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9 p.m. - Theft in the 3000 block of
Pleasant View Drive NE.
11:45 p.m. - Vandalism in the 900 block
of Merlot Avenue NE.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27
7:23 a.m. - Vandalism in the 7000 block
of Shadowwood Street NE.
6:34 p.m. - Identity theft in the 700
block of Boardwalk Avenue NE.
7:56 p.m. - Failure to perform duties
of driver when property was damaged at
the intersection of Filbert Street NE and
Alder Drive NE.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28
12:01 p.m. - Shoplifting in the 6000
block of Ulali Drive NE.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29
2:50 p.m. - Driving under the infl u-
ence of intoxicants at the intersection
of Dearborn Avenue NE and Verda Lane
NE.
9:35 p.m. - Physical harassment in the
500 block of Glynbrook Street N.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30
1:28 p.m. - Physical harassment in the
500 block of Chemawa Road N.
2 p.m. - Motor vehicle theft in the 1000
block of Clearlake Road NE.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 31
2:42 p.m. - Motor vehicle theft in the
7000 block of Sagebrush Street NE.
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Squid Game is all that
it’s cracked up to be
Review
By T.J. Reid
For the Keizertimes
It is sometimes easy for me to forget
in the never-ending deluge of Hollywood
content that the United States is no lon-
ger the only superpower when it comes to
making movies and television. Every once
in a while, however, the comfy yet blinding
isolationist bubble that American studios
have infl ated around me in the fi eld of
entertainment is burst when an unex-
pected gem comes rocketing to our shores,
reminding me yet again that we are not
the center of the world. South Korea’s
Parasite, for example, was not content
to be the best “foreign fi lm” of the year,
but the best fi lm period (if you treat the
Academy Awards as anything more than
an exercise in self-congratulatory non-
sense, anyway). In this same spirit, it was
a shock to many people (creator Hwang
Dong-hyuk included) when Korea’s Squid
Game shot into the American zeitgeist
and beat Bridgerton in becoming Netfl ix’s
most viewed original show ever this last
week. And after spending some time with
it I can confi dently say that Squid Game is
one of those rare phenomena that is all it’s
cracked up to be.
The premise is pretty straightforward:
a mysterious organization captures hun-
dreds of impoverished/in debt Korean
citizens and off ers them the chance to win
billions of won (Korea’s currency) if they
compete in an elaborate series of chil-
dren’s games on a giant scale. The only
catch? They lose, they die. They break the
rules, they die. Other TV shows and mov-
ies have had similar ideas, but none are as
eff ectively conveyed and as disturbingly
timely as in the case of Squid Game, which
fi rmly demands you consider subjects
such as class inequality and the dehu-
manizing nature of greed even as it shows
you the worst possible outcomes of such
things as a dire warning to alter course. It
is a dark, brutal tale with some incredible
acting, a fantastic soundtrack and edge-
of-your-seat storytelling that preaches as
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Netflix
well as entertains. It does have a lot of
blood and stuff though, so don’t watch it
with your elderly grandma or anything.
Ironically, the only things I can
fault Squid Game for are American (or,
rather, English) related. The translation
from Korean to English is not perfect at
times; although, I fi nd that this is to be
expected-- translations are very rarely 1:1.
The American dubs are also quite terri-
ble, ranging from silly sounding to oddly
off ensive. If you watch Squid Game, you
should defi nitely watch it in it’s original
Fall
Korean with English subtitles (this was
Netfl ix’s default when I watched it). These
are pretty small complaints, however; an
odd word choice here or there should not
be enough to keep you from this one.
As I type this, it is unclear whether or
not Netfl ix will greenlight the show for a
second season. It certainly has the num-
bers and the story potential, so only time
will tell. I, for one, will be watching if they
do.
All nine episodes of Squid Game (sea-
son one?) are now available on Netfl ix.
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