Hunger Games knock-off to an extent, but made way too close to reality for the folks in South Korea from what I’m hearing. Think “War of the Worlds”, except done as a series, and with plausible incident sites and players readily visible everywhere you look, as though there was a vast coverup going on…
First thoughts were the same, Hunger Games sort of. Then thinking a bit deeper, what’s the motivation?
Killing a bunch of people that collectively owe huge sums - doesn’t that effectively put the squeeze on those that hold the debt? In sort of F-Society kind of way.
I’ve only seen the first two episodes, so maybe it isn’t a Hunger Games meets Mr. Robot. I also had to smile a little bit at the closing pull away shot in Episode 1 with the “jungle” pit doors closing as it reveals a super-villain island volcano lair.
@RiotDemon now I have to avoid the thread I helped create, lol. Near the end but haven’t gotten quite to it. I think the word ‘love’ is overused but wow…it’s been a great watch!
Never saw Hunger Games and not interested in squid games then grandson foot hubby interested. Not my cup of tea at all, but I ended up getting sucked in! Have 2 more episodes to go! Please no spoilers!!!
We finished watching it last week - had to take a couple day break after episode 6, which was pretty heart-wrenching …
I started watching reluctantly, but was soon pulled in by its character exposition - Although constructively similar to hunger games, its motivation for the games and the POV and presentation of the players is much different, much more realistic, and surprisingly upfront on the emotional and psychic toll involved.
As a side comment, I couldn’t get Netflix to configure the languages and subtitles like we wanted (wanted original Korean with subs) so wound up with English dub and subtitles, which, altho true to presenting the concepts of the dialog, were very very different at times, with the subtitles being much more explicit:
Dub: You very bad person, you! I will hurt you!
Subtitle: You fucking shithead! I will rip your lungs out and have them for dinner!
@stolicat this is why I don’t watch dubs. Been burned in the past of how they change the audio.
Netflix changed something to automatically queue up the dub version of this. The audio options button let’s you choose the language. Did it not show up?
I just started this weekend and I’m about half way thru. Coincidentally, SNL did a video spoof of it this Saturday, and I had seen enough I understood most of the references.
I bet people here would play for IRKs.
Hunger Games knock-off to an extent, but made way too close to reality for the folks in South Korea from what I’m hearing. Think “War of the Worlds”, except done as a series, and with plausible incident sites and players readily visible everywhere you look, as though there was a vast coverup going on…
Horror done as a “reality” show…
@werehatrack I dunno about it being a Hunger Games knockoff. I do not think the participants knew what they were getting into initially.
@njfan @werehatrack Battle Royale maybe?
First thoughts were the same, Hunger Games sort of. Then thinking a bit deeper, what’s the motivation?
Killing a bunch of people that collectively owe huge sums - doesn’t that effectively put the squeeze on those that hold the debt? In sort of F-Society kind of way.
I’ve only seen the first two episodes, so maybe it isn’t a Hunger Games meets Mr. Robot. I also had to smile a little bit at the closing pull away shot in Episode 1 with the “jungle” pit doors closing as it reveals a super-villain island volcano lair.
Just finished it tonight.
I loved it.
Then…
The end.
@RiotDemon That!!! I was rooting for that dude to get killed in every episode and just grrrr to the end!
@RiotDemon now I have to avoid the thread I helped create, lol. Near the end but haven’t gotten quite to it. I think the word ‘love’ is overused but wow…it’s been a great watch!
@RiotDemon - take them all. I finished and your assessment was spot on.
Never saw Hunger Games and not interested in squid games then grandson foot hubby interested. Not my cup of tea at all, but I ended up getting sucked in! Have 2 more episodes to go! Please no spoilers!!!
@lc1976
Is this the dubbed version of the actual comment that you made in Korean?
We finished watching it last week - had to take a couple day break after episode 6, which was pretty heart-wrenching …
I started watching reluctantly, but was soon pulled in by its character exposition - Although constructively similar to hunger games, its motivation for the games and the POV and presentation of the players is much different, much more realistic, and surprisingly upfront on the emotional and psychic toll involved.
As a side comment, I couldn’t get Netflix to configure the languages and subtitles like we wanted (wanted original Korean with subs) so wound up with English dub and subtitles, which, altho true to presenting the concepts of the dialog, were very very different at times, with the subtitles being much more explicit:
Dub: You very bad person, you! I will hurt you!
Subtitle: You fucking shithead! I will rip your lungs out and have them for dinner!
@stolicat this is why I don’t watch dubs. Been burned in the past of how they change the audio.
Netflix changed something to automatically queue up the dub version of this. The audio options button let’s you choose the language. Did it not show up?
@RiotDemon button and choices were there, but whatever I would set it to, it wouldn’t change. At least it was amusing at times.
@RiotDemon @stolicat
The kerfuffle is over the difference between the subtitles and the closed-captioning.
We haven’t had a problem switching between the dub and the subtitles to get what we can only assume is the intended meaning.
And yeah, the subtitles are more expressive than the dubbed audio.
Trailer looks great. Want to watch.
I just started this weekend and I’m about half way thru. Coincidentally, SNL did a video spoof of it this Saturday, and I had seen enough I understood most of the references.
Episode 6 is … intense. It is a shame that nobody will remember TSG when the Emmys roll around next year.
Amazing acting performances. The actors held nothing back and left it all out there on the screen.