Squid Game Season 2 – More Hollywood Bait and Switch

Posted on by ( 3 comments already! )
Spread the love

Loading

The Netflix series Squid Game became a sensation back in 2021 when its first season hit. The imdb summary for anyone unfamiliar:

Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children’s games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits with deadly high stakes: a survival game that has a whopping 45.6 billion-won prize at stake.

I won’t give any spoilers for anyone who hasn’t seen it, but the series was excellent. To flesh it out a bit without giving anything away, the story follows Seong Gi-hun, a South Korean man who is down on his luck and deep in debt. A well dressed stranger approaches him and offers some money to play a few games with him. Having baited the hook, the stranger offers the prospect of playing games for much higher stakes. Seong accepts the offer, and ends up joining a massive elimination game with deadly consequences. Although I’m generally not a fan of subtitles foreign films, season One delivered. I can’t recommend it highly enough, which is what made season 2 so disappointing. The few spoiler free reviews I watched warned that the second season went off the rails, but I watched anyway.

SEASON 2 SPOLIERS AHEAD

If you’re planning to watch Season 1, stop here. Reviewing Season 2 will give away how the first ends, and I’ll be here when you come back.

Even though Season 2 came out in 2024, I didn’t get around to watching until a month ago. And as I watched, I couldn’t figure out what the critics were talking about, as the season was an excellent extension of the first. We return to Seong, who decided to use his wealth to destroy the Squid Games. He hires teams of investigators to help him track down the recruiter he’d met in season one, and eventually finds his quarry (after a difficult search) and winds up playing the games again with the intention of using his inside knowledge to take them down from the inside. Simultaneously and independently, Hwang Jun Ho has resumed his quest to find his missing brother, having survived the shooting at the end of season 1 that cost him some key memories. The two different angles of pursuit make for some great storytelling, especially once we realize that both efforts have traitors in their midst. The only seemingly minor down note was that one of the new participants in this year’s games is a Transsexual (I refuse to use the terms “Transgender” or “Trans”, as I see them as a way The Radical Left twist the language to make an offensive idea seem more innocent. And yes, I was one of those “small l” libertarians who had the “live and let live” attitude towards the LGBQWERTY, Silent P crowd until they came for the kids. That was where I drew the line, and enough of this sidebar), and over the course of this seven episode half season is that the tranny (who I don’t care about enough to name – if I’m “deadnaming” here I might as go all out) will be the hero of this story.

We’re introduced to Tranny when the second game forces teams of four to form. Tranny ends up on a team of four misfits unwanted by any other team, as nobody is interested in having Dr. Frank N Furter on their team. Of course, he ends up making an immediate contribution, helping his team clear round 2 alive. Two other compatriots of his end up being a 30 something man and his mom, both of whom unknowingly joined independently to pay off the son’s gambling debts. As they interact, Mom learns to accept Tranny, sending the ever so subtle message, HEY OLDER PEOPLE, TRANSSEXUALS ARE TOTALLY COOL AND YOU NEED TO ACCEPT THEM. As the half season winds down and Seong leads an armed rebellion to bring down the Squid Game leaders, when the shooting starts one member of the team starts cowering in fear. Of course, this guy is a former marine. But guess who’s leading his strike force? It’s Tranny, of course! And, did I forget to mention that Tranny got kicked out of the military? Luckily, Squid Game is here to tell us that TRANSSEXUALS ARE FIERCE AND BRAVE AND THEY WILL PROTECT US!

Holly wood loves to do this. Here are three examples off of the top of my head:

  • Mila Kunis and Glenn Close made a good movie five years ago called “Four Good Days”, a story about a mom helping her daughter’s fight with drug addiction. Or at least it was good until they Close showed Kunis an ad in the paper featuring the woman who was Realtor of the Year. Who years earlier was the Homecoming King, where they got a giggle and I tuned out.
  • Only Murders in the Building is a fun show on Hulu featuring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez. It’s a fun, quirky show focused around life in New York. Until I got pulled out of it by the black female detective going home to her pregnant lesbian wife. Done.
  • Probably the most egregious example came when I was watching the movie “Hellraiser” on Hulu, a 2022 reboot of the 80s classic which also spawned a number of sequels. While horror has never been a genre I’ve been into (Most are either built around jump scares or murder porn, both of which bore me quickly), but the Hellraiser series always had a certain style that I enjoyed. This Hulu reboot had Pinhead (The main demonic tormentor from this series) as a female. I didn’t have a problem with this, as the Cenobites (Pinhead and his demonic peers) were always a bit androgynous. This movie starts out with the familiar pattern of these films. There’s a brief opening segment where an unsuspecting rube opens the gateway to Hell and is killed with a bit of gore. The next 30 minutes or so are just a regular story about someone dealing with some kind of hard times, with no mention of anything supernatural. Eventually we get t- OH MY GOD WHY WOULD YOU SHOW SOMETHING SO GROTESQUE! I CAN’S UNSEE THIS – WHERE CAN I GET SOME BLEACH TO POUR OVER MY EYEBALLS! OFF BUTTON WHERE IS THE OFF BUTTON ON THE REMOTE?!? The scene it cut to was of two naked guys in bed kissing. At least they had a sheet covering them from the waist down, but it didn’t diminish the  revulsion that this scene produced. The worst part? I had to go in and briefly resume the stream, just so I could rewind a few minutes. In the one in a million chance of either of them clicking on the movie, I couldn’t risk exposing Sister Babe or Little Bob to that scene.

Back to the original topic, the worst part of Squid Game is that the story itself was excellent. And I have absolutely zero interest in watching how the story concludes when the final season drops in June. Sorry Hollywood, but it’s not 2020 anymore, and people are sick of being cudgeled with the LGBQWERTY agenda. It’s your funeral, Hollywood, and few tears will be shed over your demise.

Brother Bob is no longer on Facebook (although you can see his archives there), and is back on Twitter again, but is ramping up on Minds and Gab, and has his biggest presence on MeWe.

Cross posted from Brother Bob’s Blog

0 0 votes
Article Rating
3 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments

TOTALLY UN RELATED

60 years ago we called another branch “sQUIDS””! I almost spit my coffee out. Brought back memories!

Hey Im old! Still mean but hardly lean!

1

I never served, but if I remember correctly from old coworkers the slurs that can only be used by those who serve are Grunt, Squid, Flyboy, and Jarhead?

0

I have for decades BEEN PROUD TO CALL MY SELF “GRUNT”

1