User Reviews

One of the better episodes. Squid game or games is more then just a game, but a social experiment. After the character development of the last episode pushes the characters into the story line for the next episode. The viewer finds out the dorm become a prison. There is not enough food and there a line cuts. The plot twist is when one of the players is killed in a fight, and the money toll goes up and free for all starts. Desperate gamers in need of money divide into tribe as the criminal element thrives. Well directed and executed. . A must watch. 8 stars.

I wish I was Korean just so I could enjoy this episode in all its glory. Exceptional acting and action. The ending is absolutely edge of your seat stuff!

Another fantastic episode. I normally hate strobe lighting but it was used wonderfully here in the most shocking set-piece yet, and it's not even a game! The quality of the direction is top-notch and the suspense is out of the window. The next game is just as riveting as the last two, and my only complaint is with the cliffhanger ending; I hate these but can let them off thanks to the overall quality if th show.

This episode is amazing. The acting was phenomenal and the big fight after lights out was both great action but also emotional at the same time. This series is really making you wonder who to root for and blurring the line of morality.

Just for the ambush in the night alone, shot like a proper horror movie, this episode ties with the pilot in quality and awe. When the violence strikes, it really hurts. Plus, to see how guards react and some clues left here and there are an absolute joy to watch. Riveting.

That police officer and his story is ridiculous, the place is so organized and the cameras is every where... however our officer is moving around changing masks and do the work among blind partners.

This show is getting good now lots of action in this episode with the players fighting after lights out and then having the 3rd game of tug of war. I love how all the players are coming together now.

From quitting after ep 1 to force-watching the following ones, through this. THIS is the moment I've been waiting for, that made me feel emotions - excitement, anger, fear, sympathy... and the game was also the best one so far. Just wished they hadn't cut off the ending and left us guessing.

There was chaos under strobing lights so that the weaker players would be killed by the others after a weaker meal than usual. The overly attached woman was betrayed by her lover with a tattoo on his face and she swore to kill him. The old man seems to have dementia and his wisdom in this game seems to save them. The thief girl has brought another girl to the team and the doctor is involved in organ trafficking with some workers in pink suits with the bodies of heavily wounded eliminated players.

I'm choosing to review the show through this episode because its where the show peaked, absolutely terrifying scenario got me on the edge on my seat. But the show loses it's traction towards the end with stupid plot twists and cringe Vips. Yes the final twist is good and make sense but the strongest point of the show to me was that success is often measured by money when it should be measured by how much of a human a person is. Another complaint is how good characters die in terrible gory ways while the despicable ones die off screen. Game of Thrones suffered from that too, always being cruel with good characters while not showing the revenge death. But this was a hell of an experience. Koreans are amazing in the television business but this show could have been on another level. Crazy good show that after episode 6 suffers to stay interesting. A lot of things make sense with the twist from episode 9 but its not enough to reach the levels it did in the first 6 episodes. The characters were very well fleshed out and the irony of all that brutality being just the old guy wanting to feel like he used to as a kid was sweet. My review is all over the place i know, my mind doesn't think in a linear way. Definitely watch it. Looking forward for more Korean gems.

What was brilliant about this episode is how it unveiled the most interesting, crucial, and horrifying dimension to the whole game: the fact that murdering your fellow players is 100% game-legal. You can just see the whole social paradigm of their situation shatter around Gi-hun and the other roughly good-aligned characters in sharp, grisly fragments as it begins to dawn on them that, in order to win the whole thing, they not only have to survive the lethally strict rules of each game, but survive each other. And by extension, we get the first hints that even the good will have to turn killer to win.

That latter element is, again I'll use the word, brilliantly explored for audience and player alike in the game they play right after that gruesome night: tug of war. It's the first game where winning means killing, as opposed to the previous games where theoretically everyone could win and move to the next round. And the filmmakers did a great job reflecting just how heavy the moral weight was of having to pull those other human beings over the edge and to their deaths.

After the first episode, I was pretty disappointed that the games seemed to be fairly one-dimensional (be good at avoiding a motion sensor and you'll pass) but then "Hell" added another dimension by adding the element of agency to the game: they can leave and come back at the majority's will. But this episode, "Stick to the Team," took it even further by adding this central, gripping dimension that would define the show to the end: Kill or Be Killed.