Too Scary; Didn't Watch - Bonus Episode: SQUID GAME - PART ONE

Episode Date: October 29, 2021

Our very first TV show recap! In this bonus episode we will be recapping episodes 1 through 4 of the most popular Netflix show of all time?? Listen to find out what all the fuss is about.To listen to the full episode join us in Toni F*cking Collette's Inner Circle on Patreon.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is Emily, Henley, and Sammy, and you're listening to Too Scary, Didn't Watch. Hi everyone, welcome to Too Scary, Didn't Watch, bonus episode for October number two. Ooh yeah, baby. Ooh yeah.. Ooh, yeah, baby. Ooh. Oh, yeah. Spooky, spooky, spooky. Every episode's spooky when you're listening to Too Scary to Watch. Welcome to Too Scary to Watch, where every

episode is spooky. But they're a little extra spooky in October. Speaking of spooky, it just started to rain. So you might be hearing that hit my air conditioner in the background a little bit. Hell yeah. I have gotten actually Emily inspired by you. I've gotten very into putting on like cozy rain background music on my TV throughout the day.

Yes. Yes. It's very good to do. It's very good to do. And there are a lot of options on YouTube. There are so many. I really got into, you guys know this around Christmas time, putting on, yeah, like holiday ambiance, ASMR, like YouTube videos. And usually if I sit on my couch in the evening to read, I'll put one on. Oh, that feels good. But like a rainy cafe or like Gryffindor common room or just like sound. For example, I might have done that.

Just might have done that. They might like exclusively be Harry Potter. Then I sit and I read with them and it's really nice. It's a nice way to do it. That does sound really nice. I've been loving it recently. And those YouTube videos are like 10 hours long so you're never going to run out. Oh, they last forever?

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You don't have to worry. Well, should we just dive right into it, you guys? Yeah. Yeah, what the heck are we diving into, Hen? Okay, so I watched Squid Game. The whole dang thing. And I'm here to tell you about it. I'm so excited. This will be part one because it is a nine episode series where each episode is either an hour or over an hour long. So it's a lot of content.

You know, I don't like that shows are doing that. I will say that's been a thing now. Midnight Mass was the same way. Foundation is the same way. It's too long. Make the episodes shorter. It's because, yeah, obviously there aren't commercial breaks anymore in the age of streaming. So it used to be that an hour-long episode was really 40 minutes. And

now it's like, no, an hour-long episode is an hour and 10 minutes. It's a movie. Yeah, over an hour. Yeah, it's like, no, an hour long episode is an hour and 10 minutes. It's a movie. Over an hour. Yeah, it's basically a movie. And that really is asking a lot. It's asking a lot. Because of that, I will have to skip some things and I will just do my best to try to keep everything.

And it's going to be hard, you know, I don't know. It's going to be an experiment. There is so much to say about this show. Obviously, it's an extreme success. It's Netflix's most watched show. They have said that 111 million people have watched it, which is just an obviously gargantuan number. And Netflix doesn't often release that kind of information, so very interesting. A little peek behind the curtain. A little peek behind the curtain there. Also, I've been a little curious of what that means, to be honest, because Ted Sarandos says

it has 111 million fans. And part of me wonders if that means people just watched the first episode. Right. Did they watch the whole thing? Like, what does that actually mean? So not a release the data, not a full behind, just a tiny behind the curtain. We can't write a full peak, not a full peak.

Exactly. A peak of a peak, if you will. Yes. And just a few things about it. So it's a South Korean series and it is written and directed by Won Dong-hyuk. He actually started writing it and came up with the idea of it in 2009. But he was unable to find anyone who could fund the idea until 2019 when Netflix came around. They were like, we got big pockets full of cash.

Let's make it. Damn. Imagine that. Imagine working on something for 10 years and being like, this shit's never going to see the light of day. And then it becomes the most popular show ever made by Netflix. That's so crazy. Also, that's also why these shows are so good, though. Do you know what i mean

like when someone has been working on it for 10 years like you can tell like the writing is so tight everything is so well done it's directed beautifully um the song choices throughout it are impeccable like it is really uh just a masterpiece to watch and as well as having like an insane story yeah it's like really brutal right it's very brutal it's extremely fucked up i will be watching it but the thing is it's like it's um tell me more um it's not like a horror movie though in the sense that it doesn't fill you with um dread dread in the same way and it's not as much um i mean it does it's very very sad and you do feel dread but it's not like it's not made like a horror movie um in those ways it's made more like a thriller i would say um but some extremely fucked up things happen and it is extremely sad.

And let's see here. What else? So on Rotten Tomatoes, it has 92 percent or 92 percent of 50 critics have given the series a positive review. So that's a very high number. review so that's a very high number um and that's kind of all i really wanted to say about it up top i guess is there anything else we don't really know any like the budget numbers netflix doesn't reveal that stuff huh so we don't know because i always find that so um crazy disney does so those disney shows like loki and wandavision are like some of the most expensive shows ever made and Mandalorian. And So in Wikipedia, they do reference it and they say

in a Bloomberg News article, Netflix spent about $21 million to produce the series. Damn. Which is not that high. No, that's actually dollars to produce the series. Damn. Which is not that high. No, that's actually not that high because it's nine episodes, so that's something like two million per episode. That's actually extremely low.

The Mandalorian is 15 million per episode. Per episode? Per episode. Game of Thrones towards the end was also... Also, those are 30 minute episodes right so that number is yeah 20 million dollars is not not high at all um part of the reason why those numbers get so inflated though is when you're filming a u.s production and it's like

all the above the line talent is all the like cast the directors or writers are all u.s or you know people or like it's the production company's based in the u.s you get paid so much fucking money like they get paid so much money compared to what they probably got paid in south korea yeah i'm sure it was getting paid a fuck ton of money to like be on a tv show every exactly. Exactly. Exactly. So that makes a big difference. And then also, even though the show is extremely well-directed and the sets are really cool, it's not like there are a lot

of different sets. It's pretty contained. All things considered. So there's that too. Sorry, just have to cut in with this. This is fucking crazy, but I knew that this was the most expensive show ever made, but it's the upcoming Lord of the Rings show on Amazon.

Oh yeah. Uh huh. The C for one season, 465 million. Jesus Christ. That's human beings are fucking deranged. Crazy. It's so,

we are deranged. Crazy. It's so. We are deranged. So crazy. Like, and I will watch that show. I love to watch TV shows. I love to watch movies. I love that they happen. I love when they look good and are cool.

But we are a cursed species that we like. Hey, we need to be entertained while the world burns. It's so crazy. It's like, everything is wrong. Everything is wrong. I need to distract. We are like from the horrors of reality. Horrifying,

horrifying. Human beings are so bad. And that amount of money is that's. Well, it's also no coincidence that the corporations that are like the wealthiest best corporations making the most money are the ones that are now in the entertainment game like amazon just has endless money to spend on this shit you know and they're like they're like lord of the rings like oh we spent 465 million if it uh tanks meh uh yeah we got another 465 million

right in our back pocket here like no big deal we're fucking going to space and shit this is that's so true I haven't even like it's been so long since I've even taken a step back to consider that Amazon which is like where I buy my

groceries if I go to Whole Foods and where I will order this stripper pole that I'm going to order is also making the Lord of the Rings TV show. It's just like, okay, so what? Amazon owns IMDB

and Goodreads and Washington Post. Well, Jeff Bezos owns Washington Post. That's right. So bad. It's really bad. And we don't have laws against monopolies anymore, basically. And now it's like the cat's out of the bag.

Anyway, this is not what this podcast is about, you guys. This podcast is about Squid Game. No, but I have a feeling it's a little bit about what Squid Game's about. It does not feel unrelated. No, no, it is related. It is related related as you will soon find out okay should we just hop right into it i think we should to hear the rest of this episode head on over to patreon.com slash tsdw podcast and join us

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