Hey all hope you liked the video. A while ago I made a video about movies and tv shows I would never make videos about. And I said that I wouldnt do foreign ones because, mainly, I didnt think they would work with my video format. So with this video Im trying something different from my usual style. If it goes over well then maybe Ill do more like this, or at least change up the video style sometimes or something Anyway let me know what you think

“I’m so rich and bored?” Poor people: wanna donate? “Nah”

"Old people suck at using money" Nah, rich people suck at using money

The same kind of ending with a dead family member also happens in the movie Would You Rather. Main character survives bunch of deadly games only to find out after the person they were planning to save with the monetary winnings died tragically.

I'll be honest, the old man being the ring leader of Squid Games was a total mindfuck for me. Even more so than the police officer's brother being the guy running the show. Hands down, this was one of the oddest and most unique shows I've seen in a while, and it had opened me up to other interesting Korean shows. Many of the foreign Netflix shows have been fantastic. The VIPs were awful 🤢

“The old man spends his money to watch people kill each other, it’s so stupid”. *Me paying to watch a show of people killing each other:* 👁 👄 👁

My favorite thing about The VIP acting is Americans wondering if this is how the world sees them, when Hollywood has been good at stereotypes of foreigners for years

This video made me realize watching this show in korean was making it 10 time better holy fuck

I think everyone is missing the point of why Gi-hun was such a good character. He stayed a good person at heart until the end and helped the people weaker than him. He also didn’t kill San-woo in the finals, even if it meant he didn’t win the game, he wanted to stop it there in order to save him.

I actually really disliked the VIPs at first too because of their acting. Then I read a post from one of the actors that they all acted that way on purpose, that it was part of the script. Then I realized that rich people in the real world aren't mustache twirling masterminds that are intelligent and sophisticated. Most rich people that didn't earn their wealth are just childish dicks who think too highly of themselves. So I dislike the VIPs less now because they are a more accurate and authentic portrayal of people like that. I still find it super cringe, but it's also supposed to be. They are supposed to make you feel uncomfortable.

The show contains so many fun tidbits, like him saying "I promise I wont attack you on my mothers life" but then breaks the promise, then his mom dies

I enjoyed it more for the horror of it. idk if it was set design or cinematography or the acting or whatever, but some of the games scared me shitless. The bridge one was so intense. Seeing these people slowly confront that their lives are about to end (and that they chose to be in that situation) was wild. Like with the big gangster dude refusing to take another step on to the next glass pane.

Lol my mother originally thought that squid game was a real game show, so when she wanted to turn it on around my nine year old brother because it seemed like a “fun show to watch” both my father and i had to step in and told her that people died in it and that it wasnt appropriate for him. Now we didnt know that she thought it was real, so the look of shock on her face when she heard that is still engraved in my mind.

all I gotta say is... ali deserved better

If you watched it in Korean the scene where his mom is dead, the emotions were just conveyed better. The whole show was better in Korean.

I think you misunderstood the part about him winning and coming home to a dead mother- it did have meaning, and i assumed it was pretty surface level. The pursuit of money, most contestants were given a chance to leave the game and remain living life thru their struggles and hardship as they once were (i say most given the results of the first game) but a large confusing amount of them returned to the game given the risks and what they were leaving at home (ie; sick mom, lady who’d given birth to an unnamed child, etc). This was a choice to choose either the pursuit of money over lasting memory and “quality time” with family. “The Pursuit of money is the root of evil” is a constant theme in this show. While many efforts are to showcase how desperate these people are i believe their experience in the games brought out the worse in them and/or ended in their demise, while on the outside they were just human beings going thru a human experience. quick riches dont change the reality of your situation. Im sure the protagonist wouldve given his life to have back that time with his mother.

You know what is being slept on? Alice in borderland

For a second I thought Alex was crappily voicing over and then I realized… that’s just the dub

The stupidest thing for me personally was how Sae Byeok was fatally injured by a piece of GLASS THAT WASN'T EVEN PART OF THE GAME

i know about the memes... but you still do kinda have to admit: even though Ali is probably everyone's favorite character and he didn't deserve to die, he was hopelessly naive and we all would have done what seung woo did, he is by far the most relatable

The ending of 456 choosing to play Squid Game than seeing his daughter was already foreshadowed by the very fact that he wasn't there during her birth because he had to help his co-workers during a strike. So it makes sense why he'd keep that character trait. He would sacrifice his own pleasures to help others, but the games tested his selfishness especially during the marble scene with the old man. The marble scene paralleled the hospital scene with the old man too.

I feel like only watching the dub removes like 90% of the emotional impact

Him leaving his daughter was the funniest thing ever because you're life motivation was to be good enough for your daughter.

squid is genuinely a good show, but the way people hyped it up and talked about it ALL THE TIME was what removed the magic from it. imo it happened with stranger things too.

It's been a while but rewatching these videos is always fun. It't not about the complete originality of the comments, it's that your style is just so fun and enjoyable to watch!

Squid Game: *the most popular show ever* Alex: *still roasts the shit out of it* Edit: My replies look like they could spark WW3...

All jokes aside, Squid Game is one of those shows you can't resist watching from the sheer hype alone, and you actually end up liking it because it's genuinely good.

4:36 Yeah, that's another thing that's sad, not only is she gone, he never even got to say goodbye. Like that's another way the Squid Game screwed him over (well, he screwed himself, the whole reason he was desperate to begin with is because he was so financially irresponsible), if he never joined the game, he would have been with her in those last few days . . .

Ali is literally a true LEGEND.

The only characters that truly deserved the money were Ali and Sae-byeok

Idk if someone already said this but there’s a difference with Overhyped and Overrated. I can definitely say that Squid Game was Overhyped but not Overrated. It’s a really good show, not perfect but pretty good. The reason why everyone got tired of it and annoyed was how every piece of media had SQUID GAME all over it. (Google overhyped vs overrated to understand more if still confused)

Ali is the definition of 'Nice Guys Finish Last.'

love how the most played part is right after the sponsership

Honestly, if you let your kids watch squid game and now they are “traumatized”, that is on the parents, not on Netflix or the show

Here is what i suspect - him seeing his mom dead was supposed to be an original ending. This show was clearly originally written as a one season thing, considering how all of the characters, except for the main one, ended up. Plus, the pacing of the last episode is really weird. I think that originally he was supposed to meet the Old Man before going home, maybe in the car instead of the Front Man, then go home and see his mom. Or maybe he would never find out, but we, the audience would? However, somewhere along the way, after reading the script, Netflix people realized the potential of the Squid Game and asked the director to change it to an open ending in order to do more seasons.

Finally, happy I wasn't alone thinking the ending was shit and that they should have just stopped at his mom's death scene haha

I just found your channel I'm going to binge watch all these videos I love the animation

“Squid game is kind of dumb” Squid game fans: So you have chosen… Death.

The point of that scene was not to show that the old man was correct, it was to show he was wrong. That is implied by the homless man actually getting help. The old man is too far gone in his beliefs to see the actual truth. He only sees the dark side in people as opposed to the main character. I don't think we are meant to accept what the old man is saying , it just gives us an explanation into how he sees the world and why he would conjure up these games.

Alex: "can't wait to read comments telling me I'm wrong" Comments:"dang the dub really hinders the movie. Makes me appreciate watching it subbed. "

I am so glad someone feels the same well like people will not shut up about it

The VIPs are meant to be cringey, reflecting on not just the ultra rich like other people have been saying but a reflection of how foreigners are depicted in us media. Especially Asian characters in American media have always been caricatures of stereotypes with over exaggerated accents. It was the same thing with the Vips in squid game

"The real moral of Squid Game is : *OLD PEOPLE SUCK AT USING MONEY* !" -Alex Meyers, 2021

7:18 cracked me up

I agree with absolutely everything you said, especially your discussion regarding the the ending of the show. Although I will say that watching the show with subtitles definitely made the VIP scenes more acceptable to me. It kinda felt like they were supposed to be cringey and annoying. The contrast between the coherent, fluid Korean kinda made the English the Americans spoke more jarring and creepy, which was quite impactful imo.

People: "The VIPs are awful, annoying and cringey." Me: "I dunno, seems accurate to me."

I wanna say...THAT OLD MAN DID NOT DESERVE MY TEARS edit : I have 4.7k likes?????

It made me so mad he didn’t even go to his daughter and be with her after everything happened

10:08 Aka the ankle destroyer 😂

oh my gosh! The dubbed version makes the characters sound SO ridiculous, that’s hilarious!

"Being rich is boring." Ah, yes, nothing is more exciting than not being able to afford groceries. Why do you think college kids are always having so much fun?

I’m having a binge Alex videos I haven’t seen, and there have been two squeaky ball sounds that have made my dog very excited

I just discovered this channel and its so good I love it!

Watching it dubbed is such an american thing

Alex posting this was riskier than any of the games in the show

The whole wardrobe budget was spent on body paint for the vip girls. Also I laughed sooo hard at the whole double dare and legends of the hidden temple games for HSM dvds

The reason I don't like Squid Game is because it's lowkey a rip off off of every not-so-popular manga that I've read but it's a Korean show that somehow got popular.

"Squid Game is kinda dumb" Well... yeah... you watched the dub.

Alex Meyers: "Squid Game is Stupid" Rest of the World: He must have seen the english dubb. Watch the video. I was right.

I feel like Squid Game will end up being like Fidget Spinners, with everyone making memes about it, becoming really popular, etc. And then in a few years, we'll all look back and be like "Eh, who watched this dumb stuff?" 🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑🦑

I hate how even though he clearly said that this was just his opinion and he fairly liked the show, there are still people commenting about how wrong he is and how he "just doesn't understand it."

*"Old people suck at using money."* I mean, isn't that a fact of life?

"Old people have too much money" So yea, gimme some of that.

Bro...your videos bring me so much joy!

Personally I liked squid game. Unfortunately it is kind of unrewatchable but I liked how over the course of the show, Gi Hun didn’t really get better in the grand scheme of things. He was still utterly selfish with a martyr complex. I liked that it didn’t really show much character development and made him seem more like a real person with a lot of flaws that couldn’t be fixed like la ti da. And I liked the ending twist too that it showed that you can be optimistic or pessimistic and nothing will change. Whether you hope or condemn, everything is up to chance.

The fact that you used the dubbed version is the greatest sin

Tbh they just announced that Squid Game is getting a season two so like the fact that a lot of our questions were left unanswered and the sorta ambiguous ending make a lot more sense now. Also, I’ll recommend watching Squid Game with the original Korean Audio with subtitles. A lot of the emotional messages and meanings get lost in the translation of the English Dub, in my opinion.

My parents and I watched the show and just enjoyed it. We didn’t focus on the message or the dumb ending.

I completely agree with this video in the sense that you watched it in English but give it another watch in Korean it just has a different feel if you do also as someone who watches Korean dramas this type of plot is accurate so i had no problem with it because im used to it but its nice to hear an opinion from someone who isnt apart of the kdrama community 😊

Alex: Squid Game is kinda dumb *Watches it in English* Oh now I get it

I think it's interesting how everyone is bothered by the VIPs scenes, and don't get me wrong, the acting is terrible and the characters and dialogues are veeeeery 2 dimensional. But for once people see what that's like when it's done to white, rich characters while having the entire Asian cast being so deeply developed. It changes the way we see representation and helps us understand better what it feels like to only have these cardboard characters as references.

I'm 15 and I watched the show and I loved it. Favorite character was number 67(forgot her name). But I do wish she had more lines.

I liked the character explorations, the high stakes, and the pretty colors. Squid Games was a fun watch for me!

I actually think the VIPs are MEANT to be cringey and bad. Because it shows just how out of touch they are with everyday people, that they can do the games and feel no remorse for their actions in any shape or form.

For once Americans understand the frustration about false representation in a movie.. loved it… and at least they spoke proper English. When they cast a „German“ guy which can’t even speak German or uses terms which do not exist.. so frustrating 😂

I think the part where the old guy says that being rich is just boring has a deeper meaning to it. It shows how after a point of becoming uber rich, some rich people just don't find happiness in anything and go out of the way to play games with lives of innocent people. A concept like Uber rich people forming cults because they are bored. The message is anything in extremes could be detrimental. Poor people are risking their lives in games to earn money while rich people are the ones that enjoy watching these games. One's misery is one's happiness and fun. They tried to portray the social gap and the irony of economic inequality (Even though I felt that it was not portrayed perfectly like in parasite)

I feel you on the ending, the actual ending should had been at the beginning of season 2 but Netflix always gotta leave on a cliffhanger

I kinda enjoyed the ending because it showed how Gi-hoon isn't the "perfect" main character. From the beginning he had a gambling problem, stole money from his own mother, let his daughter down multiple times.

Homie will do everything under the sun but refuses to take care of his daughter 😭

hahahaha right at the start.. You feel the same way about Squid game as I do about Parasite. Fine movie on it's own, but the "it's some deep think piece on this and that" nonsense LOL

the music theme will haunt me forever

i don’t think squid game was either under or over rated. i think it was just rightfully and fairly rated. personally, i thought it was a great show🤷🏻‍♀️

I see some people talk about "how he forgot his daughter at the end" as if being the solo survivor of a battleroyale where you've caused multiple people to die horribly, seen a man hang himself after causing his own wife's death and seen your friend stab himself in the neck and bleed to death in your arms wouldn't at least slightly change your "goals in life"

Do you know why the VIP scene is cringey? It uses the original Audio. Its what a Korean Director and Scriptwriter made their dialogue be. It's the same cringe I hear as a Native Spanish Speaker when in American movies/tv shows they give dialogue to a Spanish speaking character. It doesnt sounds natural most of times.

What angers me with squid game is that there's so many excellent korean drama but it's THIS ONE that got the hype 💀

The vip part gives a diferent perspective when you watch the show in the original language. To me it was like a parody of Americans

There is an interesting interview with the western actor who plays the nekkid VIP. He explained a lot about why it comes across so cringey. They have very little control over the script and it is being written by non native English speakers. They only see the script parts with their lines so they have zero context. If the lines seem a bit unnatural to them they might say them differently in other takes but the people editing won't know what sounds more natural in English and so won't use those takes necessarily. Just how an English speaker editing someone speaking in Korean won't know the natural intonations and cadences etc. We are seeing westerners through they eyes of South Koreans in this case and so it is like a characature of a rich westerner but that is the same thing that happens to foreign actors in Hollywood too.

Dude you're hilarious so hilarious I can't stop laughing at all your videos

As I did with Battle Royale, I watched Squid Game first in the original language and subtitles, then dubbed into English. I much prefer the subtitled versions.

I just think you probably shouldn't take the word of a dying, old, billionaire on why he's actually doing the games.

Alex: only friendship warnings! Me: *genuinely feels joy at idea of being his friend*

You know a show is bad when they ruin a Christmas classic for their theme song….

Alex, I don’t think I told you how much I adore the fact that you’re my age group (80s baby) and you sit here and bring up our childhood nostalgia all the fcking time. I adore you sir, thank you! 🥹🥹😂😂

As much I enjoy Squid Game, it has it’s flaws and not the greatest show in the world since Korean Media has many good dramas and movies to offer.

Unpopular Opinion: him leaving his daughter makes sense. He made a bunch of promises to her as he normally does, and as usual none of them ever work out. She goes to the US, hears nothing from him for a year. When he finally does make contact he says he’s going to come see her. But then he decides against it after finding out the game is still running. It makes perfect sense that he would do this given his character throughout the show. He knows he’s already disappointed her hundreds of times, what’s one more if the lives of 456+ other people are in the balance? He’s not being selfish at all, if anything he’s being incredibly selfless. He’s denying himself the freedom, life of security and relationship with his daughter that he’s been craving for years, and (potentially) throws all of it away to ensure what happened to his friends (and him) never happen again.

11:22 FML I was taking a big sip off coffee and I stg you almost killed me. Subbed.

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I literally shed like 3 tears when the old man “died” the first time and when he came back at the end I was like “na I ain’t crying for him again that was FUCKED”

Squid Game fans when they saw the title:”So you have chosen to walk the glass bridge” Alex Myers:”I actually like Squid Game there’s just decisions I don’t like in that show” Squid Game fans:”About what I said earlier😅”

The whole twist plot by the end of the old man "being the evil behind the game" was stupid. It was just "dramatic" for the sake of it.