bit so maybe there's a chance.
This show actually won 6 Emmy’s. That just how good this show is.
The actor who plays the role of Front Man is Byung Hun Lee, among his other roles, he played Storm Shadow in the 1st and 2nd entries in G.I. Joe film series, and he also played the role of T-2000 in Terminator: Genisys back in 2015.
Yeah my father figure it out by just looking at the back of his head
He was awesome in I saw the devil too
and Red 2
@@irwan4726 oh yeah, he played Han in that one and he was a complete bada*s.
I somehow guessed it in episode 6 when they mentioned his name. It would make a lot of sense with the international audience to have a familiar face.
2:27 even lee jung jae (Gi-hun) said in the interviews that that scene was extreme for him...not physically but mentally...excited for your last ep reaction🤩
Your commentary on how Gihun and Sangwoo start off in the same place is spot on --- Gihun and Sangwoo have trajectories that are foils to each other, but have a similar origin. They both come from an impoverished background; both handle this differently. Gihun resisted capitialism (ie the riots); Sangwoo engaged in it. The point of this shared background is essentially that, both Gihun and Sangwoo, who react differently to their same lot in life, have ended up at the same place, because upward mobility, and throwing off that background of economic inequality, is impossible within capitalism.
What is amazing is the character Kang Sae-byeok play by Jung Hoyeon is a model. This is her first acting gig.
Lee Jung-Jae, the lead, is also a model.
It's her FIRST? Holy shit. If she's this good in her first role... I can only imagine her agent's phone is blowing up with people trying to hire her now.
@@tiawilliams5690 The difference is that Jung-Jae have been a top Korean actor for a very long time.
This is her first acting job
@@VMYeahVN She won Asia's version of America's Next Top Model.
@@tiawilliams5690 I think he used to be a model when he was younger but now he's kinda like Justin Bieber who just kinda models on the side because he's a celebrity.
If you’re ever impaled with something like Sae-Byeok (and you’re not in a tournament fighting for your life):
*DONT PULL IT OUT* the object prevents you from bleeding out and removing it without medical supplies + attention near-by is essentially a death sentence.
I mean even if you are fighting in a tournament for your life better to not pull it out.
You will probably die in the tournament but pulling it out guarentees you dying where in the tournament you might have like a 1% chance to survive with something in your body. But thats still better as 0%.
the whole korean cast did a marvelous job. award-winning performances all around.
I dont know if anyone said this in the comments but it's funny how JiYeon made the reference to the movie with Lee Byung Hun "lets go to the mohito and have a maldives" or something, and she says his name. AND he happens to be the actor playing the Frontman. I bet people in Korea watching that reveal scene were FREAKING OUT. Btw, youre one of the only reactors that actually recognized him, which i find really odd cause he's famous even in the west, especially amongst pop-culture connoisseurs - as Stormshadow
He is actually one of my fav actors out of Asia.
my theory is the frontman was a cop, hence he knew a lot about police procedural (besides having a cop bro also).
2 things then come to mind: either he's still a cop deep deep undercover(could be cool, but highly unlikely since the game observes all and sees all)..OR..
he was a cop heavy in debt just like the rest and got pulled into the game. and if he had won, that means he would have killed his competitors, and having tasted such power over people, perhaps he wanted more. The oldman saw this, recognized his potential n manipulated him to serve. and the rest happened just like to that jedi apprentice long ago, in a galaxy far away.
I thought the show established that he is a cop.
Bruh some theories that in the future season the guy in the terminal(the actor who played in train to busan) is one of the major villain in the series
It shows in his file that he was a cop!
@@michelliechellie wait fr??
@Sariel
the show never established frontman is a cop, but twice it hinted that he could be a cop.. once when he first became aware of and searched for the intruder in his room(look at how he held his gun like a cop would), and in this episode when he shared knowledge of bullets in a cop's gun.
Even though I saw the brother plot twist miles away, that reveal still managed to shock me because I was like "LEE BYUNG HUN?!" Who ISN'T in this show???
The explosion was there to kill anyone who was still on a platform. There possibly was a switch to turn it off since it wasn't necessary but the front man was gone chasing his bro
It's one of the best shows I have ever seen as it makes you absolutely obsessed with it!!!!
Ever seen LOST? Similar addictiveness
@@buhmacseries6322 true, I love GOT, but some of the decisions they made in the last season were not it
... Ngl you got me with that intro. After seeing all these reactions everywhere, I actually took a second look at the vid's title, you sneaky bastards.
I got into watching reaction compilations and thought I hit one by accident
lol at the "dos cavasos" and "yaboyroshi" reference at the beginning
Vowel combinations: ae -> sounds like eh (like the "e" in "set", eo -> sounds like uh (like the "u" in "bun"). Sae-byeok -> "seh byuhk". The "a" in Sang-woo is NOT like the "a" in apple, but an "ah". Glad you are enjoying the show!
That's Lee Byung Hun as Storm Shadow from G.I. Joe and Han from Red 2
Everybody has been stating about the phone battery. Remember that they are only there for a couple of days. If he only turns the phone on for a few minutes each night he would have phone for a long time. I once forgot a charger on a business trip and only used my phone for a few minutes to check emails every night and it lasted 4 days until I could go buy a charger.
The way Sae-Byeok died really gutted me bc (just like you guys) I just felt like it wasn’t fair that SHE got injured and became vulnerable
I REALLY wanted her to win from the beginning (w/ Gi-hun) and when she died there were definitely tears
John: " you better get promoted when you return"
Front man: "bold of you to assume he will be retuning"
> The masked guy being Lee Byung-Hun was a more surprising reveal than him being the policeman’s brother lmao
In this episode I still hate Sang-Woo that he killed the girl. I don't think Jun-Ho is dead. He could survive easily since he was shot on the side not on the center (heart) and landed on the ocean. Plus I don't see any blood or his body in the ocean. When I watch this episode for the first time I'm shocked that the Front Man is actually Jun-Ho's brother In-ho
He could survive the gunshot, but I like how they leave it open to question, remembering that he now is bleeding out in the ocean. That means.... Sharks, I'm just sayin...
I don’t think Jun-Ho had enough time to take a deep breath, or even think about it. Plus, he didn’t surface, and if he did, the In-Ho would have seen it right?
I mean the frontman was hitting headshots the whole show until it was his brother so I'm sure it was to give him a chance
I hated sang woo for betraying ali but after this scene, I was laughing when sang woo died
It crazy how In-Ho went from winning the game to being an integral part of the game as the Front Man. Yet when away from the game he live this pretence of a simple life style in a teeny tiny apartment. He must not have shared any of his winnings with his mom and brother.
I believe that Ji-Yeong actually referenced Byung Hun Lee in episode 6 so it’s really meta he’s in acting as a character in the show.
Romanized K’s in Korean are more like a “G”.
Kimchi stuck has a K, but really it’s more Gimchi.
Well, it’s more like at the beginning it sounds like a G but at the end of a word it sound more like a K
You know the actor who plays the Front Man, his actual irl name was mentioned by the other girl during the Marble Game in Episode 6.
This show deserve so many award..🏆
I hope this show will get awards..
Let’s be honest guys….
Sang Woos character was the best written, and the most realistic character in the show, it’s obvious we would kill/betray to live
The actor who plays Jun Ho said the same thing about Sangwoo's character, that he is the most realistic. Every single one of us is selfish to a point; it's always about "me". Now imagine how much more selfish we would all be in a situation like this.
@@SwiftieCatLover I mean if you have to pick between killing somebody or dying yourself I think its pretty obvious what most off us would pick. Especially if killing somebody has no downside in that you get to jail or something like that.
@@jeltevl8868 that’s why I never hated Sangwoo. He’s a selfish ass for sure, but pretty realistic considering how selfish people are in the real world.
@@jeltevl8868 he killed that glass guy that was okay but atlast he should have play fair not kill someone while they are asleep
@@maxstriker9839 he never did that was another guy
*YES YES YES*
Finished the show myself couple days ago and yesterday watched all your episode reactions
New one is here let's goooo ❤️
Squid Game needs to win tons of Emmys. Not just for the director/writer and the actors but the cinematography, music score, editing, set lighting and whatever other awards there are. The production is so amazing!
The series is in a conundrum. It can either submit to International Emmy which will be an easy win for the show or enter American Emmy which will lose to series like The Crown.
Really enjoying rewatching the highlights with your reactions. Can't wait for the rewatch of the finale.
I'm really hoping Jun-Ho is alive! If they do decide to do a season 2, I would love to see Jun-Ho try and go after his brother and take them all down.
Oh god I'm just excited to see your Episode 9 reaction. You guys are amazing!
Wtf I’ve been specifically watching cavazos and Roshi’s reactions of squid game to get between yours
This show reminds me of the movie The Host. It starts off violent and rough, and just keeps getting worse until despair, loss, and barely surviving is all that's left. I might be wrong but seems like that's a pretty common theme in Korean storytelling.
I couldn't sleep after the way they took Sae, I really wanted her to win.
Rewatching this with you guys is so much fun, and honestly i like Squid game even more the second time!
So excited for the finale reaction!
This episode also killed me. Seeing Sae-Byeok’s character development throughout the show and then seeing that the glass got her. I was so upset. I was rooting for her the whole way to get out and reunite with her family.
Ur channel always makes me happy, it makes me sooo excited Everytime u upload new stuff
When I saw it was Lee Byung I flipped out!!! If y’all have never seen I Saw the Devil or The Good, The Bad, The Weird…..go watch ASAP!!!
*taking notes*
I watched I Saw the Devil and it was CRAZY! I felt so bad for his character. Like dude all this revenge and look what came of it, smh. I think I have The Good, The Bad, and The Weird on one of my movie lists and I will for sure try to watch it soon!
@@LiveANoursishedLife girl it took me 2 attempts to get through I Saw the Devil, but man was it worth it! Says a lot about revenge and and how it might not help with the grieving process in the end.
Yes!!! I hope you enjoy it, it’s so much fun!!
Fun Easter egg a friend of mine pointed out: in Episode 6 when the girls are talking, the movie referencing mojitos on the beach is "Inside Man" and she says Lee Byung-hun's name as the star of the film!
Byun Hyun Lee was also T1000 in Terminator Genysis... if anyone watched that one.
you guys are the best reactors on tv shows and movies ngl, i kinda wanna meet u guys irl
They just seem like good human beings in general. Cultured, intelligent af, empathetic, i mean i am not ashamed to admit that they are both miles above me.
I honestly thought saebyok would win, cuz that would be the most satisfying ending, she's a better person than both finalists
her being killed was one of the most difficult scenes to watch for me, since I actually had hopes she'd make it somehow
Lee Byung-hun is in I Saw the Devil. Gory, but highly recommended.
Awe....The shout-out intro was so nice.
Dos Cavasos are awesome
I love you mention other channel that I loved to watch to😂
Sae Byeok is pronunced as "Say Beyok" more. Great reaction series and I look forward to your reaction for the finale. 😀
More like Seh-byuck (like yuck only with a b) 😊
Thanks for the reactions! I watched the drama again after your reaction after finding things I've missed. :) Saebyeog, girl who got hurt by glass explosion, her name means Dawn. :)
Another day of me Dropping everything I was doing to watch the Reaction 😂
1:19 i just realized how good that shot is of the pan up of the mountain as the detective is running towards it, symbolic of this insurmountable force of the squid games that this one man is attempting to go against.
I can't wait to see your reaction to the finale!! 🤩
can't wait to see you react to the finale..i have seen it and yeah I can't wait. it's like the what's in the box moment..everyone wants to know but when you know you wish you didn't know.
Cant wait for your reaction to the finale.
Dos Cavasos!!! Love the shoutout! Love them!
Lee Byung Hun (front man) is also great in Iris series 🤘
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
Mr. Sunshine
I love these two.
I was thinking about watching Iris but still undecided. I know it was a series but I thought I saw that there was a movie as well?
@@LiveANoursishedLife I saw the devil is the best. Iris is okay 7.5/10 action drama
@@bella_testastretta Thank you. I may check out Iris just to get a feel for it and see if I like it.
@@LiveANoursishedLife He is amazing as always. Go for the series.
For LBH fans, like me, it was so damn easy to recognize his voice, specially when speaking english. When he took the mask off it was just a confirmation
Yes, he has very distinct english speaking mannerism/pattern. I knew it was Lee Byung Hun the very first time he spoke English.
@@laxuspoldish6165 Exactly.
I'm glad you recognized Lee byung hun tho. Even his past role as Stormshadow
I’m so bitter about the policeman being caught and killed. So, so bitter. I wanted to see his efforts rewarded. I get why they didn’t, but still.
I agree. I was so sad. I loved him! He was my favorite character. But a small part of me has an inkling saying he's not dead!
Omg Roshi! Did you do something different with your hair? Lmao realistically Sang-Woo has the right idea at some points, he just goes about it so wrong every time.
The song in the beginning almost sounds like ‘Rollercoaster Tycoon 2’s Summer theme’
There is a flash back to them as children in the very first episode, and i've watched it a couple of times and have a bit of an interesting interpretation of it.
I think it shows the main character was the leader of their little group of school friends, he used to be the one that always won their playground games, he was the cool one, that the others looked up to.
But in adult life, they've all grown apart and the main character grew up to become a bit of a low-life, where as his biggest adversary as a kid, the number 2 kid in their group, grew up to go to Buisness school and become top of his class.
It creates an interesting dynamic between the two in this series, as the main character used to have so much promise as a kid, he might feel like he's waisted his life and those were his best years, were he was the man others looked up to.
In converse, his rival growing up, who was always number 2 in their group, might have always been a little jealous of him. Might be part of why he looks at him in a kinda of self important, i'm superior kind of way.
Graig : " is he storm shadow in gi Joe retaliation? "
Me : fuck that, you tell you didn't see (I saw the devil) yet ?
i was so confused by the intro because i’m watching your guys’ reactions along with dos cabazos and yaboyroshi lolll
Most people thought that the glass explosion was just a celebration pyrotechnics, I believe it was programed to explode once the timer ended to kill all the remaining players.
Can’t wait for the last episode
The talent in this show is amazing, can't wait for season 2!
I'M FIRST!!!! Seriously loving the reaction guys
You're gonna love the finale. You should also watch New Rockstars Squid Game video after since yall watch all their other vids.
If Sangwoo wanted to actually win though wouldn't he have killed Gihun while his back was turned? Then that would've left him to go up against an already dying Saebyeok. So you have to wonder why he decided to kill Saebyeok instead...mercy killing maybe? Or maybe he didn't realize how injured she was and just went for it
There will def be a season 2… this was too popular to not have another season. Plus it’s listed as season 1 not as a limited series. I think we’ll see Jun ho again and he’ll team up with Gi hun to take down the games and the vip’s together.
I sure hope so! If they really wanted to kill Junho off, they would've. In-ho would have shot him in the head, as he did to others all throughout the season. Plus, he was essentially hit in the shoulder and only hit the water. No thud. No loud crack to indicate he hit his head and died. The show loved to show off blood, gore, and dead bodies. I doubt he's dead.
That's just my two cents. Haha. ♡
Y'all not ready for the finale.
I'm telling y'all right now.
Also, 900k is upon us! Y'all are dead close to 1 million subscribers!
Sang-Woo woke up and chose violence 🙂
This is really amazing I love squid games and frontman looks so familiar.
Im just proud that it just wasnt me who recognized in-ho as storm shadow!! I was watching that scene with a friend and told he me no but look at us intellectuals being right huh!!! ☺️
The explosion of the bridge was not for a celebration... it was gonna explode because the time run out so if there was people still in those they had to fall since they failed... if they had finish sooner they would have move away from that bridge by the time it had exploded but since they barely make it it has consequences ... there is nothing unfair... Let's not forget that they are there from their free will... go somewhere else if you thing you can earn more than 40b won by playing 6 games (dangerous games... though game nonetheless =D)
Front man is Lee Byung Hun. We've seen him in action in movies like GI Joe and Red.
I'm eager to watch the final's reaction... I hope you dont postponed it until monday...
I love y’all’s channel
Love the intro lol!
I was so confused at the intro I thought I clicked the wrong video from my subscription feed 🤣
The first 5 seconds threw of me off so bad I was like wtf 😂😂
That intro is pure class🤪
Omigodd, I'm early again, I always wait here for ur uploadss, HIII
7:45 dude, blade-up is exactly the direction you want to put a knife into your pocket to show someone they're not in danger from you.
Can we just appreciate the dos cavasos and Yaboyroshi? I love all of their reactions, all of them are funny and entertaining mega W
First time watching it in English dub I loved it but during the marble scene I kept asking
My lady who never saw still hasn’t seen a lick of the show who she thought would die and what not just having fun and the reveals and twist were more jaw dropping then sad where as watching it now in Korean with English sub and just getting a better sense of everything this episode got me more then 6!!!!! The second time watching this show seeing Gi-Hun sobbing on the mans shoulder made me sad she’d a few tears yes but seeing Sae-Byeok go out like that got me hard. The relationship her and Gi-hun build is so genuine. Really do love the cast they got for this show. It’ll be a constant rewatch just like true detective season 1 for me time is like a flat circle alright alright alright 🤣
Watching every squid game reaction on TH-cam
I would recommend u guys watch final space it's a really great show and it has some really emotional moments that you wouldn't expect