The Frog review: Pitch-black South Korean show is a messy pastiche of serial killer thrillers
7 months ago

The Frog review: Pitch-black South Korean show is a messy pastiche of serial killer thrillers

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “We’re playing a big game of tag,” decrees a jaded police officer, in new Netflix drama The Frog. The Frog is a messy pastiche of serial killer thrillers, drawing more heavily from American cinema, particularly the canon of David Fincher, than its contemporaries from the Korean peninsula. “Perhaps what I’m imagining is utterly ridiculous,” muses Jeon, as the full extent of the madness becomes apparent – it’s a rumination that, sadly, invites baffled assent. In the pantheon of great female villains – Misery’s Annie Wilkes, Gone Girl’s Amy Elliott Dunne, Killing Eve’s Villanelle – The Frog’s contribution feels tame and derivative.

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'Squid Game' season 2 heads back into the arena : Pop Culture Happy Hour
2 months, 3 weeks ago

'Squid Game' season 2 heads back into the arena : Pop Culture Happy Hour

NPR  

'Squid Game' season 2 heads back into the arena : Pop Culture Happy Hour The Korean drama Squid Game became the most popular offering in Netflix's history by combining pitch-black satire of late-stage capitalism with bloody violence. In Season 2, Gi-hun winds up sucked back into the games, where he must fight for his life, try to destroy the system …

Squid Game season 2 Twitter reviews: Gong Yoo's acting skills are ‘insane’, say fans of the ‘engaging’ series
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Squid Game season 2 Twitter reviews: Gong Yoo's acting skills are ‘insane’, say fans of the ‘engaging’ series

Hindustan Times  

Squid Game season 2 Twitter reviews: The latest season of the South Korean dystopian survival thriller Squid Game dropped on Netflix this Christmas. Squid Game season 2 Twitter review One fan believed that Squid Game’s new season was better than the previous one, writing, “Squid Game season 2 took everything we loved about the first and made it even more …

Review: ‘Squid Game’ is back for Season 2, and Player 456 is on a crusade to end it
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Review: ‘Squid Game’ is back for Season 2, and Player 456 is on a crusade to end it

LA Times  

You may ask yourself, “Did the world need a ‘Squid Game 2?’” Hwang Dong-hyuk, who wrote and directed 2021‘s “Squid Game,” didn’t think so originally, having devised the Korean Netflix series as a single-season stand-alone. Nor would you question the rationale behind last fall’s “Squid Game: The Challenge,” a U.K.-produced reality competition — also on Netflix — which may now …

Real-life violence that inspired South Korea's 'Squid Game'
3 months ago

Real-life violence that inspired South Korea's 'Squid Game'

New Indian Express  

SEOUL: A factory turned into a battlefield, riot police armed with tasers and an activist who spent 100 days atop a chimney, the unrest that inspired Netflix's most successful show ever has all the hallmarks of a TV drama. This month sees the release of the second season of Squid Game, a dystopian vision of South Korea where desperate people …

‘Squid Game’ returns looking for win with season 2
Top News
3 months ago

‘Squid Game’ returns looking for win with season 2

Associated Press  

Stepping onto the set of “Squid Game” season two, Lee Jong-jae felt like he had never left. Lee says when Netflix ordered a second season of “Squid Game,” he questioned the timeline because it took Hwang years to work on the first one. “I wondered, ‘How many years will it take him to write season two,’” said Lee. “There’s a …

Is this the next Squid Game? Gruesome Korean thriller Bargain about organ harvesting and a bloody battle for survival is being compared to Netflix's smash hit
1 year, 5 months ago

Is this the next Squid Game? Gruesome Korean thriller Bargain about organ harvesting and a bloody battle for survival is being compared to Netflix's smash hit

Daily Mail  

A gruesome Korean drama about the dark world of organ harvesting has been dubbed the next Squid Game by fans. Bargain, the gruesome Korean drama streaming on Paramount+, is being hailed a 'new Squid Game' as characters battle for survival The dark series is a reimagined version of a 2015 short film which won several awards at the Mise-en-scène Short …

Nobody wanted to make ‘Squid Game.’ Now it’s making history
2 years, 7 months ago

Nobody wanted to make ‘Squid Game.’ Now it’s making history

LA Times  

I thought it was impossible to make the show and now we have 14 nominations. I think this is the finale of us celebrating Season 1 of ‘Squid Game.’ ” Lee Jung-Jae plays the main character “Gi-hun” The likable antihero Part of that celebration of the series’ first season took place at Netflix’s FYSee space on L.A.’s Melrose Avenue a …

What did these ‘Squid Game’ stars love most about the series?
3 years, 3 months ago

What did these ‘Squid Game’ stars love most about the series?

LA Times  

Lee Jung-jae, the star of Netflix’s biggest hit ever — the South Korean limited series “Squid Game,” in which financially desperate contestants such as his divorced-dad character Gi-hun risk their lives for money by playing childhood games — says he could tell when filming the first episode that the show, which may return for a second season given its popularity, …

Squid Game and Parasite aren't just massive South Korean crossovers, but also biting critiques of inequity
3 years, 5 months ago

Squid Game and Parasite aren't just massive South Korean crossovers, but also biting critiques of inequity

Firstpost  

Money and power run the world we live in today, and people – like the characters in Parasite and Squid Game – are being driven to a point where they will do anything in their capacity to gain and maintain financial security. While accepting one of the many, many awards the film Parasite won, South Korean director Bong Joon-ho asked …

‘Squid Game’ strikes nerve in debt-ridden South Korea
3 years, 5 months ago

‘Squid Game’ strikes nerve in debt-ridden South Korea

Associated Press  

SEOUL, South Korea — “Squid Game,” a brutal Netflix survival drama about desperate adults competing in deadly children’s games for a chance to escape severe debt, hit a little too close to home for Lee Chang-keun. “In ‘Squid Game,’ you see characters scrambling to survive after being laid off at work, struggling to operate fried chicken diners or working as …

Squid Game: Netflix Slammed by Korean Speakers For 'Botching' English Subtitles
3 years, 5 months ago

Squid Game: Netflix Slammed by Korean Speakers For 'Botching' English Subtitles

News 18  

The massively popular survivalist Korean-drama Squid Game is all everyone is talking about since its release on September 17. She began her tweet with, ““Not to sound snobby but I’m fluent in Korean and I watched squid game with English subtitles and if you don’t understand Korean you didn’t really watch the same show. translation is extremely important.” Read: Squid …

Squid Game review: Why the biggest show today is one of the weirdest
3 years, 5 months ago

Squid Game review: Why the biggest show today is one of the weirdest

Live Mint  

In the middle of Netflix sensation Squid Game — where people put their lives on the line to play children’s games — there is a discussion about “the weakest link.” Variously called “kachhi-mitti” in North India or “kachha-limboo” in Western India, this is described as “a beautiful rule kids used to keep so that the weakest kid wouldn’t feel like …

Squid Game and the rise of the ‘deadly game’ TV show
3 years, 5 months ago

Squid Game and the rise of the ‘deadly game’ TV show

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Squid Game is the first South Korean series to …

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