I'd argue it's the execution that sucks. I'd give s1 of squid game a 6/10 personally. I think the premise was…
Agreed. I tried S2 because I wanted to see T.O.P.'s performance, and indeed, he was the only thing worth watching for. Thus, I skipped forward until I saw that purple hair, watched the scene, then skipped ahead for more purple. After they killed him off, I dropped it.
Awful. I've never seen so many fine actors sitting around talking, talking, talking, talking, talking, in what I expected to be a show full of wild, non-stop, crazy-ass games. Deeply stupid.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...what an almost unbelievably stupid "controversy." Well done, Lily Malice. At least, it's unlikely anyone will kill themselves over this one. oops, sorry, I know that's a disappointment for you.
A government's military lashing out at a silly drama, in defense of "masculine vigor." hahaha And then, the fans who defended the drama scurrying like cockroaches upon realizing they are dragging an official government statement...lol. Terrified they're headed to prison, they issue groveling apologies and delete their accounts. :)
Only in China! :) Don't feel too bad, though, Chinese citizens. You are not alone! We here in the U.S. know our country is fast becoming the type of authoritarian Hellscape you already live in.
This would be so much more romantic, interesting, and most of all, believable, if Sunjae would just go gay with Min Woo, the other young prodigy, who is clearly hot for him.
This is SO much better at 2x speed. lol Which goes to show how absurdly slow the pace of this drama is. Seriously, at 2x, there are STILL scenes that drag, especially when characters are sitting, thinking, feeeeeeeling their emotions, lol. Even at 2x speed, I have skipped ahead multiple times.
SJ's now ex-girlfriend and his/her friend from before his explosion into the music scene have become my favorite characters. That guy always gives me a chuckle. What a great character. Love his easy-going style.
Forging onward...I wish the player I'm in had a 3x setting.
Well, you just broke my heart (Boooo..) I am thinking of all the great scenes that you will miss, but I can't'…
"...the actor walking or driving for long periods to show that he/she is "thinking." lol THIS!
Some of Hye Won's most annoyingly obvious acting has been when she's driving while agitated...is that a crime, a DWA? It should be! I see the actor working so hard to emote her mindset that I have laughed out loud several times, but then I feel bad because the director likely made her do it, and she may be thinking the same thing I am. :)
One of the most ridiculous scenes, and on that also eventually pissed me off, was when the beeyatch called SJ to "drive me around for a couple of hours." I was like wtf? Then, as soon as he pulls away from the curb, she goes to SLEEP! Go sleep in your own mansion, woman! Don't expect this kid to drive you around while you snooze. THEN, she has the nerve to dessert him 50 miles from his home!
Yes, yes, yes, I know...I was supposed to get that there was nowhere she felt peaceful and serene enough to sleep, other than in her presence, blah blah blah, but It. Did. Not. Work And her faux shock and damsel-in-distress reaction to his getting a hotel room, lol, how bogus. The least she could have done was call him and say "no, this ain't happening, dude. Drive me home." After that, I sort of began to hate her and see a lot of the plot as stupid.
The last 3/4 episodes had to be re-written after Sae-Ron left and i think thats why they feel off...i get the…
I began watching for the first time last night, with episode 1, which is quite good. Just about the only violent Yakuza/crime-type shows I enjoy are Korean. I haven't seen KSR yet.
If she is still in most of it, why all the talk of "cutting her out" of it, and why rewrite it at all? I still can't believe NF caved to Korean cancel culture in that regard.
Well, you just broke my heart (Boooo..) I am thinking of all the great scenes that you will miss, but I can't'…
You mean things actually start happening, and not in slow motion? :) Those do sound like exciting scenes. Maybe I'll watch it at double speed and stop when it looks like something critical is about to happen. Thing is, I've become so annoyed with Hye Won and her no/yes/no/yes schtick, that I'm sick of her. Some of her acting hasn't been the greatest, either, but that could be the script's problem. Again, these dramas string everything out so ridiculously long to fill the contracted number of episodes. Filler is king. I've mentioned a lot of reasons for eventually dropping the show in comments below, if you're interested. I loved the first couple of episodes.
Wow. Koreans do Yakuza/action flicks almost as well as they drive their brightest and best to suicide. That was the most believable 10-on-1 movie fight I've ever seen. Another thing Koreans do best is establish characters, and quickly, too. The most likable movie characters--some of them complete douche bags--I've encountered are in Korean flicks.
Stopping midway for now...the glacial pace is killing me. I'm sorry to have to say it, but the only romantic/sexual chemistry between the leads is that which I manufacture in my own mind. It's not there on the screen.
If I weren't a huge Yoo fan, I'd have dropped this by now. This would have made for an intense, absorbing film, but streeeeeeeeeeetched out over 16 hours, is just not it.
Bullshit. Removing Kim Sae Ron was ENTIRELY within the control of Netflix, and they should have told Knetz and the psycho Korean Suicide Machine to fuck themselves and left her in the series. Nobody outside Korea cared, and Korea is a teeny tiny market for a show that was released all over the world.
Netflix is partly responsible for KSR's eventual suicide. "Out of their control," my ass.
Who else would control that decision other than Netflix?!
The last 3/4 episodes had to be re-written after Sae-Ron left and i think thats why they feel off...i get the…
Kim Sae Ron did not "leave," she was brutally cut out of the show as if she never existed, which led to her eventual suicide. Netflix and the director gave Knetz the kill they were after, so fuck them too.
Netflix needs to stop commissioning Korean content if they're going to bend to Knetz insanity every time an actor shows a human frailty. Nobody outside Korea cares if an actor drives drunk, has a crash that doesn't kill or hurt anyone, is punished by the legal system, and then returns to work. No actor would be cut from a show like KSR was, especially considering the size of her role.
Fuck vampire Killer Knetz and the system that enables their sickness.
Fuck Netflix and Bloodhounds director for erasing Kim Sae Ron from this show, as though she was nothing, for the usual Korean celebrity crime of being human, which led directly to her suicide.
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Also, nice try, but the focus of the article is NOT about ZLH fans.
Judging by the public reaction to this show, not many people are worried about what you want producers to "bring back." lol
Awful.
I've never seen so many fine actors sitting around talking, talking, talking, talking, talking, in what I expected to be a show full of wild, non-stop, crazy-ass games. Deeply stupid.
Well done, Lily Malice.
At least, it's unlikely anyone will kill themselves over this one.
oops, sorry, I know that's a disappointment for you.
A government's military lashing out at a silly drama, in defense of "masculine vigor." hahaha
And then, the fans who defended the drama scurrying like cockroaches upon realizing they are dragging an official government statement...lol. Terrified they're headed to prison, they issue groveling apologies and delete their accounts. :)
Only in China! :)
Don't feel too bad, though, Chinese citizens. You are not alone! We here in the U.S. know our country is fast becoming the type of authoritarian Hellscape you already live in.
lol
Oh, the high melodrama!
This would be so much more romantic, interesting, and most of all, believable, if Sunjae would just go gay with Min Woo, the other young prodigy, who is clearly hot for him.
"You...you're a bitch." lol
About time somebody said it out loud. :)
This is SO much better at 2x speed. lol
Which goes to show how absurdly slow the pace of this drama is. Seriously, at 2x, there are STILL scenes that drag, especially when characters are sitting, thinking, feeeeeeeling their emotions, lol.
Even at 2x speed, I have skipped ahead multiple times.
SJ's now ex-girlfriend and his/her friend from before his explosion into the music scene have become my favorite characters. That guy always gives me a chuckle. What a great character. Love his easy-going style.
Forging onward...I wish the player I'm in had a 3x setting.
Some of Hye Won's most annoyingly obvious acting has been when she's driving while agitated...is that a crime, a DWA? It should be! I see the actor working so hard to emote her mindset that I have laughed out loud several times, but then I feel bad because the director likely made her do it, and she may be thinking the same thing I am. :)
One of the most ridiculous scenes, and on that also eventually pissed me off, was when the beeyatch called SJ to "drive me around for a couple of hours." I was like wtf? Then, as soon as he pulls away from the curb, she goes to SLEEP! Go sleep in your own mansion, woman! Don't expect this kid to drive you around while you snooze. THEN, she has the nerve to dessert him 50 miles from his home!
Yes, yes, yes, I know...I was supposed to get that there was nowhere she felt peaceful and serene enough to sleep, other than in her presence, blah blah blah, but It. Did. Not. Work And her faux shock and damsel-in-distress reaction to his getting a hotel room, lol, how bogus. The least she could have done was call him and say "no, this ain't happening, dude. Drive me home." After that, I sort of began to hate her and see a lot of the plot as stupid.
If she is still in most of it, why all the talk of "cutting her out" of it, and why rewrite it at all? I still can't believe NF caved to Korean cancel culture in that regard.
Those do sound like exciting scenes. Maybe I'll watch it at double speed and stop when it looks like something critical is about to happen.
Thing is, I've become so annoyed with Hye Won and her no/yes/no/yes schtick, that I'm sick of her.
Some of her acting hasn't been the greatest, either, but that could be the script's problem. Again, these dramas string everything out so ridiculously long to fill the contracted number of episodes. Filler is king.
I've mentioned a lot of reasons for eventually dropping the show in comments below, if you're interested. I loved the first couple of episodes.
Wow. Koreans do Yakuza/action flicks almost as well as they drive their brightest and best to suicide.
That was the most believable 10-on-1 movie fight I've ever seen.
Another thing Koreans do best is establish characters, and quickly, too. The most likable movie characters--some of them complete douche bags--I've encountered are in Korean flicks.
Stopping midway for now...the glacial pace is killing me.
I'm sorry to have to say it, but the only romantic/sexual chemistry between the leads is that which I manufacture in my own mind. It's not there on the screen.
If I weren't a huge Yoo fan, I'd have dropped this by now.
This would have made for an intense, absorbing film, but streeeeeeeeeeetched out over 16 hours, is just not it.
I'm going to give this one a look sometime soon.
Removing Kim Sae Ron was ENTIRELY within the control of Netflix, and they should have told Knetz and the psycho Korean Suicide Machine to fuck themselves and left her in the series. Nobody outside Korea cared, and Korea is a teeny tiny market for a show that was released all over the world.
Netflix is partly responsible for KSR's eventual suicide.
"Out of their control," my ass.
Who else would control that decision other than Netflix?!
Netflix needs to stop commissioning Korean content if they're going to bend to Knetz insanity every time an actor shows a human frailty. Nobody outside Korea cares if an actor drives drunk, has a crash that doesn't kill or hurt anyone, is punished by the legal system, and then returns to work. No actor would be cut from a show like KSR was, especially considering the size of her role.
Fuck vampire Killer Knetz and the system that enables their sickness.
Congratulations, Knetz, and fuck you too.