Review of Squid Games

Many of the players in the Squid Game are citizens that are struggling significantly financially. Most have unimaginable debt accumulated by various means. In the series they are given an option to leave the game or stay. Most of the participants decided to stay in the game because they had no other means to pay off their debts and unfortunately felt they had no choice even at the cost of their life as many of them paid. The game was basically a deathmatch game show. The participants get a reward if they survive all the games. The prize money deceptively accumulates when people die but in actuality it is accumulated because the boss puts it in from when he wins and gains money from the vips paying to watch the games. The glass bridge episode shined light on every player's true personalities. To recap the game consists of 2 bridges side by side from each other suspended high up. One side has a weak glass and the other has a strong glass that can support a person. However a majority of the players don't know which side is the safe side for the entire game. There were no teams and the person in the front of the line was typically threatened to go otherwise they would run out of time. Guihun was the last player in the line and Sungwu was about 2 people in front of him. On the last tile the player could not make a decision on what side to pick. Sungwu decided to kick him onto a side, killing him in the process because he went on the wrong side. After the game Guihun confronted Sungwu saying why did he kill the man. Sungwu replies he needed to move otherwise they all would have died and that he does not understand his conditions because he was in the back. Guihun asks if he would have pushed himself off the bridge in the place of the man he killed. Sungwu gets frustrated and angry and tells him Guihun that he is an inferior person because he can’t stop getting into trouble. By this point Guihun knows that Sungwu is careless for his life and he can not trust him during the next game. After the game and the trauma Guihun endured he could not find it within himself to morally use the money. Guihun was sad that he lost all of his friends. He realized that no prize could replace the friendships that he accumulated in the games. He eventually got himself back together and dyed his hair red symbolizing the inner rage he held for the games. At the end of the season Guihun decides to return to the games out of spite for the last boss. I’m really looking forward to the next season of Squid Games. This series had so many layers to the story. It balanced 3 plots very well. It balanced the plot with the players, guards and the Cop who broke in to find his brother. This was a well built story and weird blend of 2 drastically different media’s game shows and thrillers. Overall this was a well made story and I’m looking forward to the next season. Most of all I’m really curious about the guards. I really want to know how they find people to enlist in the game. In the series they found a kid to be the guard. Most of the guards soldiers make a point to say that firearms are illegal to citizens so how would they get the people with experience with firearms. I also wonder how the first games were established and how they found the first batch of people along with how they got an island for the game.