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Squid Game 2x01 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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Thomas Corp

A Happy New Year’s Eve/Day (really Eve as it turns out) to you, Jess. Watching Squid Game with you today it is. You mention not seeing the trailers for this season. Likewise. Similar views with going into the season with the “Just have fun out there” mentality. That and my favorite characters are already dead, so that tension is gone with the wind. Shared thing of being unclear about this season, fan reception-wise. Particularly given the popularity of season one, you do need to change up the narrative some. Recalls Leonard Maltin talking about The Omen saying how the death scenes in that were so shocking to audiences back then, and it meant you couldn’t exactly just copy-and-paste for the sequels; you needed to do something different with any continuation. You and I are anticipating that will be the case here. That’s not a spoiler mind you as I’ve only seen this first episode so as not to even run the risk of spoiling shit for you, Jess. Start with unpacking this episode. We do return with a solid premiere. One where there is no focus on the games, whilst retaining copious tension and suspense. Good move on Gi-hun’s part of finding and removing the tracker. It always seemed likely given how the first season ended that he wasn’t just going to fuck off with the money. Years later and this seems to be the only thing in his life presently. And you observe that he more or less needs to keep grinding away at it, lest the noise in his head, accurate description by the way, becomes too cacophonous. As it turns out, finding a tall skinny guy in a suit with side bangs swept to the side, per your description is quite the tall order. He has recruited Kim to help, who yes, is the previously seen loan shark. I didn’t catch that myself as I haven’t seen season one since you reacted to it; that and Arcane was a hell of a double act coming up three years ago now. It was brought to my attention, however, that yes, Kim is said loan shark. I love how he explains his thought process of thinking that although he feels Gi-hun is certifiable, the money he has, plus the lengths he’s gone suggest he is shooting straight about being after someone. Even if the story does sound ludicrous, someone is out there that Gi-hun is after. Shared laugh at the discovery of the man who, I believe that in the absence of a proper name, the writers have dubbed the man as the Salesman. Answering the logistical question. You would think that they have multiple recruiters given the sheer volume of players that are recruited, and presumably from multiple cities and neighborhoods. Gi-hun simply zeroed in on the one man specifically as he’s the only viable lead. It is something peeling the layers back on the Salesman and how he can do what he does. He’s seen enough, done enough, that yeah, he’s left with complete moral bankruptcy and disassociates to the point that he views the people he recruits for the games as nothing more than garbage. Then there was his bread and lottery thing. Makes you wonder if he’s having a bad day; if he’s feeling all right. I mean, not to get too personal, but a man who would dump all that bread on the ground, jump up and down on it like a five-year-old throwing a temper tantrum, all seemingly done just for funzies in his spare time, has either got serious personal issues, or not all his dogs are barking. Rather like how Kim seemed to think the same thing with his look of befuddlement as he processed what he was seeing. Quick sidenote. You commented on the callouses on the Salesman’s hand, I noticed that too. Good catch. We both knew that he clocked being followed. Between his presumed age, combined with the games being in operation since at least 1988, you get very efficient at always minding your surroundings. Leading to the horrifying Russian roulette scenes. You say that you know that when the villain starts playing Opera, you’re fucked, that made me cackle. Quite true, the observation you made, though I imagine tough with the copyright in the editing. Good selection in Nessun Dorma to be clear, but tough with the editing, I’m sure. The terror is strong in that scene. Yeah, it gets you when against expectations, Kim refuses to condemn his associate to death, and even has a slight look that said, “Just do it, you prick.” before the trigger was pulled. Ballsy though this show is, yeah, you wouldn’t think that Gi-hun would be killed at the first episode of the season. Not that the tension lessens, as I hear you on loving how the entire end scene was lit, filmed, and acted. Immensely satisfying when Gi-hun refused to play the mind game, and when he “won” for want of a better term, just had the look and body language that said, “Empty. Your move, Sir.” leading to the Salesman breaking, and his decision to stick to his principles. Then there’s Jun-ho. I honestly would not have minded if his story had ended last season on such the down note. By the same token, I was not averse to his survival and was more grateful that said survival was not going to be some long reveal, and instead, got revealed very early. Love his superior does believe him whilst noting that there is the dearth of actual evidence to go on. A fact reinforced with his efforts to find the island without a more viable frame of reference as to where to look. I adored your reaction to when Jun-ho misses crossing paths with Gi-hun, but upon seeing the name, it jogs the memory and leads him into the direction he’s taking. Likely leading to the two of them meeting again, and committing to taking the games down. And if that team-up is on the horizon, that’s not an admission that it will be as I don’t know, I too would wager that the team-up will happen sooner rather than later. Come what may, I am here for the ride of sharing this show with you. One episode back in, and you had such a grand reaction, Jess. One that was much appreciated, thank you.

Ryan

Well, looks like he bet all that money on the Jets, so now he's back in the Squid Game. I'm currently watching and reading quite a few things, so I'm only up to this one episode myself. I probably won't have the patience to keep to that, but for now it's nice to be totally on the same page. And I'll be honest, I didn't have very high hopes for this season. The first season's ending always struck me as akin to the first Back to the Future, where it's now pretty well known that the cliffhanger ending was never actually intended at the time to lead into a sequel and caused the crew all kinds of problems when they got roped into actually making one. And it didn't help at all that Hwang Dong-hyuk hasn't been shy at all about how much Netflix is screwing him out of the show's profits and making it now feels like slave labor, causing so much stress that his health has been seriously affected and he's even lost a few teeth. Then you add in that this season was filmed simultaneously with the third and final one, meaning we're probably not going to get any kind of closure for some time, and I was seriously considering skipping it until I can get the whole story. But in the end, the temptation of getting your reaction after the first season brought so much out was too much to resist. And for the first half of this episode, I was questioning that. We start out by catching up with Jun-ho through the most naked and shameless expository dialogue since the judge from Eight Crazy Nights, and it felt like the show was just spinning its wheels to a downright confusing level seeing as we only have seven episodes this time. But then that all changes the moment the unmistakable sound of a ddakji hitting the ground arrives. My face was pretty much the same as yours, and from then on we're off to the races, aided immeasurably by the expanded role for Gong Yoo. In the three years between seasons I finally checked out Train to Busan, which had me hoping he'd get more to do here, and he doesn't disappoint, putting that incredibly expressive face that served him so well in his early romantic comedies to much creepier use as we learn what a sadistic bastard this guy really is. And it was a treat to get that opera music we already know works very well with a suspense scene from Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. It's a shame to see him go, but this does feel like a perfectly natural endpoint for him, and I'm now looking forward to the rest of the season much more than I was before.

Jenny Chalek

I'm so excited to see you react to this. Squid Game is how I first found your channel (and reactors in general). I've already binged it, but I am looking forward to the rewatch with you.

Ryan
>>159902408

That movie has two of the funniest TV censorships ever, with "melon farmer" and in that very scene, the sign saying "I hate everybody." Apparently enough people noticed the calluses that a statement was put out that they're makeup, and meant to show how many times he's slapped people. The Jun-ho story is the one thing that really has me nervous. With only six more episodes, how much longer are they going to string out the first half of Partners in Crime?

Thomas Corp
>>159902408

And when they filmed, the sign was blank as they didn’t want to take any chances when they were filming in Harlem. My brother loves that scene for the random guy yelling, “What the FUCK!?” upon seeing McClane with the sign. Hadn’t heard about the statement made about the callouses. The statement makes sense.

Thomas Corp
>>159903435

Like I said, no real personal feelings or bad blood against the Jets. That fact aside, me and several others are cackling and pointing at the chief quarterback, yelling, “Ya done messed up, A A Ron!!” Incidentally, the football fans of all people seem to be the ones who want to spoil what happens in this season of Squid Game the most. I go on reddit for the memes, find a lot of the ones about the Bears to share with my mom and brother, largely to give them a good laugh to help with how dreadful a season they had. Lots of people are making up Squid Game memes, making me yell, “What in the damn hell!? People, I haven’t seen past the first fucking episode yet!! Everybody slow their goddamn roll, please, for Chrissake!!” I’m going to do my best to keep the patience that nobody seems to have anymore. If I do get spoiled by shit, I’ll do like Jess does and I’ll be honest about it. No, yeah, I would have been perfectly fine if the first season was all that ever was of this show. Same thing of likening it to the ending to Back to the Future where it felt like it wasn’t intended to go anywhere else when they made it. One benefit is that there’s no Jennifer awkwardly knocked out because the writers couldn’t figure out jackshit with what to do with her. Given the structure of the second and third seasons of this sounds like Back to the Future, I too wouldn’t have minded just waiting, but the temptation of the reactions Jess has is too great to resist. Thanks so much for reminding me of Eight Crazy Nights. I only try so hard to burn that movie from my brain. The sound of a ddakji hitting the ground does signal the great shift, yeah. Caught Train to Busan when Jess reacted to that before getting to Squid Game. Terrific film, albeit very sad. It was nice to see Gong Yoo have more of an opportunity to work here. Likewise, nice to see Lee Jung-jae continue to show how good he is between this and The Acolyte. Opera music always does wonders for suspenseful scenes, Nessun Dorma being particularly good in that regard. Here’s looking forward to what’s to come with the rest of the season.

Ryan
>>159903435

The Jets line was actually a reference to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mDmGaaPhTQ

Thomas Corp
>>159903435

Oh. Never caught that one. Well, the joke has aged rather depressingly well. The Front Man does look like Doctor Doom. I’m really going to miss the crazy girlfriend in this season.