Round 6

The VIPs once again are execreble actors. The gravitas and emotion of the show are turned farcical as soon as these rejects from every grade 7 play start talking. Even their gestures are cringe worthy. Non English speaking directors can not distinguish bad acting from good in foreign actors. Test this theory on any film made anywhere at any time in a non English speaking country, which contains an "American" in it. Japanese flicks are notorious for this, even Kurosawa. Break out the ham. I can imagine the ads run in Seoul papers: "Foreign English speaking actors needed." And since last time I checked Seoul isn't L. A., the pool of trained, good, professional actors must run at about ZERO candidates. Show is great otherwise: The contrast between the quality of acting in these cheesy foreigners and the Korean cast couldn't be more obvious. LA London Toronto and Vancouver have loads of actors serving table who would be great. Think about it guys.

I think it's really good show but the VIP acting is horrible. Seems rushed and no quality.

Slowness to find Truth on the boat team.

Very rushed acting and quality. Looks like Ai is playing big part of it.

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Would rate first season as 9/10, second and third - 5 or 6 max. Doesn't worth watching after first, it's nothing like first season, completely pointless things and undeveloped plot and characters, supposedly just to earn more money from a famous tv show.

Flat characters and not logical character decisions, even games from squid games slowly disappeared to be pure killing and betrayal.

With all that depth and idea that first season had, was touching, interesting, when you deeply cared about characters, somehow they did typical low budget show when you are tired already being disappointed of obvious bad, stupid character decisions that couldn't take place. Flat characters was biggest disappointment and made feeling of wasted time.

My God the actors who potrayed the VIP people cannot act. I cringed everytime they said a line. It felt like they were just reading them. Even the intonation was off. It was like when we were kids and had to read a play in class and we exagerated the intonation. Terrible, just awful.

Just watched whole 9 episodes and my favorite was the 6th, Gganbu. Not perfect nor a masterpiece, but this is very well made and provides a certain level of emotional experience. The overall show was far beyond things that were shown in trailer. Very well directed, performed, and finding its own unique points from the genre mixture of various references such as Gambling Apocalypse : Kaiji, Battle Royale, and so on. Just hope all others enjoy this show not only in Korea but also everywhere!

Ps. Even to Korean ears, VIPs' English conversations were not well written nor performed. I think the drama could stand well enough without their presence and save the budget.