![]() ![]() ![]() Something similar happens in “Goodbye.” Once again, nobody dies in this reality show, obviously, but the players find themselves in a situation where they are directly responsible for ending someone else’s chance at life-changing money. That pushes them to fully buy into their endgames if they weren’t already bought in. The pain is the pleasure and perhaps the point: When the surviving characters emerge from the artificial village, they do so having been directly responsible for the death of another person. The sequence is textbook K-drama stuff, with the show using the scenario to twist the dramatic knife and extract a particular feeling of tragi-melancholy the genre specializes in. (That happens in episode six, “ Gganbu,” in case you’re wondering.) This made sense to me. This recap covers episodes six, seven, and eight, “Goodbye,” “Friend and Foe,” and “One Step Closer.”īack when Squid Game came out, it was the marble game that people tended to bring up when talking about the show at the time. ![]()
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