One Lucky Day: Squid Game episode 9. “When we were kids, we would play just like this, and our moms would call us in for dinner. But no one calls us anymore.” If I’m being honest, there’s a lot about the season finale of Squid Game that’s below the show’s average. I didn’t much care …
Front Man: Squid Game Episode 8. It’s the shortest episode of Squid Game by some way, but the show’s eighth instalment, “Front Man,” is full of deaths that matter. With only one episode to go, perhaps that was to be expected. Every remaining death means something, because every remaining character is a major one. There’s …
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: Squid Game episode 6. 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 the hanging …
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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… …
