Emmy Catch-Up: Squid Game

Squid Game: Season 1, Episode 5 “A Fair World” (B)

It’s strange to see some ethics come into play when people are being brutally murdered for arbirtrary reasons on a regular basis on this show. The Front Man’s assertion that whether someone was eating or selling organs didn’t matter, but he had messed with the number one rule of the game, which wasn’t keeping your mask on but rather ensuring equality, something that these people had endured in their regular lives but didn’t need to here. I wouldn’t really agree with that given that there are still disadvantages like physical strength and age, and even those who managed to be exceedingly clever, like Player 1, are still subject to the limits of their own health, as his high fever indicated before his accident when the guards came in. I would imagine that there will now be even stricter protocols to ensure the players stay in line even though it was the guards who were abusing the rules in the first place, and Player 101 surely won’t be happy that he’s lost the asset who can preview what’s coming next. The man currently posing as Guard 29 has had his cover blown but not his true identity, and getting out is going to be next to impossible. Learning more about the past lives of the players, like Player 456 and Player 199, is interesting, and they obviously all have something to contribute based on what they’ve experienced and the reason that they ended up in this place aside from the whole lack of money thing.