crazy and thrilling, yet frustrating. intriguing plot, great villain, good acting, bad characters, fine pacing. the first half is pretty annoying, but the second half is quite exciting and shocking.
i'd say worth a watch just don't expect a masterpiece.
honestly, i was really thrown off by the sudden pace change when they introduced the parent's backstories, but as i was watching through them, i slowly got more and more invested in the storylines and it's satisfying seeing how they all converge in the future. ep 12-13 are incredible imo. yes it's definitely a very jarring transition, but i think it gives so much character and reasoning behind the parent's personalities/decisions. i just wish they made it more seamless than a sudden 7 ep arc in the middle. wish they'd have flashbacks alongside the main present story, shame.
this is probably just me considering how high of a rating this has but im SO bored of all the parent flashback…
the problem is they dedicated 4-5 straight full episodes to them after already introducing the main story. idk why they slowed the pace down so much instead of dispersing their flashbacks into the main story in an interesting way. also because their stories are mainly just to show the romance, i think it severely took away from the relevant action thriller plot that we were already seeing with frank.
i believe this season was based off the manga "alice in borderland retry" where they do go back into the games after escaping. granted, it's very different from the manga, but so were the first 2 seasons.
personally, i HOPE it's a coming of age story and not against curly hair because i'm exhausted by that trope. i'm hoping that since it's a modern tale they'll have modern views, but i guess time will only tell.
how do you know this is a movie against curly hair? it's a metaphor for her life. it starts getting tangled and curly, like her life, so she tries to straighten it. how do you know by the end she doesn't embrace her natural hair given to her by her dad? is it not nice to get representation of different hair types too?
What i hate about this film or plot that is this proves how stereotypical korea is that they are out of ideas…
it hasn't even come out yet. koreans naturally have curly and frizzy hair too. they're not making fun of it. it's a coming-of-age story where her hair starts to curl and tangle as she's older (inherited by her father's curly hair) and with it her life also starts to tangle. she tries to straighten it to stop the tangles aka her trying to straighten out her life, but it prob won't work and she'll embrace it by the end (based on my prediction). how can you judge it before it even comes out? it seems like it's a metaphor, not the old dramas with the chubby glasses nerd and transformation or whatever.
vincenzo holds a strangely special place in my heart. had i watched it alone, i probably might've dropped it, let alone rated it that high. however, i watched it TWICE, once with my sibling and another with my friend (as i was introducing her to kdramas). because of the characters and the found family aspect mixed with the comedy and action, it was surprisingly good for new fans to explore multiple genres in one. it's simply a comfort watch now because of all the great memories associated and my friend made me adore the found family because of how much she fell in love with them.
OMG what a movie! This was a very powerful and dark movie. I was choked up the entire time and I felt like I couldn't…
this tragically DID happen in real life. this movie was based on the gwangju inhwa school case and it truly opened the eyes of the korean public and policies. this movie quite literally changed korea forever, but the circumstances to come to it were horrific.
i love the 8 show but it's so funny cuz everyone in the 8 show's comments always compare it to squid games and say it's worse. so the cycle continues lmao
vincenzo is such a strange drama because it's tonally all over the place and completely not what you would expect from the premise or cover. but it's such a damn good comfort show with such an amazing found family. i love it to bits.
of course i know this because it's squid game so she had zero chance of living BUT I'M FOREVER GONNA MISS MY GIRL HYUNJU I HOPE SHE GIRLBOSSES IN PEACE 😭
pretty much everyone died in s1 too. more characters actually made it out of this season than s1 aka 246 and the…
i think that's pretty natural to though. granted, most of the greedy characters in this felt like caricatures and were bumped to the max "evil" level, but we saw in s1 that even if they left, they have no life outside of the games. they would've come back anyway. so even if 456 warned them, there's no other option. look at how excited namgyu and myunggi got killing people in hide and seek. everyone was too far gone at that point.
i enjoyed most of this season but i'm still SO upset at how weak the front man and gihun confrontation/reveal was and how the brother confrontation was basically nonexistent. those are two of the biggest moments the show was leading up to and both miserably failed.
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i'd say worth a watch just don't expect a masterpiece.