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That was really cool! Thanks for posting the video. Love the music and animation.
Yes, fun credits. I'm enjoying watching the show; just wish it wasn't so straight-faced - Bixby's character is awfully wooden for a trickster.
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Oct 13, 2021 - 3:41 AM
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Some of you have mentioned SQUID GAME already. I managed to get to the end of the series last night. In general I thought it was pretty good, certainly watchable, although I'm not sure why it has become such a HUGE hit (I didn't even know what it was when someone recommended I watch it).
It's probably more conventional than it appears at the beginning. The infiltration by the cop etc, and the very "real people" behind the masks and the suits kind of takes away from the initial WTFery - perhaps for the good, I'm not sure. It's almost, at those moments, like a James Bond film (the old, silly ones). I did begin to really like the protagonists (except the boo-hiss horrid ones we were successfully supposed to hate). At the end I felt that nothing really lived up to the first episode, with the first game (those giant kids' dolls), but it was okay and sometimes even moving. Ah, one thing which I thought was TERRIBLE was the American-accented, immensely rich VIPs, wearing their jewel-studded masks and commenting on the games - "Just what the hell does he think he's doing?", "Hey, come over here and we'll talk about a 69!", It sounded so horrendously dubbed and terribly artificial. In fact it put me in mind of the awful dubbing of the American characters in Polanski's THE TENANT. Surely this was badly-done on purpose... for whatever purpose (?)
Having mentioned THE TENANT, I may as well finish by listing the amount of films and TV shows SQUID GAME reminded me of. I have no idea if this was intentional on the part of the creators, but I was by turn reminded of the original TV version of THE PRISONER, by some of the films of Kubrick (2001 and EYES WIDE SHUT among them), some works by David Fincher (THE GAME and FIGHT CLUB), plus a few etceteras. I do realise that even the most recent "influence" I've mentioned is now more than twenty years old, so you'll be able to fill the gaps with more films and series from the past two decades.
Yeah, SQUID GAME was watchable. One thing I'm having a real struggle with is LOVECRAFT COUNTRY. La señora is up to about Episode 6 of Season 1, but I just can't get a grip on it at all. I'll struggle through another episode and if it's still annoying me I'll give up and do something more worthwhile.
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Paris Police 1900. Its a kind of grittier french version of Ripper Street. Reminds me of Babylon Berlin in style. Very authentic locations and production values.
8.8 out of 10
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Half way through Squid Game, and it's ok. Yeah, I read the earlier post but such things never bother me. It already looks more conventional than the hype would have us believe.
Thanks for The Magician tune. The trumpet playing reminds me of The Green Hornet.
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Graham, lovecraft country was garbage.
I stuck with it but wished id given up.
No actually i wished someone had warned me so i didnt have to watch any of it.
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Oct 20, 2021 - 1:48 AM
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Graham Watt
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Graham, lovecraft country was garbage.
I stuck with it but wished id given up.
No actually i wished someone had warned me so i didnt have to watch any of it.
Well Bill, I like a lot of stuff that you think is garbage, and vice versa I'm sure. But it's good to know that we're in agreement about this. I watched it till the end in the hope that it would all kind of come together in some way, but it just kept falling apart more and more. I must admit once more that I am incapable of following plots, but I couldn't even find anything at all in any of the characters to hold on to. Who's he? Why's she doing that? What happened there? I did quite like some of the music (Laura Karpman?), but the songs were sometimes a terrible choice, especially the rap, scratch and reggaeton for the scenes set in 1930. Perhaps I'm just too old and braindead to "get it", but if a spaceship had appeared in the middle of one of the episodes, and Elvis Presley had come out saying that life on Mars isn't all it's cracked up to be, I wouldn't have batted an eyelid.
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Yes it was just a jumbled, incoherent clusterfuck of a series. Avoid at all costs.
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There used to be a UK TV Game Show during the 70's and 80's called 3-2-1 (hosted by Ted Rogers).
The joke about the show was that there were cryptic clues given by a Dusty Bin to contestants, linked to the prizes, and they were laughable in their random incoherence when revealed.
I'm still torturing myself watching MANIFEST and the 'Callings' the characters get (a shared vision that they have to decipher asap) are akin to the Dusty Bin clue explanations.
We've gotten to hooting with derision now when they attempt to match the visions to what they're supposed to do.
There's almost a tortured joy to watching it and spoofing at it.
We're into series 3 now, with Netflix promising to end it all with a final series next year.
Comeback LOST, all is forgiven.
The self-flagellation will continue 
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We've also started watching a U.S comedy series called A.P BIO.
It's quite similar to shows like SCRUBS and BROOKLYN 9/9, in its silly, scattershot jokey humour and situations.
A bitter/loser ex-professor, who takes up a job teaching Biology at his hometown school, with the promise to teach the kids NOTHING about Biology, even though they want to learn.
It's amiable enough with some decent silly jokes and situations.
5 eps in and it's the proverbial 'easy watch'.
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I finished Dexter season 5 a few days ago, great stuff! I now have the less that loved seasons 6-8 to watch, but I'll keep an open mind, I might like them, I'm usually out of step with the popular opinion. I think that the new one off Dexter season started tonight.
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Ep1 of Dexter new blood. Its as good as ever.
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keV, we've got the last ep. tonight. I've been enjoying it. Not remarkable but we'll done, decent cast. Walken had my favourite favourite line/ reply( delivery of)- ' can we keep it'.
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Just finished The Orville and loved every minute of it. Takes me back to the real Star Trek, and is actually funnier than any Doctor Who since it's revival. Less flamboyance and humour that actually hits the spot.
As for their version of the Cybermen. Wow. That's how to do it.
And proper music score too, as opposed to that cushion of sound in all the Trek sequels, zzzzzzz.
Looking forward to the next (last?) series.
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