Why i HATE Squid Game on Netflix - Terrible Show

Hello, welcome back to my new review of

Squid Game. Squid Game is this new

smash-hit Korean drama show on Netflix

that everyone's talking about, and I've

seen it all. I actually binge-watched it

all in a day, and as an avid watcher and

lover of Korean drama and TV shows,

unfortunately this show is just not quite

up to my standards. So I first got into

Korean drama back in 2010 when I dated

several Korean women, and And I managed to

become fluent in Korean in 6 months. So I

think I have quite a lot to say and

experience behind Korean culture and TV

shows. So to keep things short, basically

the story is about this guy. He lost his

family in some tragic event, and then he

turns to gambling to try and get money,

and he loses all his money, as most

gamblers end up doing, and he becomes

indebted to a bunch of these kind of

dangerous gangster criminal organizations.

So there's this thing called the Squid

Games. Where over 400 contestants sign up

and the prize is lots and lots of money,

a huge amount of money. The drawback is if

you get eliminated from one of these

games, you also— you end up losing your

life. So basically you have to put

everything on the line to win this massive

jackpot and hopefully you beat out the

other 400 contestants. Sounds a bit like

those battle royale movies and shows and a

bit like Hunger Games. You know, you got

all these contestants, there's some kind

of challenge, some kind of game. There's

an ultimate prize and like an ultimate

loss of life for all the other losers.

It's, um, you know, it's not really an

original storyline or plot. It's been done

over and over and over again countless

times. Even a whole category and genre of

video games spawned from the popularity of

these movies, like Fortnite,

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, all that

kind of stuff. So it's obviously a very,

very popular idea and concept that

resonates to a broad audience, and a lot

of people can probably see themselves in

the shoes of the protagonist. They can

probably understand and relate to the

desperateness of the situation, how much

they need and want lots and lots of money,

and they can probably start questioning

themselves, like, what would I be willing

to do to get loads of money? Would I be

willing to take the lives of others,

hundreds of other people, would lose their

lives, but I would gain a massive jackpot

and my life would be easy and all my

problems will be solved. I think that's an

idea and a concept that has been very

interesting for most of the human race for

most of time. The idea of putting

everything on the line for a huge payout

is very entertaining and risky.

And I'm guessing the role of shows like

Squid Game is trying to teach us a lesson,

is trying to teach society a lesson on how

risking everything and sacrificing

everything for some huge monetary gain is

not really a great idea, and 9 out of 10

times people are just going to fail and

not actually manage to solve any of their

problems and maybe even make life worse.

I just feel like it's a very preachy

thing, like I'm being lectured to, trying

to teach me that greed is not a good thing

and money isn't everything, blah blah

blah. It's kind of like A symbolization of

what mankind is willing to do in order to

achieve his goals, even if that means

destroying other people's lives in the

process. It's like stepping over other

people's backs in order to achieve your

own dreams and solve your own problems.

And maybe in this day and age of

ever-growing and ever-increasing greed and

materialism, maybe it's an important

lesson that many of the youth these days

need to be reminded of. Now, even though

the Squid Game show has a decent core

message, unfortunately, as an avid Korean

drama lover and TV show enthusiast,

the plot and the delivery and the

execution of the show just doesn't quite

live up to my standards. The main

characters do not feel very fleshed out,

and at times the plot feels rushed and

hurried. Also, the acting performances,

although not terrible, were not exactly

Oscar-winning Hollywood levels of

performance. And sometimes the jarring

dialogue and badly translated subtitles

don't really efficiently deliver the

message of the show. So I was fairly

enjoying the show up until episode 7 when

the VIPs make an appearance. Now, the VIPs

are these really rich, wealthy Westerners,

and they have utterly atrocious dialogue

and really cringe and cheesy one-liners.

And you can kind of see that it's like a

non-native English speaker has come up

with these lines and thought, oh, this

must sound cool to an English-speaking

audience or Korean audience who don't

really understand English that much. And

it's just really weird when it goes from

Korean, because you're listening to this

Korean show with Korean people, and then

all of a sudden you've got this really

cringe, lame English dialogue thrown into

your face. And unfortunately, the VIPs

just take up huge amount of screen time

from when they're introduced into the

show. They just have way too much

presence, and I hated every moment that

they were on screen. I think it would have

been much better if they had no lines at

all and they were like these mysterious

shadow kind of figures in the background,

and you're trying to figure out, oh, who

are they? What are they there for? It

would have been more interesting if they

were more mysterious. And also, at times,

the plot can be kind of confusing.

There's all these different characters

that pop up from nowhere, not really

explained explained very well, kind of

have these pointless subplots that don't

really lead anywhere, don't really have

much of an effect on the main story. They

could have been cut out completely and it

wouldn't really have made much of a

difference. As for the ending of the show,

it was okay, but I wasn't really

impressed. It actually ended up leaving me

with more questions than answers. There

were many plot holes that didn't really

seem to get filled in. And also, when the

main character wins all the money, wins

the jackpot, you think, oh great, happy

ending. But then he just does a bunch of

random stuff doesn't really make any

sense. Like, why did he dye his hair pink?

Why didn't he get on the aeroplane to see

his daughter? Why didn't he at least prove

that he had the money in his bank account

so he could support her before she moved

to America? It just felt like he won all

this money and then he doesn't really do

anything with it. He just goes back to his

normal boring lifestyle where he's all

depressed and doesn't know what to do with

his life, apart from one difference: he's

got tens of billions of dollars in his

bank account now. It just makes it seem

like everything he struggled for and

battled for during the show didn't really

amount to much. All in all, I felt kind of

emotionally confused by the show. In the

beginning, you know, I kind of pitied the

main character, and then I started rooting

for him, and then at the end I was kind of

disappointed in him. And unfortunately, I

would have to give this show a rating of

2.2 out of 8 stars. Not exactly

one of my highest ratings. It was an okay

show. Some of the cinematography was

pretty good, and if you like violence and

brutal gore, then you would love this.

But as someone who demands a little bit

more on the intellectual scale and a bit

more depth in his programming, TV

programs, this show just wasn't quite up

to my standards and I wasn't able to give

it a recommended rating. So thanks for

listening. Those were my thoughts on the

Squid Game show. I hope you liked it.