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I like the premise of it but it seemed all action and no story (depth) to me so it put me off.
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“Squid Game,” the hyper-buzzy Korean drama that has become Netflix’s biggest-ever TV show, is on track to deliver an astounding payback for the streaming service, according to the company’s internal estimates.
Netflix paid $21.4 million for the nine-episode series, which premiered four weeks ago, and the company estimates “Squid Game” will deliver more than 40 times that — an estimated $891 million — in what it calls “impact value,” Bloomberg reported Saturday evening, citing confidential internal data that someone provided to the outlet.
Not a lot of action in the first two episodes (one set piece), as it sets up the story and some characters background.
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Yes, really enjoyed it, I could imagine it wouldn't be to everyones taste. Very violent as is often the way with Korean offerings.
I then went on to watch Alice in Borderland, been around for a while on Netflix and of a similar genre.
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Re: Squid Game
Watched a couple of episodes.
I don't like it. Not worried by the violence. Violence doesn't bother me. What does bother me is to identify with a story, I have to feel something for at least one of the characters. I don't have to like them, but as long as I feel something, I am happy. I don't feel anything for any of the characters in this. They are just a bunch of generic, badly written losers being played with by a bad company staffed by people with such a lack of personality, they might just as well be robots.
Also, the dubbing. I have no problem with dubbing if it is well done. With most games, the sound department do a good job of making the voice actor sound like they are speaking where the character is sited. If the character is in a large room, the voice actor sounds like they are in a large room. I don't watch many dubbed movies or shows, but the ones that do it well also do this. Squid game doesn't. Every character sounds exactly the same no matter what environment they are in. I haven't heard dubbing this bad since the 90s, when they first added speech to computer games.