It Gets Worse
My 4 categories are Acting/Cast, Writing, Direction/SFX/Music, Entertainment Value.
Full disclosure: I am not a fan of Squid Game. I didn’t like the 1st season (I had given it a 4/10). This drama has felt, from the beginning, like a poorly executed version of deadly game plots (such as Hunger Games and 3%).
Acting/Cast: The cast is decent. A lot of big actors. However, this season, there’s not many characters left. Unfortunately, we end up stuck with a bunch of expendables and VIPs. Really? They think this will carry the drama to the finish line? The VIPs are the worst. Who, in the process of filming, watched these scenes back and said “Yeah, this is good”? I’m assuming it’s the director/screenwriter. I haven’t seen anything else he’s worked on and now I would never want to. 4/10
Writing: The writing is so bad, they tried to use the VIPs and the owner of the games to gaslight us into thinking it makes sense. Anytime something stupid, boring, and/or unrealistic was happening, one of those characters starts explaining why it’s not bad writing. Like when the insufferable voting system pops up again, they cut to a character saying something like “this is the most interesting part of the games.” What are you smoking?? This is literally the dumbest, most boring, dragged out waste of time in this whole series. I think they finally realized that and started cutting the voting short. It literally doesn’t matter and has no effect on anything, especially this season. Another example, is when the owner of the games would explain the psychology of the characters’ decision-making, in an attempt to convince the viewers that it makes sense. No, it still doesn’t make sense. None of this makes sense. At this point, everyone should either be completely out of their minds, begging for their life, or committing suicide. I mean, they are literally being tortured for days on end in a hopeless situation. They also use the idiotic VIP characters to give us a play-by-play on what’s happening in the games. It’s like having that annoying person that won’t shut the hell up sitting next to you in the theater. They break intense scenes with these stupid ones, completely ruining all of the buildup and tension. The dialogue writing for the VIPs is so terrible, along with the acting, that I felt like I was watching cut scenes from a video game, and not a good one. If AI really is writing scripts these days, I’d think that this is a good example of what that would look like. If I were to write this drama, I’d have the VIPs as silent observers that we see quick glimpses of here and there. Maybe they cheer sometimes, maybe they just give condescending golf claps, maybe they become involved in the direction of the games. I mean, anything but what the writers actually had them do. We don’t need them to have dialogue for us to know that they are psychotic; just them being there already proves that they are. The cop character, by the way, remains completely useless and dumb. He never does anything cool, so don’t hold your breath. Also, all of the players die in very predictable ways. I didn’t feel anything for any of them. Actually, the one character that we’re ultimately supposed to feel something for is a freaking CGI baby. 1/10
Direction/SFX/Music: The CGI baby is the worst. I can’t feel emotion for that thing. The CGI dog was terrible as well. Can we please either get a bigger budget for trained animals or real looking effects or just write this stuff out of the story all together. The bad CGI just ruins it. 1/10
Entertainment Value: Definitely the least entertaining of the seasons by far. I still got through it pretty quick, though, in hope that something cool would happen at the end. Like maybe seeing the VIPs get murdered or thrown into the games themselves. That would be fun. Or the cop character saving some people in the games. Nothing cool happens though. This drama is a tragedy. I’m not a fan of tragedies. 2.5/10
Overall, I gave this season a 2/10. It lost whatever charm it originally had and basically became a slasher. It’s not about using skill to win games anymore, but about murdering people in hand-to-hand combat. So boring, so uncreative. Everything is predictable and nothing cool happens. I would be surprised if it was proven that AI wasn’t used to write this trash.
Full disclosure: I am not a fan of Squid Game. I didn’t like the 1st season (I had given it a 4/10). This drama has felt, from the beginning, like a poorly executed version of deadly game plots (such as Hunger Games and 3%).
Acting/Cast: The cast is decent. A lot of big actors. However, this season, there’s not many characters left. Unfortunately, we end up stuck with a bunch of expendables and VIPs. Really? They think this will carry the drama to the finish line? The VIPs are the worst. Who, in the process of filming, watched these scenes back and said “Yeah, this is good”? I’m assuming it’s the director/screenwriter. I haven’t seen anything else he’s worked on and now I would never want to. 4/10
Writing: The writing is so bad, they tried to use the VIPs and the owner of the games to gaslight us into thinking it makes sense. Anytime something stupid, boring, and/or unrealistic was happening, one of those characters starts explaining why it’s not bad writing. Like when the insufferable voting system pops up again, they cut to a character saying something like “this is the most interesting part of the games.” What are you smoking?? This is literally the dumbest, most boring, dragged out waste of time in this whole series. I think they finally realized that and started cutting the voting short. It literally doesn’t matter and has no effect on anything, especially this season. Another example, is when the owner of the games would explain the psychology of the characters’ decision-making, in an attempt to convince the viewers that it makes sense. No, it still doesn’t make sense. None of this makes sense. At this point, everyone should either be completely out of their minds, begging for their life, or committing suicide. I mean, they are literally being tortured for days on end in a hopeless situation. They also use the idiotic VIP characters to give us a play-by-play on what’s happening in the games. It’s like having that annoying person that won’t shut the hell up sitting next to you in the theater. They break intense scenes with these stupid ones, completely ruining all of the buildup and tension. The dialogue writing for the VIPs is so terrible, along with the acting, that I felt like I was watching cut scenes from a video game, and not a good one. If AI really is writing scripts these days, I’d think that this is a good example of what that would look like. If I were to write this drama, I’d have the VIPs as silent observers that we see quick glimpses of here and there. Maybe they cheer sometimes, maybe they just give condescending golf claps, maybe they become involved in the direction of the games. I mean, anything but what the writers actually had them do. We don’t need them to have dialogue for us to know that they are psychotic; just them being there already proves that they are. The cop character, by the way, remains completely useless and dumb. He never does anything cool, so don’t hold your breath. Also, all of the players die in very predictable ways. I didn’t feel anything for any of them. Actually, the one character that we’re ultimately supposed to feel something for is a freaking CGI baby. 1/10
Direction/SFX/Music: The CGI baby is the worst. I can’t feel emotion for that thing. The CGI dog was terrible as well. Can we please either get a bigger budget for trained animals or real looking effects or just write this stuff out of the story all together. The bad CGI just ruins it. 1/10
Entertainment Value: Definitely the least entertaining of the seasons by far. I still got through it pretty quick, though, in hope that something cool would happen at the end. Like maybe seeing the VIPs get murdered or thrown into the games themselves. That would be fun. Or the cop character saving some people in the games. Nothing cool happens though. This drama is a tragedy. I’m not a fan of tragedies. 2.5/10
Overall, I gave this season a 2/10. It lost whatever charm it originally had and basically became a slasher. It’s not about using skill to win games anymore, but about murdering people in hand-to-hand combat. So boring, so uncreative. Everything is predictable and nothing cool happens. I would be surprised if it was proven that AI wasn’t used to write this trash.
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