Squid Game

Netflix | Release Date: September 17, 2021

7.1	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 320 Ratings

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hickster22Oct 8, 2021

This series just doesn't live up to the hype. I really wanted to like Squid Game. As someone who is a big fan of solid Korean cinema (Parasite, Mother, Old Boy, Memories of Murder), I was intrigued by a TV series that had generated so muchThis series just doesn't live up to the hype. I really wanted to like Squid Game. As someone who is a big fan of solid Korean cinema (Parasite, Mother, Old Boy, Memories of Murder), I was intrigued by a TV series that had generated so much buzz and promised to be violent and dark. Unfortunately, I was left disappointed.

First, I was disappointed because the plot was nothing new. We've seen the same basic premise in dozens of other movies and TV shows that have come before it. Second, with the exceptions of Lee Jung-Jae and Park Hae-Soo. But even their decent performances couldn't save a show in which the majority of the acting is something that belongs either in a daytime soap opera, the characters are one-dimensional caricatures, and the dialogue is overwhelmingly cliche. In fact, the acting is so over the top and melodramatic that I repeatedly found myself laughing at moments that were meant to be tragic, depressing, or shocking. The trophy for bad-acting, however, should go to the foreigners who were hired as English-speaking actors to play the roles of VIP clients. I've seen better acting in elementary school plays, and that is not hyperbole.

That being said, if you're into cheap plot twists, and you know that you enjoy other Korean dramas that ooze melodrama and hackneyed tropes, then this might be up your alley. If you're someone who takes TV and film seriously, though, then you should skip it.… Expand

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MultiTaskNAsasNOct 23, 2021

This series on Netflix is filed with needless violence and death. For what? There is nothing to enjoy while watching. It is stressful and unnecessary. I thought this types of “entertainment” fizzled out back in the 2000s with Saw, Hostel, andThis series on Netflix is filed with needless violence and death. For what? There is nothing to enjoy while watching. It is stressful and unnecessary. I thought this types of “entertainment” fizzled out back in the 2000s with Saw, Hostel, and Hunger Games, but it looks like it is coming back. At least Hunger Games wasn’t as bad as Squid Game. Why this series caught on I will never understand.… Expand

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RosEliosOct 24, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. As the classic said - This series is STUPID **** STUPID ****.
I didn’t burn with Russian vyser as much as with the stupidity of this mishandled series.
The characters in this series are simply amazing with their stupidity, their actions and phrases are often illogical.
the branch with the policeman is just **** a whole branch of one of the main characters just evaporated (Bondarchuk's gun?).
the result of all his actions is my leading brother.
and ... what and why and why? what's next? what about your call to the cops and the sent photo video? nothing.
on the basis of the film, we are given names several times. who say absolutely nothing to the audience. although this moment is exposed as if the viewer should experience a shock. and one of the series ends just at the fact that we were called SOME UNKNOWN NAME. and the next episode starts by putting the dick on it. **** this move!
The protagonist is a dumb, disgusting, hysterical, spineless idiot.
which in the end gives out such crap that you feel ashamed.
1 - A WHOLE YEAR, for a whole year he simply does nothing. took 10,000 won and that's it. What about creditors and debts? but nothing he just walks and drinks, continuing to borrow money ... mmm ...
2 - meeting an old man cannot listen and understand what he says to him, continues to be hysterical and angry.
3 - he seems to appreciate and feel sorry for his friends, but he also scored a year for their requests. Well, the type of FSUs I'm sad because of you, but I will not do at least something for you. even vloooom and generally I'm depressed.
4 - friends, it's time to do what I promised you! and our hero just shoots two birds with one stone with a genius move ... took the child, how? just? the documents? legal procedure?
so after that he also shags it off to the old woman, it's okay, you just take the child from the orphanage and just shake it off to the old woman. look after him ... two decades.
5 - having soaped up to fly away, he meets a man that he invited to the game and in a rage runs after him, WHAT IS A **** ?! for what? ask something? you ****ing talked to the FOUNDER AND HE TOLD YOU WHAT FOR WHY but you're too stupid to listen. to kick it off? um ... first of all, that dude that you defended had the only chance, you yourself voluntarily returned to the game. FOR GOOD WILL. knowing what is happening there and what you are going for. could just give this dude some money or tell him what's there. but there is no GG in the old fashioned way, just hysterical and that's it ...
6 - here they show us again that he is on the plane and has almost flew to the usa and happy end, enjoy life next to your daughter and make sure that all this is not in vain.
BUT NO, this is a weakling solution.
let me call back these **** from the game (for a second it looks like one of the most influential people in at least that area) and say TOBY PUSSA FLOW WITH THE CITY!
YOUR MOTHER LIKE YOU STUPID!

Usually I stay away from what is unheated, for me this is a sign that this is SELECT **** and it is better to stay away. but once, guided by this method, I missed a series that became my favorite, breaking bad. and so I thought, okay, let's see, mb ... people were not mistaken.
God, how wrong I was ...
decided to see what kind of score on the metacritic, mb do people also feel cheated? no 7.6 on metcriticism ...
And then I remember J. Karlin - PEOPLE PZDTS WHAT STUPID… Expand

4 of 11 users found this helpful47

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panicqJan 3, 2022

Squid Game is an overrated series. The series is based only on the brutal games presented and the situations submitted to the characters. Character development is poorly worked, actuations, personalities and dialogues are artificial andSquid Game is an overrated series. The series is based only on the brutal games presented and the situations submitted to the characters. Character development is poorly worked, actuations, personalities and dialogues are artificial and silly, the story is very simple, the conflict has easy solutions, some actions end up repeating so much that we can predict future events and the outcome is unnecessary. While these flaws exist, I admit that there are positive points, albeit few. We can cite, for example, photography, which combines the intention of brutal childrens games, and the soundtrack.… Expand

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Dandy-Mr-DDec 19, 2021

If North Korea gives a show two thumbs up, (https://www.indiewire.com/2021/10/squid-game-north-korea-salutes-critique-south-korea-1234671661/#!)

then one should be morally obligated to give it two thumbs down.

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ChalkbroodJan 25, 2022

an unoriginal idea stretched so thin they can't justify it by the final few episodes.
none of the socioeconomic ideas that are touched on in this are fleshed out, and character motivations are usually skin deep.
Just terrible shallow writingan unoriginal idea stretched so thin they can't justify it by the final few episodes.
none of the socioeconomic ideas that are touched on in this are fleshed out, and character motivations are usually skin deep.
Just terrible shallow writing and none of the visuals are anything special.
I think this show may have been written to sell jumpsuits… Expand

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HihihahahohoOct 18, 2021

Very predictable. It's like Brazilian "3%" and Spain "Mind Heist" in one project. Super overrated

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bardelbySep 7, 2023

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