Fun fact: The phone number on the back of the card is a real number in Korea that someone had owned for several years. The producers of the show were ordered to pay 5 million won (roughly $5,000) in damages due to the huge numbers of calls made to that number after the show became popular.
Truee he cant easily exchange his number bcs he's been running business for 20 years with old customer that only know that number It's happening on international but korean hate it bcs involve someone privacy Hope it'll solved soon and they can keep going on S2
I lowkey understand the desperation of being that in debt. Shit, this is the future for us student loan people. S. Korea needs to stop giving our gov't ideas😒
Yep, no matter where they go, even when they leave, they'll end up dead, miserable or hunted down because of the debt they have. So they rather risk their life in the game to pay off those debts.
Fun fact: When they are outside in this episode, there are the hints like a "premonition" for each character the way they're gonna end during the game or after: "the stolen bag", "the jump/fall", "the suicide attempt", "the knife to the throat", "the money rejection". Of course, you'll realize this after rewaching the show, ha!
Why there are two versions of the subtitles? When I watched on my own it clearly stated the majority. I also noticed this with many other US reactors, the subtitles described the clause 3 wrong. Should have been with “majority”.
there's a whole reddit thread on the bad subtitles. apparently one is English transcribed for the dubs and the other is english CC. Both are shit though.
Alice in Borderland is not nearly as good as Squid Game. What makes Squid Game far way superior is that the story makes sense, they created this creepy world in a way that it makes sense, we get to know why the players end up willingly playing those games and everything wraps quite well at the end so we get a perfect closure for the end of the season. Alice in Borderland on the other hand is simply about random people taken in this creepy "world" that does not really make sense and it is never well explained how it works or who is behind this, it has a lot of flaws and the only purpose of the series is to see people playing deadly games for the sake of it without having any good story arc or character development... And seriously, I started watching Alice in Borderland and by the end of episode 3 I was already bored... I forced myself to watch the 4th episode and that was it... I decided watch a recap video here in RU-vid so I could knew how the series was going to end without having to waste hours watching the show and by watching those recaps I realized I was right and the show was not sensical at all so I was happy to save time by watching a recap. Squid Game on the other hand got me completely binged since episode 2 onward and I loved how the story developed and how everything made sense at the end. No wonder why Squid Game has become one of the greatest his of Netflix and a world phenomenon while Alice in Borderland only became another forgettable Neflix show.
@@manuelcorrea2365 cause it's an adaptation of a manga, of course it's not going to fit all the story in one season genius, if you wanna know the explanation for everything go read the manga, plus they're working on season 2 anyway, in pretty sure they'll explain everything there
@@adumba3709 I know it's an adaptation of a Manga, "genius"! However, my comment still holds; the problem with Japanese mangas and animes is that they create them to last forever so they don't take care that the stories are consistent and that problem (that can be passed in Mangas or Animes) is way enhanced in their respective live action adaptations like Gantz or Alice in Borderland. And for the record, what's the actual explanation of Alice in Borderland in the manga? That everybody was actually death and the main character was in a kind of limbo between life and death... In other words, a completely anticlimactic and mediocre explanation but yet the only one they were able to come up with to explain the world of Borderland given that they did not take care to make sure the story could hold together...
@@manuelcorrea2365 Well, to each their own, I personally liked both the manga and Netflix show as much as Squid game because I love death games in general
YO!!!! I just looked up the exchange rate of just the first stage of prize money. lol In US dollars 25.5 billion won comes to 21.2 million or 27.4 million in Can. dollars. And that shit is just stage 1. I forgot what the final tally was. I'll have to watch it again and calculate the exchange.
2:35 mention this on another channel reaction tot his ep. basically the total prize after ppl died in usd is about 40k bucks. 1000 won to usd is pretty much 84 cents. so each of their lives they are only worth around 850 bucks usd.
Don't forget, Tasha that none of them are there of their own free will. They were all taken and brought there. They got into the Minivan freely and signed a contract, yes, but no one told them they would be playing the "Schoolyard Hunger Games." lol. I mean if let's say you have a fear of bugs and someone say he can cure you, then he knock you out and you wake up in a cage with hungry wolves that ain't been fed in over a week. You ain't gonna be scared of bugs no more. lol.
@@mfludd7436 Yes, true, but when they were shown the money they would be playing for and when they all started begging to go home, they were still only just done from their first game. They hadn't yet voted and hadn't gone home to come back yet, is what I was talking about. On their "first" go around all they knew was that they signed a contract to a game that could wipe out their debts; but I'm absolutely certain there was NO mention that they could get Merc'd. That's a big detail, don't you think??
I’m not trying to be racist, but I too thought Ali was Indian at first because he reminds me of Kunal Nayyar and the way he played Raj in The Big Bang Theory
I thought the same thing. I thought the old man was going to vote to stay. I also didn't think they would let the players go. I don't know why, but I'm suspicious of the old man. I'm wondering if he's in on it with the ones in charge. What a coincidence he happens to be in the same area as Gi-Hun. Then when they are about to transport the players back to the game, he is the only person they didn't show getting gassed in the van... Maybe I'm wrong but I'm off to watch episode 3 to see what happens next😊 Nice reactions guys.
@@fritzk3627 what are you even saying ? If you're trying to say you prefer dub then I'm 100% judging. Dub removes all emotion and chemistry from a scene 😬😬😬 you might aswell just listen to the show and not look at the screen.
Ew! Are you seriously considering watching with DUB?! That's GROSS. SUPPORT THE ACTORS and how much work they put into their characters. The raw emotions.
I hate how people watch the tub part and think oh he’s just chilling in the bathtub, no he has his clothes on drinking with the tub full of water, look at all the stuff on the ground to the right, it’s suicide and it’s an easy way over in Korea. I wish people would educate themselves and learn you know?
