Hanahope

I think I recall the old man saying at least some of the games were his favorites.

Considering how much they search the players I’m sure they know about it and just figured it would add more randomness and chaos to the games. They don’t really care who or how someone wins and very likely the player on drugs won’t win in the end anyway

In-ho was a former winner and now works at the games. Just unsure when and where he started . Has he always been the front man? Did he get promoted after the old man died? I agree he went into the games for money to save his wife but she died before he won. That is probably why he went back into help run the games

Ah a cliffhanger, of course. Was 246 shot in the shoulder? Was a bit hard to tell, but I think so. By 11? Will she save him somehow? and of course In-ho would kill Gi-hun’s friend. He was always going to sabotage the rebellion attempt. should have expected the boat captain to be the mole against Jun-ho’s attempts to find the island. Of course In-ho would have him save his brother. Did he clue in In-ho about other things that Jun-ho told him or the other blabbermouth? guess we have to wait a while to find out

And the fight is about to start. Who will survive the night? Jin-ho is just playing with them. So many islands…..

Interesting how many players are quite young, yet owe so much. is In-ho the new boss or is there someone higher than him? Did he go into the game before or after his wife died? Another new game.

Ooo game switch. Planned or decided when Gi-hun showed he’d tell everyone the tricks (not that it would help everyone). Looks like the triangles are running their own skimming operation behind the bosses back. And the female triangle (bunny) is trying to spoil it.

Well tracker question answered. Mole or super good guess? Or did they find the dentist? and #1 is a plant again. Will Jun-ho ever find the island?

Seems like the boss knows a lot about Gi-hun’s plans. Good guesses on human nature? Will they find Gi-hun’s tracker? His wanting to return to the game seemed to throw them off. interesting that we see, sort of, a recruitment of a worker. Wonder what she was actually told.

Poor Mr. Kim. So much smarter than his employee. Little tid bits of some new players. Gi-hun won’t let go. Neither will Jun-ho.

So I didn’t see Seamus after the bomb, I guess he escaped? I don’t know why the McCardles fell, Dove didn’t. Or did I miss something? We saw a resolution of sorts for Dove and Emmy but not Gilbert? Bot sure Sean is really going to give up his “make a quick buck” ways. Loved seeing the Irish country side and the mystery was good. The characters were complex in a way. Mostly selfish.

Heh Sean such a bit of a bumble. Did I miss where Fiona said Seamus was the father? Hah Seamus is going to be both loving and hating Sean as a son.

Ok so I was half right after all. Is Sean the baby?

Ok my theory appears to be wrong. Seamus seems to really have no idea what happened at all, so he was no involved. And Teddy may not have seen what happened, but he saw something I think. Both Dove and Emmy are certainly written to be a bit of a bitch, more so in Dove’s case, but looks like she had a real tough childhood. Seamus is getting a very good edit so I’ll be surprised if he doesn’t turn out to be a bit of a hero at the end now. So who is the redhead and what happened to the real Fiona?

So did Teddy have so much of a crush on his teacher that when he saw her with Seamus he caused her death and Malachy got in the way and died too, and it snapped Teddy’s mind and then Seamus hid the bodies because Fiona begged him to not hurt Teddy before she died? the town knows Teddy is involved somehow so they are all protecting him. that’s my guess

Hah the convent was great. And the solved the mystery of the boy, sort of. Looks like Gilbert’s podcasts don’t do so well financially

Seems like something going on in the town and instead of just giving the podcasters some stories to take home, they are raising more suspicions. Too bad for them a real investigator tagged along.

Half of the Mole’s job is made easy by other contestants sabotaging the missions to make others vote for them as the mole. Just like the auction, Sean didn’t have to do much except say he was going to bid. He could have bid $1,000 but he know someone would bid huge. and he knew others would occasionally do stupid or on purpose stuff to cause money loss to make themselves look suspicious. Sean was on my radar early being an undercover cop, but Ryan crept up as she was so passive in supporting all wrong choices. But Sean did more active sabotage.

Very surprised at both Ryan and Hannah going home. I really thought Ryan was the mole and was pretty sure it wasn’t Muna. I think it’s Sean now, who was my second choice. I can’t believe they let Michael be on the ropes. He is the heaviest, that was stupid.

I think it’s Ryan. She always supports wrong suggestions, and holds back in general. Michael just wants suspicion his way.

It’s hard to have Lady Gaga in a movie and not have her sing. But yeah Joaquin should not. boy this movie dragged. Glad I just watched at home.

you might quibble over the quality of Grande's acting, but she has been acting since at least 2010. so that is more than "almost no acting experience" in my book. I remember her from Victorious (because i have kids).

i give Jamie a little bit of a pass because he had a letter to deliver to Washington and clearly couldn't bring Lord John with him. But he should have immediately gone to the camp where they had Lord John and explained things. I don't think he will forgive himself if something bad happens to Lord John (though somehow I expect LJ will survive).

I thought Weissman took an awful risk allowing the cop bar to get shot up when he had hidden the record behind the photo. he couldn't stop a bullet ricocheting off something and hitting the photo, going through it and the record, destroying the recording and there goes the only shot at stopping the time loop. of course, the problem with these stories is how the loop started in the first place. and i still can't get over how the old lady Harker decided to allow some strange man into her home to pretend to be her son (let alone society accepting him because at least some people had to have known the real Julian Harker beforehand and knew this guy wasn't him - at least until he started making money for them - mannix must have studied 1889 finance very closely to find out how to make money very fast).

after some reflection, i thought the story was pretty good. taking it from Helen's POV for the most part (with a bit of Sam's at times), it did a pretty good job of laying it all out. so of course we needed Reed's explanation of the whole story at the end to fill in the bits neither Helen nor Sam saw. One could see where Reed was a bit worried about Helen's loyalties to the Doves' when she started seeing Jason and it sounds like Reed didn't know Jason was MI5 until she got the whole story at the end. Who did she get that bit of info from? But Reed was worried about losing her spy that was getting close to #10. Still, i think she played her cards too soon with Dani. Once Jason was dead, sure Helen wanted vengeance, but that didn't mean she was now going to leave Wallace. and how long as the nanny been a Dove? I do wonder how Helen can explain all her late night outings to Wallace on ...what helping Sam with...something? I guess Helen must have done all her christmas shopping done early since she clearly wasn't doing shopping during these outings. And really, the dead Chinese ambassador's daughter isn't immediately flown back to China when she's found, but can spend christmas with two assassins? sure. or is she still "in hiding?" i guess that wasn't really explained. wasn't that a nice bit of coincidence that the only survivor of that big shoot out was Cole Atwood. You really think he's not going to want to use his bit of knowledge about Helen in the future sometime? and even if Jason reported to MI5 that Helen wasn't a spy, shouldn't MI5 still be worried that the wife of the defense secretary and now eventual PM is at risk for having affairs?