Have been watching Maid on Netflix and it’s very good.
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PSA: Narcos Mexico S3 comes out in less than a month. 11/5
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I would love a sopranos cut without dr. Melfi. One hundred 
I know I am alone on this.
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Just finished squid game. I enjoyed it, but the ending was a bit flat. Also, I still don’t understand the rules to Squid Game. One issue re: the competition:
The game with the glass panels was disappointing, because it seemed obvious how to rig it by just standing on the outside supports of each panel so your full weight wasn’t on the panel.
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You have to follow the rules. Pretty sure if you try to circumvent the game like that, you would just be killed.
I don’t think the rules prohibited anything like that.
I thought the same but iirc they specifically said you had to jump from glass panel to glass panel
Part of the rules: “For this game you will guess which one of the next two tiles is the tile made of the stronger tempered glass and only step on those across the 18 pairs of tiles. You may then cross over to the other side safely.” While perhaps not explicit, it seems to indicate you can only step on the glass.
Just finished Alice in Boderland and thought it was solid, but thought the Beach stuff was pretty dumb. In particular I thought the last episode was terrible:
Way too may standard tropes - like the bad guy that got burned coming back for one final killing spree. I also thought the stuff about Aguni motivations made little sense and the way they solved who the witch was amazingly dumb. Especially the cop who had the bright idea that she could solve a murder by fingerprinting the knife (without any way to cross reference against others fingerprints). And then the fact that it somehow worked - which also makes no sense, no way you can tell from orientation of the fingerprints that someone stabbed themselves.
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I always assumed it was intentional. I kind of liked their over the top slimy inflection.
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My Squid Game questions
Usually our put upon protagonist has one or two seriously cliched problems. How come our hero has a rounders style crippling gambling addiction and a die hard estranged family he’s trying to reconnect with and a Joker ailing mother he can’t take care of and a Jack Black school of rock friend who he takes advantage of and who’s wife hates him? That’s 4 characters in 1.
Where are the game makers advertising to hire O people? They seem to get through quite a lot. [ ]'s get to be in charge so I can sort of understand that and there are generally a few psychos out there who are willing to be ^'s but they’re obviously not paying that much because they had to have the organ harvest side hussle and the prison cell like living conditions and constant threat of death don’t seem that great of a work environment.
What happens in the tug of war round if the total people left is a prime number? How much of a clusterfuck is the glass round if say 70 people get through to it?
Why would a police officer holding a smart phone not snap and send one or two photos of the line of 50+ unmarked vans with clear and obvious licence plates boarding a likely unregistered ship from a random tiny dock in the middle of nowhere? Why decide to climb under one of the vans knowing it must result in a near instantaneous fight to the death.
How are they bankrolling a private island, an army of hundreds, possibly thousands and all this elaborate set up (not including the prize money itself) off the back of like 5 people? Even if they are billionaires blowing every last penny I’m not sure the figures are going to add up.
Who makes the clocks that the game people use? They keep terrible time. There will be 35 seconds left in a game then a 5-7 minute emotional scene will happen between the characters and then only 15 seconds left. For all he money they’re spending I think they’d get some clocks that work properly.
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In the show the supports ran underneath the edges of the glass so you would be able to position your weight above the supports but still standing on the glass panels
There seems to be enough space that you have to at least hop to another pane which would make it difficult to land exactly on the support
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My Squid Game questions
Usually our put upon protagonist has one or two seriously cliched problems. How come our hero has a rounders style crippling gambling addiction and a die hard estranged family he’s trying to reconnect with and a Joker ailing mother he can’t take care of and a Jack Black school of rock friend who he takes advantage of and who’s wife hates him? That’s 4 characters in 1.
True. I didn’t feel like they overdid it though. If you’re fucked up enough in life it’s rare that you’re going to have just one problem.
Where are the game makers advertising to hire O people? They seem to get through quite a lot. [ ]'s get to be in charge so I can sort of understand that and there are generally a few psychos out there who are willing to be ^'s but they’re obviously not paying that much because they had to have the organ harvest side hussle and the prison cell like living conditions and constant threat of death don’t seem that great of a work environment.
I never was too clear on this. In my imagination they’re barely one rung up in society from the players. Not desperate enough to kill themselves, but desperate enough to take any job. It definitely doesn’t make too much sense if you look at it long enough. (at some point, a combination of shitty pay and terrible job along with a great payout means you’d rather be a player than a worker)
What happens in the tug of war round if the total people left is a prime number? How much of a clusterfuck is the glass round if say 70 people get through to it?
I assumed the games where selected based on the participants left and it’s easy enough to pick games where they can semi control how many players get whittled down. Musical chairs has 1 player who ‘wins’. Have 20 groups though and you have 20 winners. Change the number of groups to get the number of players you want. The marble game and tug of war get rid of half the players each. Etc.
We did see with the marble game that the odd person out got a pass to the next round, but they could have just killed them just as well. It was arbitrary.
It’s stuff like this that soured me a bit on the series. Just too many plot holes.
Are we supposed to believe that they are just taking 400+ people EVERY YEAR that never return and nobody notices? Many of these people were chosen because they are deeply in debt. What happens to that debt now? If someone owes me the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars and then “disappears”, I wouldn’t exactly say “oh, okay”.
And then the dude wins and suddenly has a massive, massive windfall deposited into a bank account? And that doesn’t raise any eyebrows with the government?
I really don’t get all the Squid Game hype. It’s like the most successful show ever, supposedly.
It’s a very stylish show with an anti-rich people message that resonates in the zeitgeist of 2021. Makes perfect sense to me.
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I liked it, but it does seems like it’s the 2,000th retelling of The Most Dangerous Game.
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I think it was a combination of the way they were delivering the lines and the lines themselves
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So they’ve got like 10 more gigantic, elaborate and fiendishly cruel versions of popular children’s games just gathering dust on the island? That gigantic hopscotch court with whirring saw blades took a long time to make dude it cost a lot too. We’ll use it next year I promise. You always say that! Blam! Sigh well time to put another ad on indeed.com general workman required, uniform provided, hard work ethic essential, free accommodation, promotion prospects.
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