What happened to the Squid Games?
There are a lot of great games. Here are just a few off the top fo my dome:
Price Is Right / Codenames / Olympics / Jeopardy / Blackjack.
What a great list of games. I could go on. But I won’t because that’s a different stack. Does that stack exist? It should. Someone make that stack!
I want to talk to you about a game that was good and then it wasn’t. Season 1 of Squid Games was a banger. Really. That was a comet. Then seasons 2/3 came out and wow….no bueno. Squid Games has some good credit music and opening music I’ll give it that. But other than that, it’s going to end up in this tv category.
SHOWS THAT HAD A GOOD SEASON ONE AND THEN WASN’T GOOD. Here are just a few shows that also fall into that category (honestly, this could be a huge category but I just want to give you a taste):
Heroes
True Detective
Mr. Robot
Westworld (You can argue it was all bad)
Dexter
Prison Break (I did like S1 of this show)
Stranger Things (Yeah I said it)
I’m going to talk about Season 3 of SG now. I won’t talk about it all….just a few insane things. If you are going to watch it….just stop reading. IF you actually read this thing. I’m not sure who does. But thank you if you do.
Okay….last warning. Here we go. I assume you stopped reading and went over to Shea Serranos substack “Good Movie” which is pretty good. Can’t blame you.
Here are some light spoilers and some thoughts:
What is increibly insane in this show is that the guy who won the games at the end of Season 1 wants to take down Squid Games so he REJOINS the Squid Games in Season 2! On his own. He knows what they do at these games and he still RE-SIGNS UP! Yes this happens in Season 2 but really S2/3 are just one big season and I’m just calling it Season 3 but with that last sentences rationale it’s really Season 2. I’m confuing you. Sorry.
Guess what happens after he’s won a Squid Games and he rejoins……he’s still awesome at these games. This guy is the Jordan of Squid Games. He can’t be beat. If they kept stats in SG like the NBA he’d average 32/14/7. Just an absolute monster at these games.
The island the games happen is also confusing. Nobody knows where this thing is. It’s always covered in fog. The Coast Guard shows up at the end of the show but where the hell have they been? They haven’t heard anything about this island? Really this show tells you the Coast Guard is bad at their jobs.
Okay, I can’t believe I waited this long to talk about this. One of the contestants in the games is pregnant. She’s a tiny lady who they make look like she’s 6 months preggers but they claim she’s ready to give birth. Also, her baby daddy is in the games and they don’t get along. The entire time I’m pretty confident that they aren’t going to kill her. And I’m 1000% confident that the baby isn’t going to be in the games. Guess what? I WAS WRONG. She gives birth in a deadly game of hide and seek. In a room. With 2 other of the players. Really. She gave birth at the games. She hurts her ankle in this episode but survives. Hang in there cause in the next episdoe she’s going to die. In a deadly jump rope game. But guessssss what: The baby lives and the main people decide that the baby is NOW IN THE GAME! The day old baby. Now, before the mother dies she goes to the Jordan of SG (smartly) and says “Hey Jordan, you gotta protect the baby.” She wants him to do it and not the dad. Mainly cause the dad is a dead beat (already) and she doesn’t trust him. Jordan agrees to this. This is how good he is at this game. He is going to strap a day old baby to his chest and win this fucker.
Wouldn’t you know it, Jordan has made the final 9 with the baby strapped to his body. Baby is 2-3 days old now. Also, the baby daddy is in the final 9. Somehow 6 morons get killed in true stupidity. The final 3: Jordan/Baby Daddy/Baby. I know. What a games this is. Ratings are probably through the roof for this dream finals matchup.
I should note that the baby daddy also claims he was protecting the child in the final 9. Which he was. But now that it’s the final 3….he wants to kill the baby and win the games vs Jordan. He doesn’t beat Jordan. NOBODY DOES. He dies. So the final 2 contestants are Jordan vs Baby. This button was never pushed so now they gotta push the button and someone has to get thrown off and die. Jordan or baby? Jordan is selfless and kills himself so the baby can live.
THE BABY WON SQUID GAMES! Let that sink in. This baby was like 3000000000/1 to win the games but a 3 day old did it.
They blow up the island (I guess) in the end. Not the good guys. The Squid people. Can’t leave no tracks. And there’s still 15 minutes left in the show. What are they going to do with the time.
Here’s what they do. The main bad guy does nice things for Jordan and a detective (his brother?). It ends with Cate Blanchett (in LA) playing the SG in an alley with some dumbo. Cate Blanchett. Oscar winning actress Cate Blanchett. Is in the Squid Games.
Now the games are hapenning in an American spinoff for Netflix?
There was other things that went down that I’m not even touching on.
Just know that a…….
BABY
WON
SQUID
GAMES
