Squid Game episode 7: VIPS. Episode seven is called “VIPS,” and it begins with a close-up of Ali’s face before the gift-box casket closes on him. The camera zooms out after the box closes and cuts to a monitor in the control room as the Front Man gets a call revealing that the intruder is …
Gganbu (and more Questions, Queries and Theories). Squid Game has largely eschewed tugging on the heartstrings—until now… Apart from a short scene in which Jun-ho overhears the Front Man taking a telephone call about the arrival of the games’ VIPs, the action is focused on the players and their next game. The horror of seeing …
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A Fair World part 3. Back in the main room, Gi-hun notices there’s something wrong with 001 and realizes that he has a fever. He helps the old man lie down, and Sae-byeok gives him a bottle of water to help lower the fever. Gi Hun puts the old man to bed and Sae- Byeok …
A Fair World part 2. At the control room, a square guard watches as the doctor and a triangle guard move through the colorful maze of staircases, Just like last time he erases the footage afterwards. No keyboard or mouse, Erase is just a round button. Again you see the guards are similar to the …
A Fair World part 1. Squid Game episode 4 ended with a big cliffhanger, episode 5 begins with people falling off that cliff. Sang-woo comes up with a last-minute plan and his team wins the tug of war. Somehow he convinced everyone to take three steps forward to force the other team to the ground. …
Final part of “Stick to the Team”. Before the third full game begins, the players are told that they will be playing as a team. They have ten minutes to split into groups of ten. Between Gi-hun, Sang-woo, Ali, Sae-byeok, and Player 001, they still need five more people. Massive change in colour palette here …
Squid Game episode 4 round up part 2. The guards are seen moving the bodies around and into the incinerators. In the infirmary, Jun-ho switches out his mask for a square mask, disguising himself now as a supervisor. Nice scene where he is asked why he isn’t doing his job then horror from the guard …
Squid Game – “Stick to the Team” part 1. Following the honeycomb game in Episode 3 of Squid Game, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Episode 4 packs a punch with two games. Both present the players with a completely different — but equally fucked-up — challenge: a challenge of the ability to murder… …
Final part of The Man with the Umbrella podcast. The red suits enter the arena first… a playground. Then, the players come in. They have to pick a shape, either a circle, triangle, star, or umbrella. Does Sang-woo know what the game is from the clue from 067 about the sugar? Or just the shapes …
Squid Game episode 3 round up part 2. The players start to find teams. Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) gets Cho Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo), Ali Abdul (Anupam Tripathi), and Oh II-nam (O Yeong-su) on his team. Sang Woo tells Ali off for calling him sir, there’s a bit of discussion around the subtitles / dubbing not …
