Useless reality ever
What can i say, i was a huge fan of the 1st season even if the alliances thing of going all vs one annoyed me a lot, but in this season they did their best.Funny how this should be a reality where the smartest win games but it turned out like a contest who make more friends.
Starting from the cast: Sohee and Kyuhyun should do acting and commentary because how can you play a survival game if you have no will to win; they annoyed so much with all of those sentimental choices like they are playing with each other lives, not even if they were in squid game where they are playing with people lives, just play the game for god sake. Hyunjoon, Jiyeong, Chuu and the 2004 guy were absolutely useless and since they know that they did everything to play in group because they knew that alone they would have been in disadvantage.
And here it comes the biggest problem: THE PRODUCTION. How can you put in every game the possibility of ruining it by playing in groups; of course people will do alliances to survive but if you put them in the conditions to use that to play games like kids in elementary school, i ask myself where is the fun of watching this show. The peak was at the game at the 11th episode: i don't wanna say what happened because i don't wanna make spoilers but all of what happened was absolutely ridicolous, just people who refuse to play the game and decided who would have gone to the final.
Basically if you start this season because you want to see people solve problems, competing in games and give their best (wich should be the concept of the program) save your time because all that you will get is people who tries to pass the game all togheter without playing it and leave behind the people who want to play alone. Only the prison games are a bit entertaining to watch, but there you can witness how bad are some people who always played in group when they're put in a situation of playing alone
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Decent show that didn't delivered as it could have done
NO SPOILER PART: The start was great, it makes you go into the story, describe well the 2 main characters, Ga-min and Se-hyun and make you understand how the school works. The first part of the story is all about creating this study group and going through all the difficulties that the school rules give to our heroes, but all start to go worse in the second part when they focus more on showing off how the villains use their authority and how much power they have in the society and this all because they fail in that goal. (Read the spoiler part to undertand what i mean)Nothing to say to the acting because all of the main actors delivered, especially Lee Jung-hyun wich was the first time i saw (Minhyun and Cha Woo-min were awesome but i already knew them before). The best part of the show were the fight scenes, full of special effects to be honest but they succeded in their missions, give a high-boost of adrenalyne.
SPOILER PART:
Said that, the drama didn't have nothing more, starting from the writing of the villains. You known almost nothing of them, especially of Min-hwan so i can't see how you can be threatened by someone who you don't even know why he behave like this. Talking about Han-wool it seems like they wanna draw him like a completely sadic person with no specific reason of being evil, for example the overused reason of being forced by the situation of having a bad family, and that is reinforced by the only discussion Han-Wool and his father have in the drama when the son demonstrate to have no fear of his dad, and for me that isn' a problem itself because i'm pretty bored with the same annoying backstories of the villains to show their problems and insecurities before their redemption so you can empathize. The problem is when at the end you see Han-wool have a deja-vu of the professor he killed while looking at Han Ji-eun character and almost start crying like he magically understand in 3 seconds all the bad things he did and starts to feel guilty.
Basically it was a show that uses the easiest things to hype you like good fights with rap music in background but when it comes to characters (especially the villains but for me also the 2 girls) and plot building fails miserably and that is a shame
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