Squid Games Episode 6
Added 2024-06-07 17:21:55 +0000 UTCComments
i love this episode, it has so many great moments, but my favourite to this day is the moment when 001 confronts our main guy about his cheating. he confronted him with a reality that he is in fact capable of scamming poor, sickly, weak old person. just like he used/scammed his mom "in the real world". the look on Gihun's face is priceless: "oh shit, i really am a bad person, arent i?"
morela
2024-10-03 18:14:10 +0000 UTCI don’t think there’s a crueler television episode in all of TV history 😭 the writer really said let’s make them anxious for 45 mins and then have them cry for the next 15 mins straight 😭😭😭😩😩
Ahjusshi_Brown
2024-06-11 00:12:30 +0000 UTCOooh, that makes sense!! Thanks for the reply
Honey
2024-06-10 19:48:24 +0000 UTCHe’s done lots of stats classes!
Wes And Steph
2024-06-10 19:28:52 +0000 UTCAwww 😂
Wes And Steph
2024-06-10 19:27:01 +0000 UTC😳😳😳😳 and you are so right I’m just scared now
Wes And Steph
2024-06-10 19:26:42 +0000 UTCi think the reason the two girls talked was BECAUSE they wanted to get ready to die, i think they were talking because it meant they could say anything theyd want to have said before dying, and no matter what you didnt have to worry about how people felt about what you had to say because when the game ends you die or they do and cant tell anyone
Aphelion Audio
2024-06-09 11:31:55 +0000 UTCI remember when I was in Bangladesh growing up, we’d show off our marble collections and trade. And play games. Sometimes we’d wage marbles. Stakes were never this high tho
Md Sheam Bin Sayhid
2024-06-09 00:33:20 +0000 UTCI remember the first time i watched this episode i was bawling. So you guys did better than i did. As hard as it is to watch, it is such a great episode. So well done and the actors did amazing!
Venita Morse
2024-06-08 21:23:12 +0000 UTCthis episode is tough. No matter how many times i watch it i cry every time You need to watch something funny to recover from this I think what happened to Ali hit way harder because of the relationship they have built between Ali and Sang Woo throughout the episodes. Like it is said he is the best friend of the main character however Sang Woo doesn't show much closeness to him. However Sang Woo was much more closer to Ali and talk to him most in here.
Mimosa Khaund
2024-06-08 05:49:52 +0000 UTCThis was too emotional to watch before bed. Gonna have to go watch one of your run BTS reactions to lighten the mood or else I’ll have nightmares lol.
Nora
2024-06-08 04:51:58 +0000 UTCThis is the episode steph stopped saying 'I wanna watch the next episode or we have to wait for next episode?" :) Was really looking forward to this. Still makes me cry! Can't wait for what's in store for S2. Steph, Ju-ri from "its Ok to not be ok" I believe will be in squid game S2!
A!
2024-06-08 03:59:01 +0000 UTCI'm always tickled when reactors find Head Goon so unlikeable, because the actor that plays him (despite being typecast as rough and serious) is a brilliant and sweet mama's boy that lives to hang out with his cats and collect cute plushies
Ace
2024-06-08 02:45:12 +0000 UTCsteph was like "he is going to take his marbles" and proceeds to turn in an epic way hahaha
Daniela Miño
2024-06-08 02:38:32 +0000 UTCSo.. I'm already sad because someone I respected a lot died and yet I still watched this knowing what was gonna happen.. why I do this? 😭 but I've always liked ji-yeon.. I identified with her quite a bit and I was so destroyed seeing her go out like that. Not to mention Ali!~ he was my boy~ 🥺💔 I don't understand.. the dudely dude that went to SNU or whatever.. he was going to kill himself. He's wanted for embezzling or whatever, his mom owns her own shop.. it disgusts me that he knew Ali had a baby and wife in a climate where he is risking his life because they can't support themselves, meanwhile he was going to go to prison or kill himself anyway, yet he still betrays Ali.. smh
Chels
2024-06-08 01:46:12 +0000 UTCIt’s alright guys, this is one of your best reactions ever. I was with you guys as well. I was feeling very upset for the old man and Ali. I also hope the man’s child hood friend dies. For player 240, I was bawling my eyes out, I felt so sad for her, and she was so beautiful.❤️❤️❤️😭😭😭
Samia Anderson
2024-06-08 00:29:59 +0000 UTCSangwoo might not be evil from a survival point of view but he still irritated my soul to no end. Everything he does seems soooo calculated. Even when he helped Ali, it almost feels like he did that because he saw some value in him(strength). I still think he didn't help the mc in the dalgona game because he didn't think he would be of use to him
Honey
2024-06-07 23:44:52 +0000 UTCWe definitely do have a "respect" culture here in Nigeria. There are also honorifics in some of the languages here . Also, I wonder if Wes is a data scientist? He uses certain terms at times that makes me think of that
Honey
2024-06-07 23:42:31 +0000 UTCbut my thing is all sangwoo did was give him bus money and let him use his phone. I understand being from another country, that was nice and you wouldn’t expect that from a stranger. but ali standing up to his supervisor showed me he wasn’t a pushover and can use context clues. he kinda stood up for himself when he told sangwoo “I have a family too” but it went out the window when he suddenly forgot what kind of game they was playing and was willing to even let sangwoo touch the marbles. wes kinda gave me some clarification about the type of scam sangwoo was using by saying a bunch of information in order to confuse ali so ali would just put blind faith in him; bc I didn’t consider when I first watched. idk it’s still hard for me to accept he went down that easily 😭
Charmaine
2024-06-07 23:41:48 +0000 UTCYou know given the fact that the supervisor had been scamming him for 6 months before that, it makes sense. Also, he seems to respect sangwoo/ see him as smarter so it makes sense. Still frustrated me though
Honey
2024-06-07 23:34:48 +0000 UTCYou are so eloquent, I like your points.
Hanan Haliru
2024-06-07 23:33:16 +0000 UTCno matter how many times i watch this episode i always get mad at the fact the writers wrote ali being able to see when his supervisor was scamming him and his coworkers and was never planning to pay them but ali wasn’t able to see through sangwoo’s lies. they joined a game where multiple people lost their lives first day before they even knew their lives were on the line so why did ali believe they wouldn’t kill both players if they didn’t finish a game??? every time I see that scene I get more upset 😭
Charmaine
2024-06-07 21:40:01 +0000 UTCI mean, obviously, the ethical dilemmas posed by this show are part of why people love it. This episode presents a lot of them, for sure. I actually got my BA in moral philosophy (and I pursued that because I was raised Christian but when I stopped believing in god (or gods), I had no conception of where my morality was couched and I wanted to understand morality in a secular context) so I appreciated your conversations during this episode. I think the internet wore itself out having conversations about each pair. Ultimately, I think you can make really strong defenses and condemnations for everyone's actions and I think where people land largely has to do with who they like or whose life they value more. For me, I like Ali a lot and I feel bad for the old man, but I didn't have a big moral issue with what either Sang Woo or the main guy did to win their marbles and their lives. Maybe neither were shining examples of "doing the right thing" but there are two factors that I think make "doing the right thing" more ambiguous and less relevant in this case. For 1, this is a game. Not the games of marbles, but the Squid Game. And the Squid Game has rules that they all agreed to when they showed up. Most of them will die brutally by playing children's games and the only object of the game is to survive to claim the money even at the cost of other players. Sang Woo and the main guy played within the rules. They outsmarted their opponents with their own guile and skills (superior memory and mental acuity, wits, emotional intelligence, acting, ruthlessness, etc.) and they won. They didn't cheat, they played by the rules and came out on top. Criticizing them for not "doing the right thing" in that context feels childish because you'd never accuse a person of acting immorally for doubling down on a Draw +2 in Uno or sending someone's game piece back to the start in Sorry or voting out an ally in Survivor. So, in the context of a game where everyone playing understands that the goal is survival by any means necessary, I think taking advantage of their opponents' weakness was fair. Not kind, not wholesome, not morally /good/...but certainly not immoral or evil. And 2, I think you have to give people all the leeway in the world when it comes to their desire to survive. Like if the stakes are your LIFE, I have a really hard time condemning someone for doing whatever they have to to survive. Maybe there's a theoretical argument that, when deciding who lives or dies, you should consider things like dependents, potential contribution to humanity, quality of life, age and ability, etc, but, in practice, I don't think we get to make value determinations about people's relative right to live. (And with regard to the "dependents" issue specifically, I don't think that counts for much in this case anyway. Everyone entered the Squid Game knowing they had a slim chance of living anyway and knowing their families wouldn't know if they died or abandoned them either--so for them to get to claim they have people counting on them now, when it gives them credibility and more of a "right" to live than their opponents, seems rich and hypocritical. Like they throw their life away to the game without regard for their family but then they get to use that family to give themselves a protective edge in games? Like they're a shield that automatically means they should get priority over players with nothing and no one? That feels like emotional manipulation (which, as to point 1, is fine for a game and if someone wants to exploit that more power to them, but kind of undercuts this idea that other people should willingly sacrifice themselves for them). Anyway, to my main point, I think if a person wants to live, we can't condemn them as "morally bad" when their life is at risk and they're trying to survive. I'd like to think that bystanders would jump into a lake to save a drowning child even if they aren't great swimmers and that people would undergo surgery to donate a life-saving organ to a loved one even with potential medical complications, and that if I was on a crashing airplane someone would give away their last parachute to help me off the plane...and I'd like to think I would do that, too. But if they didn't--because they didn't want to drown or die on the table or crash in the plane--I'd find that rational and fair. The human will to live is so strong and who am I to condemn someone for wanting to live? So, I wish Ali and the old man had made it through the game. But I don't blame Sang Woo and the main guy for manipulating their partners to survive. I'm comfortable morally with how they got through it. I don't think either of them "did the right thing," but I don't think what they did was morally bad either. I certainly don't think either of them are proud of it or enjoyed it.
SNBangtan
2024-06-07 21:25:07 +0000 UTCRespect for elderly people is something you will see in most Asian cultures but Korea definitely has one of the stronger hierarchy culture. It's not something you will see in most of Europe either. Japan is very similar to Korea but a bit less strict with age and more with superiority/seniority. the honorifics and formal and informal speech apply more to someone superior/senior or significantly older than you in Japan while in Korea age is more significant if someone is one year older then you have to use formal speech and honorifics.
ly1111
2024-06-07 20:06:02 +0000 UTCGuys dont worry. When I first watched this episode I was crying out of anger
Rinakin
2024-06-07 19:54:15 +0000 UTCGuys please keep spoilers to yourself! If you are wondering whether something is a spoiler or not just don’t say anything.
Catie C
2024-06-07 19:37:02 +0000 UTCY’all I couldn’t wait to see how y’all would react to this episode. Your reactions are actually on the tamer end compared to other reactors. I’ve watched grown men and women break down and sob over this episode - I did, too. I love the godly perspective you guys consider when looking at the moral dilemmas in this show. I agree that being upfront to the old man would be the biblical choice. In a Christian worldview, I think I would just have to trust God would take care of my family if I don’t make it because I obeyed him.
Whammadoodoo
2024-06-07 19:11:42 +0000 UTCBest reaction ever !!!!
Mich Sm
2024-06-07 19:10:28 +0000 UTCWes and Steph. It’s ok. This episode destroyed all of us.
Helen l
2024-06-07 18:57:02 +0000 UTCyou guys are too smart lol. this was def a rough one. PS the last girl standing(the annoying one) when they were picking partners, once the realization hit of not having found a partner in time, that first guy she grabbed to beg to be her partner...he was in attorney woo, in the episode with the 3 brothers splitting up their family land...he was the middle brother. Youll see him again in a later episode as well.
Dancemish
2024-06-07 18:53:07 +0000 UTCthis episode scarred me emotionally but i'll watch it again because of you guys🙂
nylecoj
2024-06-07 18:50:48 +0000 UTCyou guys are honestly on top of your game in this show!!
Lela
2024-06-07 17:53:04 +0000 UTCGod I really cried hard again watching this
QuanArt
2024-06-07 17:50:03 +0000 UTCI wouldn't say in Germany we have a higher regard for elderly people. There is a formal way of adressing someone in German and you would always use it for a stranger who is oviously older than you and of course if there is a more frail person most people would give up their seats on a bus/train etc. for them but we don't have a general culture of respect and almost worship for older people and think they're always right and need to be obeyed for being older haha You still have to earn respect no matter your age haha
Lela
2024-06-07 17:39:20 +0000 UTCsigh...preparing to cry again
Lela
2024-06-07 17:31:54 +0000 UTCI really hope the comment didn't spoil yall😅
QuanArt
2024-06-07 17:30:10 +0000 UTCAs someone that lives in England (London), I can say that british people don’t really hold the elderly in a higher regard compared to other cultures. I think that’s partly to do with the fact that England really doesn’t have much of a culture and it’s mostly just other cultures all coexisting with each other. To be fair though, London is a bit different to the rest of England so I may be wrong but that’s just what I’ve noticed. It seems like French people care a lot about the elderly just from going there a few times (mainly the rural parts).
WRam
2024-06-07 17:30:08 +0000 UTC
