It took me so long to finish
Bloody Game season 2! (Looks like I started somewhere in July.) There was a stretch of a few weeks where I was three episodes from the finale and just couldn't get through, the pace and editing was SO BAD in the second half of the season. Made worse because at the same time I was watching Taran's
The Genius season 1 commentary, which further made me appreciate how
tight the editing is in that show, even during its slower first season.
(Tangent: Taran paused his
The Genius commentary to commentate over
Survivor: Australia - Australia vs. the World, which I ended up watching because I figured that his commentary would be interesting enough to cancel out my general disinterest in
Survivor -- speaking as someone who followed season 2 and 3 really closely back in the day. Taran had way less to say because he doesn't have as much game strategy to analyse, but it was fun to get a glimpse of
Survivor fandom lingo and meta discussion about "player edits" and "social currency".)
I finally forced myself to finish
Bloody Game's season 2, in the hopes of getting to the reportedly better season 3. It's been literal months since I first started season 2, and at one point I accidentally deleted my post on the earlier episodes when it was in a dreamwidth draft, so I'll try to recall what my thoughts were.
Why couldn't I have fastforwarded through season 2 the way I did season 1? Because Hong Jin-ho was a player. Dammit, Jin-ho! Though a lot of the time I let the show play in the background while I did other things. It is fun seeing Jin-ho, who "rescued"
The Genius's debut season, appear almost ten years later in
Bloody Game as a veteran (and thus letting go, fashion effort wise) in a mostly younger-than-him cast.
( More thoughts about Bloody Game's season 2. )