Squid Game
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Many more than 456 people have gone through this mental and physical torture; there have been thousands.
The episode starts where thelast left off, with Gi-huns team winning the tug-of-war after using Sang-woos trick.
Gi-hun also shares more of his backstory with the old man during their watch.
There was a riot when the authorities broke the strike, and his co-worker died in front of him.
Everything about the scheme is gross and hard to watch, but its part of cop Jun-hos investigation.
The entire operation screams, How long could they keep this up?
showing how different it is from the game.
Before killing the man, he explains that theyre dying because they broke his guiding principle for the game.
Equality, he calls it.
Everyone is equal while they play this game.
Here, the players get to play a fair game under the same conditions.
And you broke that principle.
On the first watch, the speech just vaguely set off my bullshit radar.
Eventually, I remembered thatequality vs. equity cartoonthat explains why equality is such an empty concept.
Women and elderly players are at a natural disadvantage with games like red light, green light and tug-of-war.
Whether or not the players can keep their balance is their problem, not his.
The casual racism/xenophobia from Mi-nyeo toward Ali is unfortunate but not totally unexpected.
More than two mentions of the word barricade, and I start hummingLes Miz.
Lee Jung-jae is such an expressive facial actor.
The close-up when Gi-hun realizes the other team is about to die at his hands was so good.
