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I think that it absolutely deserves the hype and even more so because it is atypical or at least not what most people associate with K dramas ( bad romance being number one). I'm glad Squid Game is the biggest drama globally, that's a phenomenon in America too, and not something like True Beauty, Lovers of the Red Sky, Doom At Your Service, Nevertheless, you get the idea.

Small correction: Ali has a son, not a daughter. He said so.

Squid Game turns the genre on its head because it deals with characters who willingly submit to the game even after they learn it's deadly and are given the option to leave. Usually, deathgame genre has a group of unwilling characters forced to participate (Hunger Games, Battle Royale, Alice in Borderland, etc). I think that the question "would you stay or would you go?" is what really resonates with people along with interesting characters, sets, nail-biting action and really clever use of the familiar (games and classical music) that's given a sinister spin. You can't look at marbles the same way anymore.

I marked spoilers 14 hours ago and you reply with "please mark spoilers" 3 hours ago which is 11 hours since I marked them. WTF? People already notified me why do you have to post a completely redundant reply doing the same hours after correction was made?

monster is 100% the bully. Only he called Song Kang's character Cha Hyun Soo, since that was on his high-school badge. Everyone in the building knew him only as Hyun Soo.

Moreover, remember that Hyun Soo's first meeting with the bully was him offering the bully his hand on a day when sky was blue? When Goo's first host offered Hyun Soo his hand on the rooftop, the sky was reddish and cloudy. Unmistakable parallel and cue. The only thing that didn't fit was Kim Seong-chul cause he didn't play the bully. But once it as revealed that Goo was originally someone else and could move from body to body, all pieces of the puzzle fall into place.

I have a serious question for eevryone who who I assume watched Sweet Home:

Do you really think that the last scene, where Song Kang charcater finds out that

a) Goo Monster took over Lee Jin Wook characters's body (hence no facial scar plus the original charcter was positively dead)

b), most importantly, the Goo Monster is the highschool bully (if you pause the episode 9 during the flahsback to Goo Monster experiment, you'll see it's the same actor, also Goo addressed him with his full name which no one in the building ever did - remember he had a badge with his full name on his highschool jacket)

is a proper ending to Song Kang character arc? Like, I get that Goo is at large and can move from dead host to dead host so he doesn't have to be played by Lee Jin Wook in Season 2. But what of Song Kang's character? Does it mean Goo killed him? Even as far as ambiguous endings go, it's feels like there should be more.

So I'm really confused that they want to follow Lee Si Young's quest for what her hubby's secret work was all about rather than Song Kang story that was more compelling and certianly ended with a cliffhanger.

And don't get me started to LDH's "death" without body which always means no death at all.

I have a serious question for eevryone who who I assume watched Sweet Home:

Do you really think that the last scene, where Song Kang charcater finds out that

a) Goo Monster took over Lee Jin Wook characters's body (hence no facial scar plus the original charcter was positively dead)

b), most importantly, the Goo Monster is the highschool bully (if you pause the episode 9 during the flahsback to Goo Monster experiment, you'll see it's the same actor, also Goo addressed him with his full name which no one in the building ever did - remember he had a badge with his full name on his highschool jacket)

is a proper ending to Song Kang character arc? Like, I get that Goo is on the large and can move from dead host to dead host so he doesn't have to be played by Lee Jin Wook in Season 2. But what of Song Kang's character? Does it mean Goo killed him? Even as far as ambiguous endings go, it's feels like there should be more.

So I'm really confused that they want to follow Lee Si Young's quest for what her hubby's secret work was all about rather than Song Kang story that was more compelling and certianly ended with a cliffhanger.

And don't get me started to LDH's "death" without body which always means no detah at all.

I don't care. It's ridiculous and people make fun of it. They won't pass for teen age and nobody thinks they are younger because of it.

Yep, I skip scenes with Krystal and Dumbo. They are unnecessary to the story. Bromance is where it all is and 2MLs are amazing.

wait, WHAT? No Song Kang and Lee Jin Wook after THAT cliffhanger??????? Is that a joke? WTF Netflix? You can't pay your actors enough to come back? And we didn't see LDH's body so that means he's alive duh.

I love SH universe but the cast was the star and now all the boys and Go Min Si are not coming back even though they were the best. Damn. I'm so angry now. Seriously, been waiting for the new season only to get a cold shower.

Jung Hae In is fantastic. Watched him on D.P. and watch him currently on Prison Playbook (amazing drama, 9/10, I docked the point on unnecessary cringe-worthy romance that's forced on that drama only because they didn't want 2 ML to come off gay). He's so talented and hot.

dramas don't take years to make so if body changes on monthly basis, it won't be less believable if it changed within a week. Yet I've seen a number of American movies and dramas with actual teens and they didn't change at all on the show/movie so that's that. I don't buy that excuse, sorry.

that's all very true. Ironically, Craig swapped Bond for Knives Out franchise for 100M for 2 movies! Which is insane cause the first one made 311M globaly on 40M budget before P&A so why the heck would they pay him 50M per movie as if it made 1 billion? 50M is 10M more than the budget for the first. Just insane.

hear hear.

perhaps but being 30 and up playing a teenager is pushing it even with end-of-puberty explanation.

yep, no actor ever turned down big money. RDJ didn't leave Iron Man/MCU because he had it enough but because Disney/Marvel didn't offer him enough to make him stay. And they didn't cause they deemed that MCU brand could do without him. When they thought the brand needed him, they paid him 50M per movie or whatever he asked. No more. Not that they won't in the future but they aren't now.

It's a classic hype thing like Hollywood movies announcing sequels before the first movie opened. Display of confidence (that they may not feel but it's good optics).

but it didn't leave on the high note, hence their finding a way to have more Kim Bum. They really screwed up and cheated themselves out of sequels (as in new seasons set after the events of the finale not before the events in season 1) when they killed off Lee Rang, the most popular and beloved character.

but it didn't leave on the high note, hence their finding a way to have more Kim Bum. They really screwed up and cheated themselves out of sequels (as in new seasons set after the events of the finale not before the events in season 1) when they killed off Lee Rang, the most popular and beloved character.

I think that dramas in general are much better at bromance than romance because a) they make bromance realistic while romance is censored within an inch of its life so it doesn't resemble reality in the slightest and b) drama FLs tend to be really annoying, both in writing (they start as overly aggressive generic strong women but devolve into weeping damsels in distress or waiting girlfriends) and acting (they tend to pick the most obnoxious actresses).
Actors mesh much better with each other and their interactions feel more natural.

since most of historical dramas have made up characters and no historical figures, yes you can set them outside of the court. But they always have someone who is a Prince/Princess King/Queen or what I call Lamp Hat Porn (porn as in overdone, too much).