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SPOILER! It was intriguing to watch the first 1.5 seasons with lots of illogical events took place, but you’d be forgiving and reason that it’s cinema. The latter half of the second season made it all trash. THERE IS NO POLICE FORCE IN MEXICO! Everyone takes care of their own issues like thugs. Guy went to prison learned everything, came out able to hack the world, to design explosive traps in public places, he’s more able than McGuyver. Wife got knocked up by husband’s own father, yet husband and ex-husband still come around to help get her to a better life. The casino is a joke, anyone can come and go. As the story unravels, the character developments and actions become unjustifiable. Daughter found out father faked his own death, but didn’t think to for a moment to inform any immediate family members, then went to burn down family’s own business over … nothing. And of course, being the daughter of the business, no one in a huge casino resort would stop her from walking around with two tanks of gasoline, and lighting a match isn’t enough to set flame to an accelerant, it has to be all the matches in the box. You’d be like… wut hud huppin? Ok, that’s my literal moment of retardation. So if you’re stuck home due to COVID and can’t find anything else better to burn time with, ok, watch this series.

!SPOILER! Lives don't matter. So you'd get $38M after you murder the other 485 players who are in huge debts. The ending killed it all, no pun intended. Suddenly, after having eliminated the other 484 players - directly or indirectly - people come to their senses and be like, "damn, you're my friend. let's not do this. let's love one another." and still be in their own huge debts, to be facing jail time. The other 484 lives didn't matter and they died for $0, when one more could have meant $38M, which would validate why the other 484 had to die and in a way helps justify their deaths. Completely stupid and a waste of time. Not sure why all the high ratings. Seems like violence, murder, and blood & gore are trending really well yet we keep asking, why the violence irl? Because most of the world enjoy it, maybe?

Story line is confusing and provides cheap thrills for those whom I feel are the demented via blood and gore. Just another series to show how people enjoy seeing violence in the aftermath of Squid Game (which I feel was a waste of time). Not to segue, but what was the purpose of all the insanity in that series? Trivializing lives over money? If you're really into how technology and spirituality being out of sync, watch Black Mirror. I hope the Koreans would stop coming out with these dark series where blood and gore play the centerpiece to desensitize us to violence itself. Cuz every 'hit' is a blood and gore one. Alice in Borderland is along this level of gore, but you'd feel a sense of powerlessness and hopelessness when you must choose between your own life vs others - there is humanity, self-sacrificing & selflessness there. Squid Game is trash and so is Hellbound, imho.