[Niamh.]

just saw these for sale on a FB ad

[arista]

A Report on WION HD
showed a Squid Game Store opening in Paris
and people started Fighting to get in.

[arista]

A report on TRTworldHD
showed So many poor now in South Korea
as for 10 years up to 2020
they overloaded the amount of Credit Cards.

So no wonder Squid Game
possible future fits that nation.

[Cherie]

Genius story line albeit a bit gory

[LeatherTrumpet]

Youtube video

[Mystic Mock]

I've finally got around to watching the pilot.

So far pilot for pilot I feel that Alice In Borderland had the much better pilot as it establishes the game and the supporting characters much better imo, and personally I feel like Arisu has started off as the stronger lead.

Squid Game imo picked up in the last 10-15 minutes of the episode, so hopefully it'll pick up from there for me, plus build on it significantly.

In fairness to Squid Game though, it's first episode was better than Yellowstone, Midnight Mass, Sweet Tooth or The Witcher Season 2's first episodes, which have all been the live action Shows that I've seen recently away from Alice In Borderland & Squid Game itself.

[Niamh.]

The first episode is the worst one, it gets better from 2 on

[parmnion]

Easy twist to figure out..but a joyful journey.

Reminded me of the fa cup, when your team gets beat in the semis.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

The first episode is the worst one, it gets better from 2 on

I quit the Show after episode 2.

It's just a Drama masquerading as a Death Game Show imo, and I never understand why Shows do stuff like that because the Show would be so much better just embracing it's Drama side (as that's clearly what it wants to be) but instead is having to pretend that it has these death game components which makes the Drama side look silly imo.

I get that the Show is a huge hit so the writers won't care, but I'm gonna predict that it's second Season will go the way of TWD, Heroes & The Sinner where some people start questioning the quality of an already dodgy product imo.

[Niamh.]

Twd s2 was my favourite actually

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Twd s2 was my favourite actually

TWD was great all the way up to S4 and I still enjoy it to be fair, even if it is a little sillier now and basically Superheroes vs Zombies .

I don't see how anyone could say that S2 highlighted an "already dodgy product" though, S2 was great and S1 was iconic for the time. I think everyone has become a bit "zombied out" since then but on release TWD S1 was EASILY top-tier television.

[Toy Soldier]

Back on the topic of Squid Game... we decided to let my daughter watch the first episode. She asked again and it bizarrely sort of highlighted just how much the first 6 months of high school has changed her. We were like "Nah no chance" just a few months back when it was released... and then this time we could barely remember why we were all that bothered?

As predicted (we told her it wasn't all fun 'n' bloody games and that the rest would go over her head) - she found the actual plotline boring and didn't even bother with the 2nd episode

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

TWD was great all the way up to S4 and I still enjoy it to be fair, even if it is a little sillier now and basically Superheroes vs Zombies .

I don't see how anyone could say that S2 highlighted an "already dodgy product" though, S2 was great and S1 was iconic for the time. I think everyone has become a bit "zombied out" since then but on release TWD S1 was EASILY top-tier television.

A lot of people at the time were complaining that Season 2 had pacing issues on the farm, and hated Lori as a character, two aspects (pacing issues & Lori) that were very prominent issues in the first Season as well, but imo people were so excited about a Zombie Show actually existing that people initially ignored it's flaws.

Having said that though I'd still take TWD over some of the Shows that I'm seeing lately though as at least it's style creates discussion, Shows like Squid Game, Yellowstone & Midnight Mass are hard to even stay awake to sit through imo.

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

A lot of people at the time were complaining that Season 2 had pacing issues on the farm, and hated Lori as a character, two aspects (pacing issues & Lori) that were very prominent issues in the first Season as well, but imo people were so excited about a Zombie Show actually existing that people initially ignored it's flaws.

Having said that though I'd still take TWD over some of the Shows that I'm seeing lately though as at least it's style creates discussion, Shows like Squid Game, Yellowstone & Midnight Mass are hard to even stay awake to sit through imo.

I'd agree that Lori wasn't a great character, it's also had pacing issues all the way through but that's a frequent issue with broadcast shows, another thing that works much better with "full season drop" streaming, the main plotlines can be better paced across the episode run and you end up with fewer "filler" episodes.