Mad at: Squid Game (2021) 2021-10-21

0:00:10
Unknown_00: What a great introduction to a show. We have wonderful music, we have interesting cinematography, we have mystery and character design. There's a whole lot going on and a whole lot to appreciate. It's no wonder why every zoomer on the planet is talking about this show right now.

0:00:44
Unknown_00: What could go wrong, I wonder to myself aloud.

Unknown_00: Well, that doesn't bode well for it. People have been watching anime for a long time, but after Parasite won the Oscars last year, I think a lot of attention in the West has been brought to the East. Western media has kind of been shitty and terrible. Nobody watches Western media anymore except the most brain damaged and desperate of consumers.

Unknown_00: This sudden spike in interest in Korean media is also a great excuse for international media conglomerates to sink their teeth directly into the market and inject their core beliefs into the Korean people's brains. And boy oh boy does this show have some shit in it that you would never see in a Korean show unless Netflix was involved. I would like to like Korean media, because it's not Japan, and it's not anime, and doesn't have shit like this in it.

0:01:22
Unknown_00: But South Korea shares a lot of problems that Europe does. Namely, any corporation willing to spend the money can indoctrinate the people with whatever media they want. Oh well, at least we have best Korea still. They have never made a bad movie. And before any of you people start accusing me of taking sides of Korea over Japan, just know that I've already joined the winning team.

0:02:03
Unknown_00: Long live the great and glorious Chinese Communist Party!

Unknown_00: So the first episode is probably the strongest. Not only do they establish all the characters that end up being the main players in the game pretty much, but they also establish the motivations of the main character and why he wants to play in a life or death situation. They establish him as a loser, they establish him as a deeply flawed person, but someone who is probably good-spirited and just wants the best for himself, but finds himself in a bad situation of his own design. He has a gambling addiction, and instead of just buying his daughter a birthday present, he tries to win her one with a claw machine. This is pretty clever.

0:02:40
Unknown_00: For simplicity's sakes, I'll refer to them as their player numbers in the game because they have Korean names and I can't pronounce those. The main character is number 456. His most pressing issues can all be fixed with money. He has gambling debts, his young daughter is being taken to America, his mother can't afford her diabetes treatment, and he's behind on loans. In a chase scene where he's running from his debtors, he bumps into 067 who's the main female character in the show. She's a defector from North Korea and needs money to get her family into South Korea. Even though you can't see it here, she actually picks his pocket using a knife to steal money from his coat. While on his way home to the subway, a strange man approaches him and challenges him to a game of chance. The man offers to let him avoid paying his debts by simply letting him slap him. So this is how the game master is tasked if someone's willing to use their body and their health to win money.

0:03:10
Unknown_02: You don't have any money? Money... Then you can burn it with your body.

Unknown_19: With my body?

0:03:47
Unknown_00: The Game Master, of course, knew going into this that he didn't have the money to pay. It was all a setup. Throughout the series, they sort of have omnipotence and omniscience, which is okay, because in this instance, it's narratively satisfying. The contest ends with the Game Master giving him a card and inviting him to call to join some sort of event where he could earn a lot of money. Not wanting to lose a kidney to his debt collectors and afraid for his mom's health because she has diabetes, he agrees and calls them. And that is how he ends up in the Squid Game.

Unknown_00: So now we're halfway through the first episode and we get introduced to the remaining characters. Player 1 is an old man who explains that he has a brain tumor and is going to die, so he has nothing to lose.

0:04:23
Unknown_00: We also immediately meet the main villain within the actual group of players, who's Player 101. I think he's Filipino or some shit, and he has prior history with Player 67. They also establish that he's a massive fucking asshole and is willing to beat women for apparently no reason.

Unknown_00: The Pinkies show up for the first time almost immediately after this, and they don't really do anything to stop the violence, which establishes that the Game Masters don't particularly care about violence between the players. So while their introduction is very mysterious and cool, it really undermines the concept that the game is supposed to be fair. When you have a game like this, you want the Game Masters to be stricters to the rules, and they want the competition to be a real competition, but they don't particularly seem to enforce any kind of boundaries. so the first thing the pinkies do is compel everyone to sign a contract for their body the contract has three clauses number one a player is not allowed to stop playing number two a player who refuses to play will be eliminated and rule three the game may be terminated if the majority of players agree to stop playing

0:05:47
Unknown_00: While it's an interesting ruleset, it's not particularly airtight, nor is it very innovative. It's definitely not a Fight Club ruleset. I don't think that these rules are going to have any particular cultural significance like Asimov rules do. The rules are probably the most disappointing part of the entire series. There's a lot that you can do with a ruleset, and when you have a ruleset, the audience starts looking at ways that the rules apply to every scene that they see. but they're not really invoked in any clever or meaningful way throughout the series.

0:06:23
Unknown_00: As we enter into the first game, we meet a childhood friend of the main character, number 218, or Sangwoo, who has the easiest name to pronounce. Sangwoo comes off as a very calculating, cold, and intelligent person throughout the entire series. I'll talk to you next time.

Unknown_14: Spoiler, the games are Death Trap.

0:07:05
Unknown_00: As I sit here watching this in review, I can't help but wonder what it is about our docile ways that would draw us to such extreme violence. As we sit powerless in our rooms as the machinations of the governments of the world maul us into a fine dust, what could we possibly find so attractive about this mass violence on my screen?

Unknown_00: Ah, piles of bodies. How satisfying. What we really need is some classical jazz to set the mood. Hold my hand In other worlds

0:07:59
Unknown_07: Darling, kiss me Fill my heart with song And let me sing forevermore You are all I long for All I worship and adore

Unknown_00: As we all sit and wait for nothing to happen, as nothing burger after nothing burger passes through the TV, nothing truly ever changes, all the Zoomers gather around their Netflix subscription to watch Life and Death Consequences, a true fantasy, in 2021.

Unknown_00: Not only is the scene great, not only is the cinematography great, not only is the music great, but every character is showing how they deal with stress and serious situations that require concentration and quick decision making. And it ends, of course, with the introduction to our final main character. In other words, please be true.

0:08:56
Unknown_00: So our main character is saved by 199, or as I could call him, Ali Abdul, a Pakistani immigrant living in Korea whose only motivation is to make money to keep his family in Korea, his new home. He is, without a doubt, the nicest character in the entire show. He's basically a golden retriever as a brown person, and he does nothing wrong to anyone, and, spoiler, is taken advantage of by the end of the film.

0:09:33
Unknown_00: So the killer robot mops up the remainders, and the pink guys kill everyone who didn't make it in time. And that's basically the end of episode one. This is as good as it gets. It's all downhill from here.

Unknown_00: As far as the episodes go, episode 2 is pretty okay, but you can start to see the edges being frayed. The elements that stay strong throughout the entire series are the cinematography and the music. Though some songs do get pretty repetitive, everything seems to have a theme to it. So after being traumatized by the first game, they start to reconsider if they want to play, and, after having a little bit of discussion, 218 stands up and informs everybody that they can have a vote to leave the games, so reinforcing the fact that he's the clever person who thinks in a legalistic business sense.

0:10:48
Unknown_00: The issue with trying to build suspense around a vote like this is that we're on part two of a nine part series. So clearly the vote's going to not pass and the games are going to continue. The driving force should be that most people here are losers and the money is worth the risk of dying to them. The idea that they could leave at any time but simply choose not to because they want the money is interesting. However, the show decides to go about this in the weirdest and least satisfying way possible. They do decide to have a vote, but the vote and the consequences of it are bizarre.

0:11:28
Unknown_00: When I watched this the first time, I already knew that the old man was going to be the linchpin in this. It would be a perfect 50-50 vote, and he would be the tiebreaker. In the first episode, he was the only person seen to enjoy the games, so it makes sense that he would be some sort of weird final vote.

Unknown_00: While trying to build suspense, it also has a flashback to when he said he had a tumor, as if that wasn't obvious, as if that wasn't the last episode, which is pretty disrespectful. It takes a full two minutes for him to dramatically press the button, which ends the game.

0:12:03
Unknown_00: To its credit, this was pretty unexpected because they kind of reverse set it up so that you expect him to want to continue to play the game, seeing as he has nothing left to lose. Now they have a problem where they have to kill some fucking time because they're getting kicked off the island and the games have stopped. The real issue with this is that it doesn't make any sense. I can believe that an evil company can abduct a bunch of weirdos and put them on an island. I have trouble believing that that company can then release those weirdos to the main population and corral them back to the game later.

0:12:53
Unknown_00: Episode 2 is titled Hell and it's kind of implied that the real hell is their lives. They go back to the mundanity of being poor and desperate and needing money and they want to return to the game because there was opportunity to make cash by risking their lives.

Unknown_00: However, the whole episode feels unnecessary and just adds convolution where there doesn't need to be any. The main character goes to the police and tries to describe what happened to him, and the police obviously don't believe his story, but a detective overhears it and starts an investigation. This starts a side plot throughout the series, which doesn't really make any sense and doesn't really conclude to anything in particular.

0:13:32
Unknown_00: so all in all episode 2 wasn't too stupid but it did add a ton of unnecessary things and was kind of boring compared to the rest of the show the main purpose of episode 2 is to add more backstory to the other characters that weren't explained in episode 1 but it feels clumsy and lazy the point is that their lives suck and they need money and we could have guessed that because they were in the game to begin with

Unknown_00: Episode 3 starts with a detective that I mentioned before sneaking into the game by climbing into one of the vehicles. One of the shitty things that the series does and that starts with episode 3 is that it starts to ruin the strangeness of the pink guys. The corporate structure of the game begins to get explained through the side plot with this detective character. He manages to kill one of the pink guys and assume their identity. Because they don't have identities, it's pretty easy. My issue with this side plot is that there's no reason to care. The structure of the pink guys is not important. The game is what's important and the interaction between the characters is what's important. Trying to explain their motivations and how they work and that the people behind the mask are people is just stupid. Not because having depthful villains is stupid, but because it distracts from the main characters and muddies the waters. The ultimate conclusion to this side plot is stupid. The entire reason is to reveal who the VIPs are at the end. This honestly just feels like some shit that Netflix wanted. I show the main characters being dressed and go to great lengths to explain how 6-7 got a knife. The payoff for this sucks.

0:15:02
Unknown_00: I actually lied when I said that Ali was the last main character that they introduce. They introduce a second villain within the prisoners, who is this woman. This woman is the most annoying character ever. I don't know why she's in this. She sucks. I understand that she's being directed to be annoying, but she's actually very good at it. She puts on this crazy face with three whites, and she just looks absolutely psychotic all the fucking time. Her number is 212, and instead of just letting her shit herself, they decide to oblige her screaming and allow her into the restroom unescorted. 6-7 comes with her, and she explores the ducts above the building. They manage to see the kitchen, but no real useful information comes from it, and there's not really any point to the sequence at all. It's just kind of an annoying waste of time. I just can't fucking stand her.

0:15:37
Unknown_00: get it she's saying that it's hard for her to go poopoo maybe i owe anime an apology after all

0:16:23
Unknown_00: Never mind. Then finally, a third subplot is added. For some reason, this doctor is getting notes from the kitchen staff, which include instructions about what the next game will be. I'm just going to spoil this. There is an organ harvesting operation, and some of the pinkies are selling organs to the Chinese. That is not an exaggeration. That is literally what's happening. The second game is some weird Korean thing where you have to pick a shape out of a little cookie without breaking the cookie, otherwise you die. However, this automatically establishes that the games aren't very fair. You have to pick a shape without knowing the game. If you're going to be playing a game, you should know the rules of the game before you start playing. Otherwise, it's just happenstance, which seems to be contrary to the whole point of making people play a game. You don't play Blackjack without knowing the rules of Blackjack. An example of what could have been done instead is to tell people the rules of the game beforehand and let them pick harder shapes to get rewards for the next game, or something similar to that. Unfortunately, this is one of the big shortcomings of Squid Games in general. The games essentially boil down to games of chance instead of skill. Then, instead of just focusing on making very interesting games with very interesting characters that have to make very interesting choices, they simply fill up the time with all these subplots about discovering what's happening behind the scenes, when really what's happening behind the scenes should be a well-orchestrated game operation. An issue with this game in particular is that some people die because they're startled by the gunshots when people are killed, so that's not really fair either. But just check out this ASMR though.

0:18:11
Unknown_00: Ah, the Koreans are masters at it. Anyways, despite getting a very difficult shape, the umbrella, the main character figures out that you can just lick through the back and break off the pieces without any problems. So he survives and a lot of people copy his tactic.

Unknown_00: Just look at that technique. This guy's a pro.

Unknown_00: Time to clean up the leftovers. Bro, I know.

0:18:43
Unknown_08: That's what I've been saying.

Unknown_00: So Face Guy comes in and shoots him in the head and establishes once again that this is a place with firm rules even though the rules aren't really that firm. They don't really get enforced in a way that's fair or equitable. Overall, a bit of a letdown episode. The first one was great, and the second one started to show its edges, but the third one could have saved it, but it just kept this dissent of adding more stupid shit that doesn't really pay off in the end. Maybe the later episodes could have redeemed these ones by adding satisfying arcs to all the things that they begin to set up, but it never really happens.

0:19:16
Unknown_00: Episode 4 is called Stick to the Team and this is when the show really begins to fall apart. So let's take a look at the first game. The mechanism that punishes people for failing is a machine, so it's entirely fair and adheres to the rules. The real villain is going to be the characters and their greed. The actual threat is the game itself. The game with the honey cookies mostly adheres to this, but the pink guys become more involved in doling out the consequences of failing the game.

0:19:49
Unknown_00: Episode 4 is where this completely falls apart because now there's yet another anime. This time it's other players. You really wouldn't expect the game to be about killing each other outside the arena but for some reason in episode 4 they decide to focus entirely on this. This starts with the Game Masters giving all the players a single piece of bread, but they don't do anything to stop the players from getting back in line. Naturally, Player 101, the asshole, goes back in the line and steals more food, which results in the players at the end of the line not getting any food at all. This is revealed to be intentional. The Game Masters want players to steal from each other and they want players to be hungry by the time the next game starts.

0:20:23
Unknown_00: Again, this really undermines the whole point that this is supposed to be an egalitarian system where everybody has a fair shot, because some people are simply disadvantaged. This climaxes with player 101 killing the guy who didn't get any food.

0:21:02
Unknown_00: Everybody expects that the Pinkies will interrupt and stop him from being murdered, but they don't. So this establishes that you can just kill people without consequence in the game.

Unknown_08: But if you're going to hit him, you're going to hit him! If you're going to kill him like this, you're going to hit him!

Unknown_00: while his body gets taken away the pinkies are busy at work down in the catacombs i've got a perfect puzzle for you if you are wise you'll listen to me

0:21:46
Unknown_00: Federal police guy is stealing masks from higher ranking pinkies and he's managing to pull off the facade without any issues. He ends up in this room where the doctor is harvesting organs for the Chinese organ harvesting thing. The agreement is that he gets bonus tips for the next game if he does his job harvesting the organs for the Chinese. None of this really amounts to anything as far as the main players are concerned and it's more just an excuse to show the inner going ones with the pinkies.

0:22:23
Unknown_00: Naturally, the other players are scared shitless of the fucking murderer who's allowed to wander about and they start to make plans to make teams. Sangwoo begins to establish his rapport with Ali.

Unknown_00: This is also when they begin to establish that the main character wants to protect Player One, who is the old and feeble man with the brain tumor.

Unknown_02: The pinkies give the doctor his tip in a note stuck inside a boiled egg and I have no fucking idea how they do this because he has to pull the shell off.

0:23:03
Unknown_00: It advises him to make strong friends so he ends up in the team with the asshole.

Unknown_17: Don't breathe. 101 breaks the first roll of bro code and sticks his dick in crazy.

Unknown_00: There is then an unbearably long 5 minute nighttime sequence where random characters die and none of the main characters are in trouble. The only thing that really changes is that 6-7 loses her knife. So they spent an entire episode setting up that she smuggles this knife into the arena after they come back the second time and there is no point to it. She uses it to sneak into the ducks in the second episode but she doesn't learn anything and nothing changes and that knife was completely pointless. The only thing this does is further undermine the integrity of the games. They should be fair, they should be at competition, they should not be random chants, and there should not be random violence at night for no reason.

0:23:37
Unknown_00: At this point, why would the contestants even believe that the game masters are going to give them the money if they win? There's no reason to. The contract didn't say anything about players being allowed to kill each other. I don't care how much money I needed or how much I needed it. After this night, I would call a vote to get out of this game. I would not trust in the integrity of the competition and I would not trust them to give me my money if I actually won. the strobe lights finally turn off and the pink guys finally arrive to stop the violence only after the old man gives an inappropriately emotional speech which kind of makes you wonder why the game master would be swayed by such a speech at all it does kind of set up something about player one but at the time it just felt weird

0:24:52
Unknown_00: So the third game begins and the instructor tells them to break up into groups of 10 people. This is when the design of the games really comes into question because there's several things about this one which are pretty shitty. The game is a competition between teams, so having seven teams means that one team has to play twice for it to be fair. They don't show what happens and they don't explain it, so I think the script just wants you to forget about it. The way this all plays out makes me think that the game was chosen backwards. They already had a specific sequence of events they wanted to incorporate into the script, and they had to find a game that kinda sorta matches what they were going for. Sangwoo warns the main character that because it's a team game, Min will probably do better. Despite this, all the main characters end up on the same team, including 67 and the old man. Despite being asked to only invite other men onto the team, 67 ends up inviting another woman who looks like the product of too much cosmetic surgery.

0:25:29
Unknown_01: How the fuck do you get your face to look like that?

Unknown_00: I won't accept being Korean as an answer. I was really hoping that there would be a twist to this where the old man somehow becomes a much bigger asset than he ends up being. While they do try to be clever and make him more of an asset, it would have been better to simply have the stronger team that the asshole ends up on. All in all, this was the game that made me realize that this series is actually kinda shit, because it could've been clever and interesting, but it simply chose not to be. Player101 then decides that after sticking his dick in crazy, he's also gonna fuck with her and continue his pattern of domestic violence towards women.

0:26:07
Unknown_05: Now let's watch that with the official English dub.

Unknown_09: I need you. Old man, can't you see that?

Unknown_12: Get up!

Unknown_12: God, this bitch so pathetic. Get your hands off me. Stop calling me babe and old man, huh? Call me that one more fucking time and I'll cut your goddamn throat out!

0:26:45
Unknown_00: I guess they called Funimation for the voice actors. However, I would also like to take this moment to address the controversy regarding the subtitles. Apparently they translate a lot of metaphors too literally, and while I understand that that can be distracting, the main issues with this show have nothing to do with certain awkward lines or muddled motivation. The entire thing is undercut by irregularities and inconsistent rules in a game that doesn't really make any sense and is unfair and contrary to the point of what a game should be. If all those things were cleared up and it was just awkward dialogue, then subtitles would become the main issue. But that's not the case here at all. The subtitles were just fine with the version that I watched. Blaming the subtitles here is just a rationalization for why you don't like the show. It's like blaming Jar Jar for why the prequels are bad. The prequels are bad because they're bad. Jar Jar is a symptom of the prequels being bad. He is not why the prequels are bad. The subtitles represent a bad script.

0:27:23
Unknown_09: You betrayed me. You're dead now, got that?

Unknown_00: Oh, I'm so scared.

Unknown_19: So, the third game is tug-of-war.

0:28:01
Unknown_00: Not exactly a mind-bender. In fact, this is the exact opposite of something that can be considered clever. The women and the old man are going to do worse than everybody else simply because they're less physically capable playing the game. And then, to top it off, they draw a lot to determine which team is going to play. He draws two at a time, one team dies, and one team wins and proceeds back to the waiting area. So what happens to the team that doesn't get picked? One team obviously cannot be selected to play the game. They literally never explain what happens to the last team that never gets picked. Do they just get shot? Like, what the fuck happens? In fact, I was so confused about this, I went ahead into the next episode and tried to figure out how many people were still alive, because the billboard shows how many people are still alive. The board shows 40 players, and I've carefully scanned through that entire episode to make sure that nobody else dies. So what they're saying is that the fourth team didn't have to play a game at all. That really just sort of amplifies how unfair the entire thing is.

0:28:36
Unknown_00: Even the construction of this game sucks. The idea is that you have to pull them off the platform, but since everyone's chained to the rope, they can't just let go after the fact. So what happens is that a giant guillotine comes down and cuts the rope after they start dangling. But there's still a risk of the other team falling to their death right here. I mean, all that weight coming down at once, surely they could be pulled down with them, with the force of gravity and everything. I don't know, it just seems really fucking stupid. I also just don't like how this is player versus player. So now they have to directly kill each other. I don't know, that doesn't seem fair either. In this case, it's literally just who's strongest. The old man gives some advice to win the game when they come up to play, but it just feels like bullshit. If the other team had just been much stronger, it doesn't matter what tactics they use, they would have been pulled to their death. So it's kind of fucking gay.

0:29:49
Unknown_00: To make matters worse, the old man isn't even the one who gives the idea on how to win. He has some ideas, but Sangwoo is the one who takes control and tells them how to beat the other team. Finally, to prove once and for all they're truly running on fumes, this episode is a cliffhanger.

0:30:28
Unknown_00: Surprise, the team entirely comprised of main characters is the one that wins.

Unknown_00: But look, they're literally falling right now because the other team is dragging them down. It's entirely reasonable to believe a team could die on accident right here just because they got pulled down before the guillotine fell. Ironically, this episode is called A Fair World, and there's a reason for that, but it's not because of the games, obviously. Episode 5 is one of the shortest in the entire series, at only 45 minutes. This is primarily because nothing happens. This episode is entirely dedicated to the side plots. The federal investigator tries to figure out what happened to his brother, who he believes was a participant in one of the games. Meanwhile, the doctor has a falling out with the pink guy selling organs to the Chinese. The frontman had learned that someone was giving information to the players about upcoming games, so he put in extra effort to make sure that even the staff would not know what game was next.

0:31:07
Unknown_00: The doctor is already tired and frustrated, so when he learns he won't even be giving information about the next game, he freaks out and the entire operation gets exposed to the frontman. Before executing the pink guy responsible for selling the organs, he diatribes about how the game is fair and everyone is given an equal chance to win. But they're really not.

Unknown_00: The women are weaker than men. The old guy is weaker than everybody else. If it's just a competition of strength, it's not really that fair. And if it's just a gamble, then what's the point? Two-Face from Batman says that random is fair and that a coin flip is about as fair as fair can get. Whether you agree with that or not, that's his philosophy. The frontman is trying to pretend that these games are fair when they're very clearly biased towards stronger people. I mean you're allowed to kill people in their sleep, so how is that fair to anyone?

0:31:42
Unknown_00: After personally executing the staff member that were selling the organs to the Chinese, he then lets the pink guys kill the prisoner that were harvesting the organs.

0:32:22
Unknown_00: I don't know what the significance is in this decision, but it happens.

Unknown_00: The only development in this episode affecting the main characters is that Player 1, the old man, starts getting very sick, and it shows that the main character, and even the chick, 67, are very sympathetic towards the situation and his health.

Unknown_00: Aside from that, the rest of the episode is pointless filler and subplots.

Unknown_00: One thing that Asian people are very good at is emotional manipulation. Japanese media in particular is some of the most emotionally manipulative stuff that you can possibly watch. Episode 6 is titled Ganbu, or We're Gonna Fuck With Your Head. The old man had wet himself overnight, so our main character reestablishes that he's a good guy that has sympathy for others by giving him his coat to cover up the shame.

0:33:00
Unknown_00: So even though things are getting kind of shitty, the show is still capable of delivering some cool moments like this.

Unknown_19: What you see now is the last of those who broke the rules of this world for their own benefit and tarnished the purity of this world.

0:33:37
Unknown_00: Supposedly this show is supposed to be anti-capitalistic, which is why Netflix picked it up at all. The games being not fair is maybe a parallel to how capitalism is not fair. While capitalism is supposed to be fair and egalitarian, with everyone having free and equal access to make their own wealth, people are at disadvantages inherently because of who they are. That might be reflected in the games, but the contradictions just seem like poor writing if that's the case. Because of how blunt and stupid something coming up is, I doubt it's that nuanced. The next game requires teams, and because the narrator uses the term team, people think they'll be playing competitively between teams and not within teams. As a result, the two women pair up, Song Wu and Ali pair up, and the main character ends up pairing with the old man. While the old man is thought to be a detriment, someone points out that there's an odd number of people. Since the doctor was killed overnight, there are now 39 players instead of 40, which means that someone won't be able to get on the team. It's assumed that that person will be killed if they're not picked. So while the old man gets picked out of charity, the crazy bitch does not.

0:34:18
Unknown_14: You guys are making a mistake! Do you really think you can win without me?

0:34:57
Unknown_14: Definitely do not want to tie my life to you.

Unknown_08: I've got another puzzle for you.

Unknown_06: Do you blame when your kid is a rat pampered and spoiled like a Siamese cat? Blaming the kids is a lie and a shame. You know exactly who's to blame.

0:35:34
Unknown_00: So the entire episode is just emotional manipulation. The pairs are actually playing marbles against each other and not between teams. You start with 10 marbles, and the goal is to have 20 marbles before 30 minutes is up. To save time, I'll briefly summarize what happens to each of the pairs that matter. Player 101 wins his competition against his partner fair and square. There's a really cool shot here that I like.

0:36:24
Unknown_00: Good stuff. 67 and her female partner decide to talk about feelings for literally 27 minutes before betting all or nothing in one round. 240 intentionally throws her game. She says that she has no reason to live, but that 67 has a family, so she should get the money. The thing that I really hate about this entire segment is that we don't really know anything about 240 except that she's had an abundant amount of plastic surgery. She doesn't seem to value her own life at all, so why should I care about her sacrifice? 67 as a character is also underdeveloped, but at least she has goals.

0:37:18
Unknown_00: Sungwoo loses his marbles to Ali fair and square. But Sungwoo tricks him and gets him to accept a packet of stones instead while he takes the marbles. He then tells the guards that he took the stones and that he has all 20 marbles. The fact that he didn't win doesn't matter and that they should kill him. The guards agree and they do kill him.

Unknown_00: This is the Pakistani immigrant, and I think it's very intentional that they have the Korean character kill him in the most unfair and underhanded way possible. This is a pro-immigrant statement, I think. South Korea isn't particularly favorable to immigrants, so portraying them as trusting Labrador Retrievers while the Koreans are manipulative and evil is a good way of gaining pro-immigrant sentiment.

0:38:11
Unknown_00: Throughout the episode, they cut back to the main character and Player 1. Player 1 is losing his mental faculties, and he's not entirely aware of what's going on throughout the episode. However, what could have been a very impactful and emotional segment is instead very frustrating. Clearly, the only fair thing that could happen here is for the main character to win. Player 1 is old and sick and it's just time to die. So you have a couple ways that you could do this. Player 1 could decide by himself that he's going to lose. Just give him the marbles and spend the 30 minutes talking about his life. That would be pretty sad by itself. The main character could also just take the marbles. If he doesn't know what's going on, there's no reason to play any games with him. He could simply just ask him, hey, can I have your marbles? I want to play a game with someone. And the old man would probably let him borrow his marbles.

0:38:45
Unknown_00: This idea wasn't explored at all, so if he's somehow very protective over his marbles, that's not explained in the show. Instead, the main character never uses anything clever at all to get the marbles from the old man. He even resorts to violence to get the old man to play with him, which makes you wonder why he didn't just seize the marbles physically if he's going to throw them against the wall anyways.

0:39:22
Unknown_09: Oh, shit! I'm begging you to come to your senses! If you stay like this, we'll all die!

Unknown_00: As a result, instead of any sentimentality, the episode is just very frustrating because there are things that the main character could be doing that he's not. Also, instead of playing a game that requires any skill whatsoever, they play a game where you essentially just guess odd or even and bet. This game is effectively the only one he could have chosen that would give him an opportunity to lose, especially considering the main character says he knows how to play marbles anyways. So play any other game that's not just random chance. So right before the main character loses, the old man loses his memory entirely, and he has to be remembered of what he guessed as they play. This gives the main character an opportunity to just lie. This is effectively the same thing as just deceiving him and asking for his bag of marbles to begin with, but they do it this way so that there's some tension and there's a reason for him to wander off and add sentimentality to the episode where there otherwise wouldn't be.

0:39:53
Unknown_00: So all in all there's a bunch of different things they could have done to make this a great episode and somehow they missed all of them. The whole reason for this tortured logic is so that there could be a scene at the end where the old man explains he knew what was going on the entire time and just wanted to make the main character feel bad for lying to him. I actually expected the opposite to happen initially where he would tell the truth and the old man would simply reward him for that by giving him his marbles. However, that would be too clever, so they went with this. Despite the flaws throughout the episode, the ending remains very sentimental, and I think that's entirely because of the acting and the music.

0:40:32
Unknown_11: It's okay. Everything will be okay.

0:41:43
Unknown_00: All in all, a strong episode carried more by its themes than the particulars of the script.

Unknown_00: Episode 7 is where it gets bad. Not only is this the worst game in the entire series, but they also introduce a bunch of new characters that are just Netflix anti-white bashing. Squid Games is obviously very influenced by Hunger Games, if only because of the VIPs. While the main characters are dying in the games, the VIPs are safe and offering commentary like they do in the Hunger Games. Now despite the fact that this is a Korean show, and all the characters have been Korean, except for one Pakistani guy, would you like to take a guess at what ethnicity the people who are VIPs are going to be?

0:42:25
Unknown_00: If you guessed rich white people, you win. I think there's also one Chinese guy, but the rest of them are white. The evil rich white people literally use naked women as furniture throughout the entire show. Could say that this is simply a commentary on capitalism, how the very rich don't view people as people at all. However, the fact that they're white makes me think that this is not just a commentary on capitalism. This is also the only part of the entire show where they speak English. God damn it, just tell us about the next game. How long you gonna string us along like this?

0:42:58
Unknown_03: He's in a bad mood because of 69. Better tell him quickly. Very well. Let me introduce the next game.

Unknown_00: I said that this is the worst game in the entire show, and I was not joking. There are 18 glass tiles, there's a 50-50 chance of each step killing you, and there's 16 players left. Not only is this literally random chance, the game actively goes out of its way to make sure that there is no cleverness about how this is done. You would think the evil white people would want the most entertaining games, and not just ones that are random chance, but what do I know? I guess I'm not rich enough.

0:43:31
Unknown_14: Welcome to the 5th game. The 5th game is a cross-cutting game. There are two types of glass in front of you. It's a reinforced glass and a regular glass. The reinforced glass is strong enough to withstand the weight of two people, but the regular glass breaks even if one person goes up.

Unknown_00: So when I watched this the first time, I had several different ideas of how you could play this game. To its credit, someone does try to run across the glass as quickly as possible, and that doesn't work. However, nobody tries throwing anything. And the way that I see the crosswalk, I think, can't you just walk with one foot on each side? The Game Master says that the weight can't support one person with the normal glass, but can it support half a person? Nobody tries this. There's also thin pink metal strips holding up the glass. Can't you walk on those? They can obviously support multiple people's weight because they walk in single file on the glass they know is strong enough to support them. So clearly it can support a bunch of people at once. Can't you just tightrope across that without having to guess? Look at the middle. That's like the width of a person's shoulders. You could easily just walk down that normally as if you're just walking down the street. If it's electrified or something, they don't explain that. It's obviously not rounded. There's no spikes on it. You can clearly see that it's strong metal that supports everybody when they walk down the path. Why can't they walk on that? They don't even try to explain why they can't do that. i don't want to be nitpicky about fiction but when you have a movie that's based around a game like this the whole point of the game is that you place yourself into that situation that's why everyone holds their breath when someone goes underwater in a movie or a show to see if you could survive holding your breath for that long there's a reason why those jigsaw movies are so popular people start to try and solve the puzzle themselves but there is no puzzle here

0:45:35
Unknown_00: and the things that you come up with to beat the game never get explored they never even try it deprives the viewer of an entire layer of enjoyment when the game doesn't even try to explore ways that you could beat it without necessarily playing by the rules that you would expect i mean really why not just play fucking russian roulette at this point why does it have to be a convoluted glass thing One of the players even decides to calculate the odds of him actually beating the game from where he's at. And the odds are like 1 in 32,000.

Unknown_00: If you really crunch the numbers, the odds of the first player beating the game is 1 in 262,000. It is fucking ridiculous.

Unknown_00: The one player who's a glass maker has a way of using light to determine which ones are tempered glass and which ones are not. But the game master defeats this by turning off the fucking lights.

0:46:27
Unknown_03: Yeah, number 13 definitely sees something that the others can't. I think he's examining the refraction of the light.

Unknown_03: Let me adjust the settings.

Unknown_00: So the writers are actively going out of their way to defeat clever and intelligent things you could use to beat this game. But why? Why do that? It's either they just want to show how evil these white people are by making the game as unfair as possible, or they're going out of their way to make a certain set series of events in the script happen regardless of how logical it is or how narratively satisfying it is. And that's the issue. So not only are the white people rich and evil because they're rich and white, but they're also sex pests. As if the room of human furniture wasn't enough, one of the VIPs brings the detective up to another room to have him raped. I am not making this up. This is literally what happens. Evil white guys, of course, can't just be scuzzy rapists. They have to be scuzzy gay rapists. I actually thought this was very progressive. Finally, gay people can rape Asians too. He threatens him with having him killed, but luckily the detective thinks quickly and crushes his balls. Then, after stealing his gun, forces him to detail everything he knows into his camera phone at gunpoint.

0:47:37
Unknown_04: Tell me everything you know about the game.

Unknown_00: Meanwhile, 101 learns that you shouldn't stick your dick in crazy.

Unknown_05: You should have known better.

Unknown_00: It was the first thing my mom ever told me about girls.

Unknown_05: I need you to know, you've got such a tiny dick.

0:48:23
Unknown_13: oh yeah and i didn't mention this until now but there's also a religious character in the game who's considered like a joke because i guess in korea christianity is up on the rise so you got to make fun of that too otherwise people might not want pakistanis in our country and we can't have that

Unknown_00: So three people make it to the end of the game. The main character, Sangwoo, his childhood friend, and 67, the North Korean defector.

Unknown_00: And just to make sure that absolutely nothing about this is fair, once the timer hits zero, all the glass explodes and a huge piece of glass sticks into 67. So she's at a serious disadvantage by the time the next game starts. Meanwhile, the detective has escaped into the water using a diving kit. He's going up to the island above to set up a confrontation in the next episode.

0:49:11
Unknown_00: So Episode 8 is called The Frontman. The mysterious main character behind the games is exposed for who he truly is, and the final subplot ties itself up. Haven't you been curious to figure out who's behind the mask? No? Kind of better when he's anonymous, and it's just sort of like this mysterious corporation that pulls the strings? Well, that's too bad. We're going to figure out who he is, and it's not going to matter. So 6-7 is truly fucked. She has a giant piece of glass embedded in her colon and she's bleeding to death. In the last episode they showed the VIPs betting on who would win, kind of like horses, and I'm just imagining if they randomly shot a random horse at the beginning of each game before they could even start running. I really feel like if someone had bet on 6-7 they would find this very unfair because she didn't do anything wrong in the last game. Maybe they're just so rich and so evil and so white they don't even care if they lose money. I mean, she's only Asian, am I right? Fellow white people who are also evil? Even to libertarians, she's just a price tag. So all three of them get a fancy steak dinner. No medical attention, of course, just a steak dinner.

0:50:20
Unknown_00: Yeah, they did so splendid by guessing which towel to jump on.

Unknown_00: Each of them sneak their steak knife into their coat pocket before the dinner is over. And the main character notice was that 67 is not eating her steak. The most distracting thing to me about this is that 67 is wearing a bow tie. Since when do they give women a bow tie? I was actually very distracted by this and looked up bow ties and apparently women have worn them since the 1920s. So she's not just doing a Tucker Carlson cosplay. So at this point, Six, Seven, and the main character have a heart touching moment where they talk about their goals and ambitions together. It's pretty obvious that at this point the game is going to end with a single winner. They don't make that obvious at the beginning of the game, so none of them entering into it knew that they had to kill everybody else, but at this point it's pretty certain. When watching it for the first time, I was considering all the different ways that this could end to reach a satisfying or clever conclusion.

0:50:57
Unknown_00: The most obvious would be the fact that both 6ix7ine and the main character are on the same team, pretty much, and Sangwoo is by himself. They could theoretically call a Rule 3 vote and leave. 6ix7ine is dying because she's seriously injured and not getting any medical attention from the pink guys. There's no reason to assume that she can even survive unless she chooses to leave right now. In their discussions, they both kind of dwell on the fact that money won't fix their problems anyways. Even though it might be a little bit anticlimactic, having them leave now drives home an anti-capitalistic point that life is what you make of it, and money can't solve all problems. Because as long as they're alive, they can actually work to fix their problems. And because Sang-woo is the only person who murdered people actively to win the game, he'll be the only one with a guilty conscience. So, why not? Hey, we got along here. We survived. Why don't we try and build our lives back up together without the money? They're trying to shoehorn in a romantic subplot anyway, so why not do this? Why not have it that they want each other more than the money? She even says this. I want to live. Just call the fucking vote, Jesus Christ. But of course, this is too interesting, so they don't explore, and the decision is made for the main character, he can't go back. And what's additionally frustrating is that here, 67 stops the main character from killing Sang-woo in his sleep. But why? If she's going to die anyways, why even bother with this? I mean, really, just kill him and then try and end the game there. If they refuse to let you split the money, then just call the vote and with 100% of the vote, decide to leave without the money. And at this point, it looks like she's going to die anyways. So why not just kill him in his sleep, not have to worry about the next game, and talk to her until she dies? Because she's pretty fucked right now. It's so frustrating that they refuse to even explore these options because they would rather have a climactic final between Sang-woo and the main character.

0:53:19
Unknown_08: What are you doing?

Unknown_06: Hurry up!

0:54:05
Unknown_00: How frustrating. So not only do no interesting options exploiting the rules of the game happen, but he just kills her anyways. So what's the fucking point of the glass? He could have just snuck up on her while she's in her sleep. Why does she have to be injured for this? And why do they even allow her to die before the next game? What the fuck is the point of that? And they stop him from killing Sangwoo after she dies. Why is it okay for Sangwoo to kill her, but it's not okay for him to kill Sangwoo? What the fuck is the point of this?

Unknown_02: Please, Robin.

Unknown_02: Please! Please I can't breathe!

0:54:37
Unknown_06: Please man!

Unknown_00: So spliced in between all these shots between the main characters is the subplot where the federal investigator and face guy have a face off about what's happening on the island. He intends to send his chief of police the video of the gay evil white rich rapist confessing to the details of the game but there is no signal. So he decides that if he goes to the top of the mountain there will be a better signal there where he can send the video. Meanwhile, Face Guy is hot on his trail with a gang of pinkies. Despite the increase in altitude, the videos are not sending. And thus, the final confrontation begins. I surrender!

0:55:08
Unknown_20: I surrender! And this is a place where you and I don't get along.

Unknown_18: There is no escape. No recall or intervention can work in this place.

Unknown_20: What a fool you are.

0:55:46
Unknown_18: I'm a god. How can you kill a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence. How could you be so naive? Come, lay down your weapons. It is not too late for my mercy.

Unknown_00: And so the detective asks Face Guy the 45.6 billion won question.

Unknown_02: Who are you? Be careful.

Unknown_00: Aw, shit. It was his brother the whole time. He was never a contestant. He was the frontman. I can't believe this. What a twist. I was so invested in this detective character. Seeing the detective turn down his offer to stay alive makes me wonder if the theme of this is that they are so invested in either money, or winning the game, or being a part of the police agency, that they can't even value their own lives over their obsession. Maybe that's the moral. If it is, I didn't pick up on that the first time around, and it's not particularly clear this time around either. Even the frontman is more dedicated to being the frontman than to his own family. And those rich white people are more dedicated to gay rape. It all makes sense now. Bang.

0:56:48
Unknown_18: This is the end.

Unknown_18: The bitter, bitter end.

0:57:21
Unknown_00: And then there were two. Episode 9 is the last episode, and we're down to Sang-woo and the main character, whose name I finally figured out. It's Ji-hoon. They're going to face off, the childhood friends, the last of the last. The show kind of fumbled in a bunch of places, but I'm still at the edge of my seat when I'm watching this the first time. How are they going to conclude this? Is Ji-hoon going to do anything? Is he going to learn anything? Is he going to evolve as a person? Let's find out.

Unknown_00: So if you couldn't guess, the final game is going to be the squid game, which they kind of explain at the beginning of the show. It's pretty complicated. The gist is that someone has to hop on one leg, cross a line, put down both legs, and then get to the tip of the hat before the other person pushes them out of the circle.

0:57:57
Unknown_00: It's about as simple as Starcraft, but Koreans are fucking weird, I guess.

Unknown_03: Among all the games that kids played back then, it was the most physical and violent. So any kind of violence is allowed? Sure. There are no restrictions.

Unknown_00: They have a coin flip and the winner gets to decide if they want to be on offense or defense. Jihoon wins and decides to be on offense, which is sort of a departure from how he usually is. Jihoon tries to talk to Sangwoo like an old friend, but he is consumed by his desire to win the game.

0:58:29
Unknown_00: Even at this stage, I'm left wondering about the rules of the game. What if he had pocket-sanded Sangwoo and then just slit his throat standing on two feet? Would the pink guys then just, like, shoot him for cheating? Or, like, what's the deal here? Why not just have them fight on the ground?

0:59:11
Unknown_03: It sounds so romantic.

Unknown_00: Sangwoo explains that he killed 67 because he was afraid of Jihoon ending the game with her and not leaving with the money. But even if this was the case, it took Jihoon forever to come to the conclusion to have a vote. He never even called it, so what's the point?

Unknown_20: Sangwoo has nothing but pity for Sims.

Unknown_00: Jihoon tells Sangwoo that it was 67's decision not to have him killed while he was asleep. Not that it really matters, because he'd have had to kill her the next day anyways, or walk away from the money, which they could have done with just the two-thirds majority without killing Sangwoo, and she was probably mortally wounded regardless by that point. Life sure is more complicated when you don't stop and think about it for 30 seconds before doing something. He's now in full revengeance mode, and it's time for the climax of a movie, an epic brawl between two gambling addicts for the amusement of rich white evil people. With the rules of the Squid Game having near zero impact with how these two fight, it makes you wonder why the rich people don't just find two homeless people, make them each swallow a key, give them a knife, and have them sort out the lock by themselves. I mean, that's more interesting, it's much cheaper, and much easier to get away with. I guess you can't be all hoity-toity and drink champagne while doing it, though. Actually, you probably could if you thought about it and did it right.

1:00:26
Unknown_00: Anyways, the point is that Jihoon wins, and instead of killing Sangwoo, which he probably fucking deserves, he decides to spare him at the last second. Though this very clearly establishes that Jihoon is a good person, and he cannot bring himself to kill his childhood friend, even though it means that he would get a lot of money, even though Sangwoo deserves it, even though Sangwoo killed his girlfriend, kind of. Jihoon is just not that kind of person. He is not a murderer. He does not have a revengeant streak in him. Do you understand? This game is over. Yep, that about wraps it up. And so, as Jihoon walks slowly to the tip of the squid to claim Banzai and win the game and the money, the pink guy lines up a shot on Sangwoo, and then... What is he doing?

1:00:59
Unknown_21: What the hell is going on? The game is over. If the two of us give up, this is where it ends. 456 wants to stop the game.

1:01:30
Unknown_00: Rose before hoes, am I right? Right here at the very edge of victory.

Unknown_02: No fucking way. Let's go.

Unknown_20: Let's go home. Bro.

Unknown_20: I'm sorry.

Unknown_00: And then as one final insult to the audience, Sangwoo kills himself so that Jihoon doesn't have to kill anybody. He doesn't have to let his best friend die. They don't have to walk away from the game without the money. It just ends without anybody having to do anything they don't want to do.

1:02:05
Unknown_00: Though, to the show's credit, these final shots are great. The busy control room being reduced to one guy, the two lights left, the fact that Jihoon is smiling from his first photo still, the juxtaposition of that, the piggy bank sitting on the floor in an empty room that used to be full of people, it's all pretty great shit.

Unknown_10: Finish!

1:02:41
Unknown_10: Yoo-hoo!

Unknown_04: Congratulations on your victory.

Unknown_04: It was a great game. Why are you doing this?

Unknown_04: You like racing, don't you? That's what you said. What you said at the race.

Unknown_00: The fact that he even directly compares this to horse racing like he did before just further amplifies my point about how bullshit it is that they injure people randomly. What happened to 6-7 was still bullshit. The glass tile guessing game is still bullshit. The shapes are still bullshit. It's all still bullshit. And really, the fact that Ji-Hoon tried to back out at the last second, what he really should be saying is, haha. with one vote to quit the game. 100% of players agree to quit game. So you can go now, but bye, you get nothing. Maybe next time don't be such an indecisive bitch. Jihoon gets dumped off on the sidewalk next to a Christian preacher who's prophesizing the apocalypse. I don't know if this is a criticism of Christians or a Christian message, I don't know what they're going for here. He discovers he has a bank card on him and goes to the ATM to withdraw 10,000 won. He correctly guesses that his pin number is 456 with a leading zero and that he has the game balance of 45 billion won.

1:04:01
Unknown_00: He goes home and discovers that his mom died of her diabetes while he was away playing the games. He was not there for her and nobody discovered her body. The 10,000 won that he takes out of the bank is the only money that he ever withdraws from his game account on screen. He ends up sinking into a depression and spends the next year not doing anything and living like a homeless person under a bridge.

Unknown_00: So if you've never watched this show and you're wondering why so many people say that the ending sucks, this is a huge part of it. He doesn't do anything for a year after he gets this money. When there was a lot he could have done, a lot that he promised to do. If one of us lives here, we'll take care of the rest of the family.

1:04:35
Unknown_00: So despite making even that promise to a dying woman that he supposedly really liked, he sits under this bridge drinking for a full year while her brother is in an orphanage and his childhood friend's mom wonders where her son went while she runs a store by herself at an elderly age. He shows zero intention of doing anything else until a mysterious letter arrives inviting him to the seventh floor of a tall building.

1:05:15
Unknown_00: Is it fun?

Unknown_00: He was diagnosed with brain cancer, so he wasn't lying about his mental health.

1:05:48
Unknown_00: He explains his perspective in that watching the games could not nearly be as exciting as participating in the games. Since he was terminally ill, he had nothing to lose and might as well. His perspective is that he wanted to feel alive one more time before he died of his condition. I really wanted to feel alive again.

Unknown_11: I can never feel it when I'm sitting in the audience.

Unknown_00: In this scene, he's at the end of his life and is dying. He points out to Jihoon, a homeless person freezing to death on the street below them. The old man wagers with Jihoon that nobody will help this homeless person before midnight and he will freeze to death. While someone does call the police to help the homeless man before he freezes to death, or perhaps after he freezes to death, that's not particularly known, the old man himself dies and he never sees this act of human kindness.

1:06:26
Unknown_00: Perhaps inspired by the person helping the homeless man, Jihoon finally feels compelled to get off his ass and do something with the money he's won. He finds 67's brother at an orphanage and then has him placed in the custody of Sangwoo's mother. He also gives her half of the money that he won, but doesn't explain where the money came from and never explains what happened to Sangwoo to his mother. So even in this act of kindness, he's still a bit of a non-confrontational coward.

1:07:03
Unknown_00: He also decides to go to a hair salon. And while some not-so-subtle commentary about debt and capitalism plays on the TV, he picks out the best possible hairstyle to get.

Unknown_00: You look like a faggot in that lighting, by the way. I saw that in chat. I am a faggot in this lighting at all times. I mean, this has to be some sort of anti-capitalist statement. He's got the danger hair and everything. He's perfect. It's red for communism. Does it make it better or worse to know that the official explanation for this hair is that it represents his rage? While on the subway going to the airport so he can fly to the US and see his daughter for the first time since the game started, he encounters another player playing the slapping game with the guy that recruited him into the Squid Games to begin with. He runs across the subway to stop the person from joining the game and steals his card with the phone number that you're supposed to call. And now for the final shot of the entire show and what I consider to be the worst moment. While boarding the plane to go to the U.S. to see his daughter, he pulls out the card that he got earlier in the train station and he calls it.

1:08:15
Unknown_00: And so he decides against getting on the plane to see his own child and living a normal life and instead turns around to seek out the people who were behind the conspiracy that landed him millions of dollars. There's actually a lot to hate about the way this show ends. There's a lot to hate because it goes against everything that's been established about Jihoon and how he thinks and how he acts and what he prioritizes. They constantly re-establish that he would not hurt a fly, he wouldn't even kill Sangwoo when it would end the game and give him the money, even after Sangwoo killed 67 who he ostensibly had a love interest in. Even in the final confrontation with the old man, he still held out for the goodness in humanity and waited for the police to arrive and save the homeless man freezing to death. Yet as he gets on the plane to visit his own child, who was the main reason that he got into the Squid Games to begin with, he decides against it and turns around to instead seek out revenge. This is extremely stupid. This is contrary to his character, it's the exact opposite of a character arc, and it's contrary to what people would hope for him. If you're rooting for Jihoon, you would not want him to be consumed by anger. Not considering the fact that this is a nine episode series, let's look at some other ways that this could have ended in a way that was not so infuriating and stupid. Option A. Jihoon learns the value of life after seeing hundreds of people gunned down in cold blood and decides that maybe he can fix his problems by getting a job. Option B. Vote to leave the game with 67 and make a new family. There's even a free North Korean defector child included. Option C. Win the game, but then instead of dying your hair red, use the money to improve the lives of people around you. You will have survivor's guilt, but then you can just join a church or something. And then you can stop your daughter from getting blacked in the US.

1:10:09
Unknown_00: Option D, succumb to Netflix, rail against capitalism, abandon your family, friends, and obligations all over again just to pursue a bunch of rich, white, gay rapists for no reason, completely undo the reason the audience liked you at all, and spit in the face of the only person who ever believed in you. Well, the choice is clear. Goodbye, little girl. Daddy has a date on Epstein's Island.

1:10:54
Unknown_00: What a crock of shit.