Episodes
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A Parasite movie review from Jack, Colin and special guest Hugh McStay.
Hugh writes for The London Horror Society and brings some brilliant insight on to our first ever movie review. The Oscar-winning movie ranks highly on both Colin and Shuggie's list of top films of all time, while Jack wasn't blown away on first time viewing. Tune in to hear why 2/3rds of the guys rank it so highly.
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMillan
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Episode nine of Squid Game is “One Lucky Day”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they finally deep dive into the ninth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories.
“When we were kids, we would play just like this, and our moms would call us in for dinner. But no one calls us anymore.”
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode eight of Squid Game is “Front Man”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the eighth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time.
They want to hear more of your questions, queries and theories - along with your hopes for season two, so please get in touch!
The shortest episode of Squid Game by some way, but the show’s eighth instalment, “Front Man,” is full of deaths that matter. With only one episode to go, perhaps that was to be expected?
Every remaining death means something, because every remaining character is a major one. There’s no escaping the pain that comes with the deaths.
Jack and Colin discuss Jun-ho's island adventure, one of the best reveal's in TV history and Gi-hun, Sang-woo and Sae-byeok's final meal - alongside some murder.
Jack cries again.
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode seven of Squid Game is “VIPS”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the seventh episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories.
VIPs overall purpose: an introduction to the horrible, wealthy men this organized homicidal tournament is meant to entertain.
The Front Man juggles searching for Jun-ho and greeting the VIPs while the players get one potato for their dinner today.
Sang-woo starts to reveals a certain logical brutality and becomes the ultimate heel after the last six episodes have been leading to this.
The fifth game involves a glass stepping-stone bridge and is the first solo game since the honeycomb candy. The circus setting is different again but highlights how much of a game and how much fun these VIPs find these games – also, it is somewhere you only go as a child, or with children.
VIPs is a clear try at satire - does it work? You better listen to hear Jack and Colin's thoughts.
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode six of Squid Game is “Gganbu”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the sixth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories.
Squid Game has largely eschewed tugging on the heartstrings - until now…
Apart from a short scene in which Jun-ho overhears the Front Man taking a telephone call about the arrival of the games’ VIPs, the action is focused on the players and their next game - marbles.
Player 101 vs Player 278:
Player 101 winds up winning after petitioning his guard to change the game they’d been playing (and at which he’d been losing badly).
Player 067 vs Player 240:
Neither Sae-byeok nor her partner 240 know how to play marbles - 240 dismisses the game as the province of “boomers”.
Player 218 vs Player 199:
Sang-woo and Ali begin by guessing whether their opponent is holding either an even or odd number of marbles in his hand. Sang-woo gets mad when Ali takes a big lead, accusing him of cheating, then begging for his life, and finally devising an alternate plan.
Player 456 vs Player 001:
Gi-hun and Player 001 also play the guessing game, though it takes some doing to get there, as the dementia-addled old man believes the fake street to be the street where he grew up.
One of the best things about Squid Game is that, for all its brutality, it does not seem to share the games’ sadism itself. The scenarios are awful to contemplate, but the awfulness is the point.
Creator Hwang Dong-hyuk values the interpersonal connections he’s creating, even as he destroys them. It’s an exploration of violence, not an exploitation of violence.
Dong-hyuk makes sure that when he kills people you care about, you know their names.
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode five of Squid Game is “A Fair World”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the fifth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories.
**Sorry we're late - Jack forgot to upload the file**
Back in the main room, Gi-hun notices there’s something wrong with 001 and realizes that he has a fever. He helps the old man lie down, and Sae-byeok gives him a bottle of water to help lower the fever.
Jack and Colin discuss some more of their favourite things - synchronisation and numerology - as well as trying to figure out the Front Man's timeline and how long the Squid Games have been going - it's at least 35 years by all accounts!
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode five of Squid Game is “A Fair World”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the fifth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories.
At the control room, a square guard watches as the doctor and a triangle guard move through the colourful maze of staircases, Just like last time he erases the footage afterwards.
Jack and Colin discuss the theme of luck (or bad luck) again, alongside more brilliant and key backstory building - everyone has a story and grey areas from their past. Gi-hun uses some mind tricks to get the upper hand over Player 101 and they work to perfection!
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode five of Squid Game is “A Fair World”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the fifth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories.
Squid Game episode 4 ended with a big cliff-hanger, episode 5 begins with people falling off that cliff. Sang-woo comes up with a last-minute plan and his team wins the tug of war. Somehow he convinced everyone to take three steps forward to force the other team to the ground.
Jack and Colin discuss the use of silence to create atmosphere and also add to the realisation of what the players have just had to do during the tug of war. Again, the use of colours are key (BLACKPINK) and there are some nods and references to Hollywood films e.g. The Matrix.
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode four of Squid Game is “Stick to the Team”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the fourth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories.
Before the third full game begins, the players are told that they will be playing as a team. They have ten minutes to split into groups of ten. Between Gi-hun, Sang-woo, Ali, Sae-byeok, and Player 001, they still need five more people.
Jack and Colin discuss Ali’s gesture (it is, of course, lovely), the impact of being forced to kill another human and how alien that is for nearly everyone still involved in the Squid Game. There are more subtle details during the tug of war game that the guys notice and they share their thoughts on the episode’s cliff-hanger.
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode four of Squid Game is “Stick to the Team”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the fourth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories.
In the hidden room where the guard led Player 111, Player 111, a doctor, is secretly harvesting organs for a group of corrupt guards in exchange for information about the games and Jun-ho has changed into a square mask.
There are lots more deaths and Jack and Colin discuss...more numerology. Absolute chaos breaks out as the lights go off and there is one of the most visceral scenes the guys have witnessed on TV that may or may not have caused some issue for people with epilepsy. Player 001 also shows himself to be quite the climber.
A Glasgower production
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMillan
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode four of Squid Game is “Stick to the Team”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the fourth episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories.
Episode 4 picks up right where the previous episode left off at the end of the honeycomb game. Player 111 (the doctor - Yoo Sung-joo) is led by one of the guards down to a secret area as another guard in the control room sneakily deletes the CCTV footage.
Out of the 189 players that were left before the game, 79 were eliminated - so Jack takes a look at the numbers again. There is also a death (murder) that chages the direction and thought process of some of the players… is this what The Front Man wanted… you bet!
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode three of Squid Game is “The Man with the Umbrella”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the third episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. This episode is the shortest of the series and our episodes mirror this this week...
Seong Ji-hun chose the umbrella because his mother chastised him for losing one when he was young… Jack and Colin discuss if this was the best pick and if other players (with their unfair advantages) are starting to really show their true colours during the honeycomb Squid Game.
The cinematography is again highlighted - the editing is tight and creates some proper suspense alongside the use of music giving the yin and yang theme an extra kick in parts of this episode. Are there really proper rules during the Squid Game - or is it the case that if a player can find a loophole (like using a lighter)m then they are free to exploit it?
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode three of Squid Game is “The Man with the Umbrella”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the third episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. This episode is the shortest of the series and our episodes mirror this this week...
The players start to find teams. Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) gets Cho Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo), Ali Abdul (Anupam Tripathi), and Oh II-nam (O Yeong-su) to join forces in the Squid Game. Jack and Colin discuss some more about morality and grey areas in life and how this affects the player;s choices.
Han Mi-nyeo (Kim Joo-ryoung), the episode’s best character (in Jack’s opinion), thinks that partnering with Jang Deok-su (Heo Sung-tae) and his crew will be good for her… Will her plan work? Another takeaway from the third episode is that everyone is watching everyone!
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode three of Squid Game is “The Man with the Umbrella”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the third episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories. This episode is the shortest of the series and our episodes mirror this this week...
The Man with the Umbrella picks up with the players returning to the game as the camera scrolls over a cavalcade of Hyundai people carriers. Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon) finds his way onto a people carrier. Jack and Colin discuss this unique story-telling method as a way of seeing behind the scenes of the Squid Game.
Kang Sae-byeok (Jung Ho-yeon) has managed to get a knife into the game (she is a proper Squid Game player). The Player 456 guys look at some more numerology and the idea of having nothing left to lose.
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode two of Squid Game is “Hell”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the second episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories.
As fate has it, Gi-hun runs into Player 101 (Il-Nam) and Jack and Colin discuss his role here - as a method of vocalising and reiterating the themes of the show so far. Further backstories are revealed and Jang Deok-su’s (101) gangster life-style leads to the most graphic scene in Squid Game so far (even after the death of 255 people).
Letting the players leave the game and experience their real lives is a fantastic way to show more character growth — and shows that Squid Game is a proper drama with an amazing narrative arc.
Gi-hun’s further character growth is also discussed by the guys as he hits new lows after the news of his mother’s ill health. As the episode wraps, there are few of the characters that appear to be thinking ahead more than others.
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode two of Squid Game is “Hell”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the second episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories.
All the players have been deposited back to their normal lives, with some dropped off in pairs (coincidence - we think not). Jack and Colin, again, look at some of the clearest foreshadowing so far from Hwang Dong-hyuk and discuss the theme of “Hell” in more detail.
Compared to English, the Korean language has a different and quite complex system to refer to one another and this is clear with Sang-woo and Ali’s interactions in this episode.
We are briefly introduced to Hwang Jun-ho, who has his own, personal reasons for wanting to ‘enter’ the Squid Game world while further themes such as desperation and suicide are discussed, and the social commentary about capitalism is again clear to see.
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode two of Squid Game is “Hell”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the second episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories.
The episode opens directly after the events of “Red Light, Green Light” with Jack and Colin offering their insight into Korean funeral coffin rights, with a nod to the Korean girl band: BLACKPINK. Clause three of the Squid Game contract is indicted by Sang-Woo and a democratic vote is held - with some surprising outcomes.
Squid Game lends itself pretty handily as a metaphor for capitalism and the inequalities and dangers of the model, as well as for class struggles.
We also meet some new characters, including Han Mi-nyeo (212) and the guys discuss further fantastic direction from Hwang Dong-hyuk, the morality of the players and how much their situations impact on their ethical choices when making the decision to play or go home.
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode one of Squid Game is “Red Light, Green Light”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the first episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories.
The game eventually gets underway under the careful watch of a giant robotic doll. If players are caught moving, they are “eliminated”. Jack and Colin chat about the use of the ticking clock as a character, how Hwang Dong-hyuk manages to use this common TV trope without it being clichéd, and the clever use of numerology as a script writing aid.
We meet more of Squid Game’s participants: Cho Sang-woo (218), Kang Sae-byeok (067), Jang Deok-su (101) and Abdul Ali (199). The guys offer their favourite character choices, their take on why this is not just another “lethal game show competition” and also discuss the theory that the show may be the best example of Game Theory’s “zero-sum game”.
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode one of Squid Game is “Red Light, Green Light”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the first episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories.
There is a massive turning point for Seong Gi-hun and the themes of love and desperation are again hit home in the first 20 minutes of this episode. Jack and Colin discuss the soundtrack, especially the use of classical music, to create and highlight another key concept in the show: duality. They also consider Hwang Dong-hyuk’s use of synchronisation, the issue of non-rational thinking and give the rundown on the squares, triangles and circles.
We are also introduced to some of the other characters that are going to be key during Squid Game, including The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) and Player 001 (O Yeong-su). There are also nods to Star Wars, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and M. C. Escher’s Relativity.
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
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Episode one of Squid Game is “Red Light, Green Light”. Join Player 456’s hosts Jack and Colin as they deep dive into the first episode of Netflix’s most popular show of all time. They offer their insight, thoughts and appreciation, and also cover your questions, queries and theories.
Watchers are introduced to Seong Gi-hun (played by Lee Jung-jae) - a down on his luck, degenerate gambler but all round decent guy. Jack and Colin discuss the brilliant character building techniques used to quickly get the audience on side with the main protagonist. They also speak about the foreshadowing that is so well used, but can go unnoticed, alongside some of the fantastic direction from Hwang Dong-hyuk.
The themes of love, luck and desperation are key in Red Light, Green Light and the guys try and think about what life might have looked like for Gi-hun prior to entering the Squid Game.
An original production from Glasgower
Produced by Jack Shaw and Colin McMilan
Twitter: @player456pod
Email: [email protected]
Jack and Colin also host Wrong Term Memory - a weekly podcast with episodes out every Monday.
