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Curtis
First Place Dick
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| Post #1: 26th Nov 2023 4:02 PM | |
I know some people are watching, what do we think so far? | |
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Curtis
First Place Dick
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| Post #2: 29th Nov 2023 7:58 PM | |
Through ep 5
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I'm kinda....loving it? It feels so fresh to me, especially the way it's edited tbh. I'm definitely sad to see Stephen and Rick go and was a bit bummed to see Bryton* or whatever have such a lame elimination (biggest nitpick with the show so far is the poor people being eliminated in Battleship having absolutely no say). But at the same time, when you get behind the idea that these first five episodes were less about building up the endgame contenders and more about building up the people who get eliminated early in brutal or savage or sad ways, it's way easier to stomach
*Hated Bryton ftr, couldn’t wait to see him leave. Kinda just wish he fucked up and embarrassed himself instead of luck
I looove the way having a ton of players allows them to tell quick stories about people's swift demise. The chocolate muffin guy, that weird doctor, the other mullet man and his carrot peeling partner, Stephen's best friend, SPENCER, the guy who pretended to wanna leave, the guy who got the reward, the people who got eliminated by not agreeing to the cookie shape, Dash, Lorenzo, etc. I also love how you start to remember obscure background characters for tiny things they were involved in earlier in the show. I'm always like "oh yeah that guy was the one who did xyz". That's how I felt watching Squid Game too
SHOCKED people didn't split up for the picnic, I guess they were really tricked but it seemed so obvious. Very sad to have to see the mother and son split up now though, I hope whoever survives it goes on to win. But they prob won't!
The Spencer sequence was by far my favorite, poor guy lol. The lean to look at mullet's broken cookie that Dyl mentioned was the funniest fucking thing
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Curtis
First Place Dick
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| Post #3: 7th Dec 2023 9:45 AM | |
Finale
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Yeah that was sadly anticlimactic. On one hand I get it and I understand why they leaned on luck things here and there, it seemed like it was meant to highlight how silly the whole thing was, like the fact that it was all based on kids games. The actual show had a lot of luck too, whether or not you get the umbrella, which order you go on glass bridge, etc. They obviously sat down and were like...if some of these are gonna be dumb luck then let's continue that trend. Kinda highlights the cruel joke - so many people competing for the largest prize ever but it takes little to no actual skill to make it through and maybe win
BUT! I'm still not sure I love the decision, I would rather see soooome opportunity for skill or bluffing or social maneuvering in every single challenge. Like the present one was pretty perfect. The dice one was bad because the players made it bad tbf, that would've been a lot of fun if they didn't kumbaya it. But these finale two were meh. I think they made a big mistake making us wait a week for this, it should've aired last week with the other batch of episodes, it just wasn't strong enough to wait for
Thrilled that Mai won though, she really emerged as the star in the second half. I especially liked her during the present game, her reads were great and that Roland cut was pretty fucking hardcore. Phill and Sam were cool too but she deserved it
I liked the cheesy ending montage showing everyone 'alive and well'. I wish they showed MIKIE! Guy was robbed, he was emerging as one of my favorites. I also loved Chad and Bee down the stretch. Highlight of that segment was showing Spencer enjoying a nice cookie. Highlight of the entire show was the Spencer arc tbh
Overall really enjoyed it for how dumb it was, I thought it had no shot of being interesting when it was first announced but it won me over pretty quickly. The production was pretty impressive (controversies aside I guess) and the way they followed the show was perfect. Very interested to see what they do for s2
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