Squid Game: VIPs

 “Ah, the real sixty-nine, huh?"

This is another firt class episode, fortunately not so heartbreaking. The penultimate game is most entertaining, and there's an intriguing twist in the arrival of the interestingly masked "VIPs", who proceed to bet on the game and, in one case, choose the wrong member of staff to sexually harass.

There's also the nature of the game- a bridge where half the steps are tempered glass, and half glass that will break. The tactics and strategy are fascinating, from the order they go in to the realisation that pushing is possible. There's the shock that Mi-Nyeo wasn't killed- and the fact that she dies (aww, I liked here!) but rather pleasingly takes Deok-Su with her. Good. This is all perfectly paced, dramatic entertainment, yet with heard. The suicide of the cruelly widowed number 69 is devastating.

So the survivors are Sae-byeok, Sang-woo and Gi-hun. Three left... and the undercover cop has escaped. Two episodes to go...