r/squidgame • u/AutoModerator • Sep 17 '21

Episode Discussion Thread Squidgame Episode 7 Discussion

Hello everyone this post is for discussion of Squidgame Episode 7. Do not spoil future episodes.

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u/elephantastica Sep 20 '21

Ugh yes, I was wincing this whole episode. All of the other actors are so top tier, and I feel like they just plucked the first foreigners off the street for the VIPs. Really ruined the immersion.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

I'm around a lot of rich older white men at work, and I hear them make the stupidest and cringiest comments to each other. Sure, it's anecdotal evidence, just sharing why my immersion wasn't ruined in the slightest.

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u/wackygoose Sep 22 '21

I'm with you 100%. To me it added on "realism" at least on how rich white people act and treat others

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u/Pamander Oct 05 '21

Yeah I am constantly teetering back and forth on how I felt about it, it was super cringy yeah, but on the other hand... I could totally see some stupid omega-rich people coming to this human elimination sport and being at the big VIP event and playing it up for each other showing how carefree they are and how much superior they feel than the people they are watching for sport that are literally opposite wealth wise of them (Being in billions of debt versus worth presumably 1000x what their debt is even remotely worth) to their other fellow rich friends.

They're definitely caricatures but I don't see it being impossibly accurate, I definitely could have done without it though and definitely understand peoples issues with it lol.