He sits back with a scotch, an eerie jazz band diorama playing “Fly Me To The Moon," as he watches the arena in real-time on a huge flatscreen. We are introduced to the Darth Vader-like, king spooky person, the Front Man ( Lee Byung-Hun), the only character who speaks in English, giving a command over the phone to let the ( Hunger) games begin. Fast forward to their wallets being taken and all of them, somehow, re-dressed in forest green tracksuits with white numbers that mark their player number (the order they arrive). Everyone in the car seems to be sleeping, but they’ve been gassed, which happens to Seong after he gets in. He gets out the Salesman’s card and soon after is picked up in an inconspicuous van. He lays in bed, tenderly looking over photos of his daughter. Maybe if he shows he can financially support Ga-Yeong, she can stay with him in South Korea. The turning point in the episode comes when his mother next tells him that Ga-Yeong, her mother, and her stepdad are moving to the U.S. “I worked my hands, face, and body off to earn this money,” the truth, and a red herring for the real game up ahead. He asks the vendor about her son, Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo), a successful friend who is currently on a "business trip abroad." (Keep that in mind in for later!) Later, at home, his mother doesn’t believe Seong got his new batch of money without stealing or gambling. Seong is feeling great and stops by the fish market. “Give me a call,” the man says at the end, to Seong’s drunk-in-money eyes and bruising cheek, if Seong wants to make more money playing more “games.” It’s a straightforward game, ddakji -make a piece of paper hit another so it flips over and you get cash-but until Seong wins, he gets slapped mercilessly. Theirs is a blue-pill-or-red pill interaction. The Salesman ( Gong Yoo) finds Seong on the subway platform after he drops off Ga-Yeong. He is falling apart, but his love for his daughter is the clearest part of his life. When Ga-Yeong turns to wave bye, hastened away by her mother, Seong encourages them to get inside. He brings her home, lovingly, asleep on his back, and is chastised by his ex-wife ( Kang Mal Geum) for being late. When she opens the arcade gift, it is a lighter shaped like a pistol, forewarning the story's medley of humor and violence. After getting money from the bank, he tries to win his daughter an arcade toy and, failing, a sweet boy helps him win a gift-wrapped box.Īt dinner, Ga-Yeong is sensitive to her father, knowing he gets into fights, is still smoking, and feels guilty he can’t give her more. “Softee" ( Pub-lae Kim) will take one of his kidneys and eyes if Seong doesn’t pay him back next month. Seong is forced to sign a “Disclaimer of Physical Rights.” This means Mr.
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The series opens with a flashback to eight kids, focusing on one boy who is perhaps a young Seong Gi-hun, the series' soon-to-be-revealed protagonist, playing the eponymous "squid game." It resembles a mash-up of rugby and capture the flag essentially, you have to get from one side to the other, staying in specific perimeters, and along the way, you fight your opponents. In the background, people are freshly murdered, laying about like scattered, piled trash. For feeler’s sake, check out its promo image on the Netflix homepage: a huge, Bride of Chucky-like doll with blood on her freckled cheek and definitely something wrong with her eyes. (Side note: Shouldn’t the series be categorized as Drama/Horror?) The South Korean, Korean-language production, written and directed by Hwang Song-Hyuk, already claimed the #1 most-watched spot on Netflix and may become the most-watched series ever on the streaming platform. With a TV-MA warning for language, violence, sex, nudity, suicide, and smoking and its outstanding effect on audiences worldwide, I knew that Squid Gamewould serve sick, tightly constructed, provocative drama.