SQUID GAME | S01E02 - "Hell" | Spoiler Review & Breakdown | 오징어 게임 

I just realised that this episode is called ‘Hell’ but its not even about a game, its just their real life.

I've never seen a death game do this: actually let the players quit. Battle royale, hunger games, Danganronpa, no one. It's something so unthinkable cause why would they come back right? It hits so much harder now that I know they *chose* this, like they are less of a victim. The show proved to us what they said is true, their normal lives is actually worse than the game.

This show perfectly depicted that life is hell for those with no money.

The character "Ali" is a Pakistani character in the series played by an indian actor.

I love how smug everyone acts "Of course they vote to continue playing" and then are all shocked when it did not went in the direction they were expecting.

Jaby: "I thought it was going to be a sweet little moment!" Achara: "No, we’re watching a Korean show!" 😂😂😂😂😂

Old man: picks to terminate game Every reactor: shocked Pikachu face

23:09 he's actually Indian in real life but in the show he's playing a Pakistani

When Jaby reacted to a scene like, 'this is painful, this is painful....' My already ripped apart heart got ripped apart again.

legal foreign workers in s korea earn money equal with korean. working in the same circumstance and also receive the same social security service like free insurance but in case of illegal alien it ll be different. few bad employees use their situation above but thats apparently illegal. but illegal alian workers dont report them caz they r worried about being expelled out of korea.

2nd ,6th and last episode makes it a masterpiece.

This is my first taste of Korean cinema and I'm loving it, I'm only 5 episodes in but my god its so damn good.

I really like your discussion about the cultural aspects of the episode/show regarding the North Korean and foreigner issues in South Korea. North Koreans do have a very distinct accent… not to mention their expressions and certain words are quite different. So, they would be recognized instantly if they spoke in public in South Korea. The guy that deceived the North Korean girl and got threatened by her in this episode has a very strong North Korean accent. So, basically, one North Korean defector scammed another poor North Korean defector and her family. As for foreigners, South Korea has been struggling with multiculturalism. There is a lot of racism, too. Recently, there are more inter-racial couples in Korea. But, even 15 years ago, it was quite rare. And, of course, a lot of foreigners come to work and get exploited like in this show. The director and writers probably wanted to show these societal/cultural struggles in Korea in this show. As for the Indian actor, his character is from Pakistan. The actor is Indian. You will know in the next episode. I don’t think it is a spoiler, so I am letting you know.

I'm surprised they're not laughing at the police station scene. I just LOL when the girl answered the phone 🤣🤣🤣

The squid game topped Netflix, but in fact, there are shows in Korea that are rated higher than the squid game. It's a show called D.P., and you can think of it as a show like NCIS. I strongly recommend it.

Ep.2 is so important episode you will know after you finish the series.

I'm living and working in SK so i can tell you some real life info. SK has highest minimum wage in Asia (11 USD) and it applies to immigrant workers of course. if you don't get paid you report. unfortunately Ali is an illegal immigrant... NK girl speaks NK dialect and the Broker speaks in Chinese accent. if you listen to their intonation closely, you get the difference. Gi-hun needed to pay 2k USD for diabetic treatment and you know thats cheap bc its already insured by national insurance. the insurance Gi-hun's talking about is an private insurance that comes on top of national one hwich automatically covers all korean nationals and legal residents from abroad.

Everyone: squid game is violent. Me: *it's not violent enough*

Korean word '선물Seonmul', it's homonym. Pronunciation is same but it can be meaning 'future' or 'gift'. So, Gihun asked Seongwoo if he got girlfriend

I absolutely love your reactions. 9:38 This scene is about homonyms. In Korea, gifts and futures are the same pronunciation. Since futures are jargon, the general public does not know them well, and most recognize them as gifts. 14:19 This is the scene where Sang-woo tries to commit suicide. Burning briquettes or lightning coal releases carbon monoxide, and poisoning to carbon monoxide in an enclosed space causes difficulty breathing and eventually leads to death.

Guys, I've been following you for a while, about a year, and literally I've never seen such a reaction from both of you. The fact that this show effects on you this much, shows me that it's well deserved to be Netflix's Most Streamed Show Ever. Glad to see your face in good shock! 😉😍 Love you guys!❤

Oh thank God you uploaded I'm done with the show but I want to watch your reactions so badly. I was waiting since morning lol

This episode name was "Hell" What a perfect title... ✌🙌

I really like how you two are dissecting the story very thoroughly. I have a feeling you two are going to be crying hearts out on ep 6. Awesome stuff.

Just like Achara said, the best known Korean movie to portray the struggle of poverty is as we all know, "Parasite"

We want "Dark" German series which available on Netflix,reaction of all three season + trailer✋✋

'future' mean : futures contract (in finance)

//spoilers of all 9 episodes ahead I read somewhere that the fate of the main characters was actually hinted in the 2nd episode itself - sae byeok threatened a person with a knife on their throat and she died by getting her neck slit by a knife - ali ran away will someone else's money, someone else took away ali's marbles - deoksu jumps off a bridge to save himself from the other goons, he dies by falling off a bridge (the glass bridge game) - sangwoo tries to drown himself and at last he dies by willingly committing suicide - gi hun swears on his mother and then breaks the promise, his mother is dead by the time he arrives home AND ALL OF THIS WAS HINTED IN THE 2ND EPISODE ALONE??🤯🤯 hatsoff to the story writer and the directors

the coolest twist that no one seen it coming (at least from all the reaction I see and myself) all thought the old man would vote YES. and that is what make it brilliant, not only it is a twist that make ppl go oh what? , it also works into the story. that is a good twist than many movies/tv shows nowadays that have twist for the sake of twist, for shock value,

The shocked faces at 6:12 is pure gold😂

9:37 korean homophone part "Seon-Mul" - 1. gift 2. futures

I've been enjoying g Watching lots of reactions to this show...everyone's face when a) the old man picks to leave...nobody was expecting that. B) ali's boss getting his had mangled

Futures are a financial industry thing. Basically, it's a contract that you'll pay the current price for something, but you won't get it until later, at which point the price may have changed. So it's basically gambling on what the prices of the stock market will be in the future. (At least, that's how I understand it; financial stuff is just jargon on top of abstraction on top of more jargon.)

1. (4:09-4:10) Stop the presses!!! Lady Achara dropped the f-bomb (granted, it was for quotation accuracy)!!! 2. (10:33-10:52) Jaby must've had a flashback during this scene. I can tell how emotional he got.

North Korean refugees get offered financial supports and settlement programs by South Korean government upon their arrival as far as I understand. However, when they run out all the supports, it could be quite challenging for some refugees to take care of themselves as "South" Koreans due to cultural and social differences they have never experienced. In Sae-byeok's case, she needs to find a way to bring her parents so she hired a broker, who is a Korean-Chinese(based on his Korean accent) and a big time scammer. About Ali, I think he is an illegal worker, that is why he cannot take any legal actions to get his salary that he deserves and the employer knows it so well so he is manipulating the situation.

You should watch DARK (3 seasons).

I can't decide which I like more: The Halo shirt or the The Dark Knight mug. Ultimately, it's both.

I really love this reactor, they're very intimate and keen observer from what's going on within the story and the whole production itself. Plus the really understand each character povs'. New sub here

Money Heist Suit and PlayStation Symbols were hunting me everytime I see the soldiers...🤣🤣 Story just sucked me into it.. and switched me to don't care mode.

25:17 yes north korean sounds kinda different from south korean. And she did it very well.

When his daughter said 'dad why' that made me so sad 😢

I love this series so much. Watched it twice. First time alone than again with my brother

you guys are my two favourite pals on the internet :)

this is the first time someone pointed out she named the fish shop after him, i never realized. makes it more heart breaking

An excellent reaction and fantastic discussion afterwards

be ready to see characters change drastically soon, one in particular

9:50 futures is a part of derivatives. It's stock trading.

99% of Urdu verbs are from Sanskrit. Basically Hindi isn't like Urdu, Urdu is like Hindi.

That scene with the guy drinking in the bath tub. There was a charcoal heating brick on the stove being heated. Suicide by charcoal brick carbon monoxide poisoning is a common K-drama trope.

love love love your reaction, especially episode 2 because everyone thought we're never getting out of the island and then they just flipped the card so hard, and blindsided all of us viewers.

31:43 achara @ present and future

I don’t know so much about stock as well…but as far as I know Future is like a you buy stocks in advance. So he ends up with a lot of debt. And for NK girl, since a war between SK and NK is technically not over yet. So there is no way that government suuport them to escape from there, then it will cause so many problem related to war. So NK ppl usually pay brokers to get throguh China or south east asia to get to SK. But once they arrive there, after several months of checking if they’re not suspicious like a spy, they’re free to live in SK as citizen. And it’s true that there is some prejudice towards them, but it’s not much like “garbage”. And about portraiting uncomfortable points of society, we don’t feel bad about it unless it’s a pure lie. If we want to hide it, there wouldn’t have been a parasite from the first place. Oscar, netflix..we don’t care.

More than half of the North Korean population has watched South Korean movies and dramas at the risk of being put in jail if they are caught watching them. Kim jung-en ordered to their citizen not to say 'oppa' in their daily conversation or they will be put in jail for 3 years at least. Oppa literally refers to a girl's older brother. But here in Korea, she can call her husband or boyfriend Oppa when he is older than she. But in North Korea, you can call oppa only to her old brother. So Kim jung en ordered to put anyone in jail to serve 3 years at least if she calls oppa other than her older brother

Dang it. In 'future' word, Sangwoo meant "future" which is related to investment or stock. He's working at financial company. Gihun meant "gift". That's why he asked about his girlfriend.

Korean movie and series have been brought up all the dark side since forever, a lot of times they put it in romance and thriller genre... From the school bullying, debt, to suicide.

Welcome to kdramas. Korean serials are toooo goood man. After squid games would love to see you react to the famous kdrama CRASH LANDING ON YOU

23:25 FYI Basically no natural resources in Korea, but they had to boost their economy. → So the word "human resource" has more serious meaning in this country. → Which leads to very high passion for education. → People exposed to deadly competition. → Physical labour considered some kind of failing. That explains why Korea marks the world's highest suicide rate & lowest birth rate. → With current rate, Korea's population will be cut down to 70% in 50 years, to 30% in 100 years. That means young generations have to sustain 2~3 times large number of elders in few years and it already started. → Literally there are no working forces in some fields like agriculture, manufacturing, and so on. So yes, a LOT of migrant workers are working in Korea. Mainly south-east asians who are replacing korean-chinese's place. Korean-chineses were used to be industrial workers once, but they are doing what overseas chinese are doing in every other countries. (gathering up in specific region and only work for their own/family businesses) For example, Ansan. (industrial satellite city, where Ali's home located in SG) Migrant workers hold 8% of population and it's drastically increasing. As the number increases, problems like badass employers and worker's crime rates are popping up.

CAN'T WAIT FOR YOU TWO TO REACH EPISODE 6 😁

Ali character is from Pakistan n he speaking Hindi

Love love love this series ❤️🙏🙏🙏 If there is Oscar for web series, this should win!

Jaby and achara ❤️❤️❤️❤️. I just wanted to thank both of u I have never loved any reaction ever before .. But seeing ur is just fun ...Ty very much

Omg. The dried noodle expanding in the stomach. 🤣 My mom used to say the same too! Best brand to eat dried is pork or beef flavored Mama noodles.

can"t wait till episode 6 😶

Korean horror is now my favorite

was just looking for the second episode reaction

Man I love your reactions, looking forward to the next episode.

When I was watching this episode, when the doorbell rang repeatedly at Sang-Woo’s apartment, my dog perked up, looking at the tv. Pavlov’s doorbell!

This episode really depicted all of their deaths, Marbel stolen, throat cut, suicide, fell of the bridge.

Omg! LOL! I love how you said that your mom told you that your stomach would explode, because that's exactly how we used to eat ramen when we're little, in primary, and one of my classmates told me that. But instead of your stomach exploding, she said you'll grow white plastic in your stomach. ROFL!

Really liking these reactions guys, keep 'm coming!

There is a Real Life Lore video detailing how difficult it is to escape North Korea and the consequences when getting caught. It's pretty chilling. I thought about the possibility of being kidnapped in South Korea and transported to North Korea.

SQUID GAME IS GAME CHANGER FOR NETFLIX.

So fun watching this video as korean

To them...the outside regular life is "Hell". Damn.

jaby sounds like a radio dj .. great reaction

the conditions of migrant workers is not as bad as you might think. Korean laws protect them well. Also, there are no guns in Korea except in the military. They are very rare. Even the cops don't carry guns. And North Koreans in SK are not treated in a back or white way. There is not as much hostility because of the laws but differences are there for sure.

The guy you're talking about is from Pakistan. It will be revealed later.

Love your discussion after the episodes. You make so many good points!

I'm with Achara on the dry Ramen. Used to have it in aftercare after school 🍜 😋

Lol making this more about NK only.....the situation is same everywhere in every country for majority of people cause its capitalism we're living in,folks...why is it so hard for you to get it when it is so apparent

16:55 haha. I went to uni in China and was known as the girl who always left a nongshim ramen cup outside my door at night for the cleaning people to throw out. My best friend there tried to convince me the same thing. I didn't totally understand the science words he was using but he even showed me on his phone x-rays of intestines and I was like 'whatev bro!! Nongshim is 🏆'

do watch strangers from hell,this and strangers are one of the best series i have ever seen

I finished watching this series today...i loved it...this series is amazing

Love your reaction...Until next episode!!

The staff you see with red costume and that mask on are like red ants and that games design of the place they sleep is ants nests

The Indian guy is Pakistani in the show.. the subtitles say it's urdu but it's actually regular Hindi... Urdu is very different..

I've watched a number of kdramas and cinema on Netflix. I'm really digging the acting and writing. I have already seen the series. Not going to give any spoilers. I'm enjoying some of the reactions, not just you guys and your brothers channels. I like seeing how you are all trying to piece it all together. Each episode just gets you more invested in the main characters.

Alright.. listen to me.. take a day.. binge watch all of the episodes.. record.. and gimmi the whole damn show already!! 😩😩😩

We all know what's going on with foreign workers since most of us come across them in our daily lives. We just didn't have good enough actors to portray those types of characters for cinemas in depth. I hope the trend would continue.

love the ending shots and cuts of this episode

I absolutely did not expect that the game was going to end too

Girl you are absolutely correct. Ali was speaking hindi in there. Yes, hindi uses many urdu words but the man was speaking hindi. Actually quite impressive that as a westerner who doesn't speak the language you could make the distinction between the two languages.

My OCD is in drive, Achara please sit on the right 😭😩🤷‍♀️🤣. I'm used to seeing you on the right lol

Love y’all reaction this show is amazing very addictive show

This show truly deserves they hype it has now and more some. Episode 2 shows more of its uniqueness. Actually giving the players a choice to leave or not unlike in other death shows like hunger games battle royale or danganropa where youre held against your will to play

The most surprising part of the series was not the deaths, but instead the fact that their voting was respected and they left.

React to "DARK" Jaby and Achara.

The real master mind behind this squid game is old man

please watch ( strangers from hell ) it's a masterpiece

First time comment here, love your reactions and comments for this episode. Can’t wait for your reactions for the rest of the show.