{"id":15438,"date":"2026-07-02T10:12:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T09:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15438"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:31:53","slug":"bloody-game-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15438","title":{"rendered":"Bloody Game X"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just a note that the new series of Korea&#8217;s <strong>Bloody Game<\/strong>\/<strong>Game of Blood<\/strong> launches with English subs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kocowa.com\/en_us\/guide#641_7\">on KOCOWA+<\/a> from tomorrow, July 3rd. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15130\">We wrote a bit about the last series we watched last Summer here<\/a>. I hope we&#8217;re not getting three-hour episodes again, but who knows, hopefully it will remain <em>art<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since writing that the format (or at least the initial version of the format) seems to have launched fairly successfully on streaming services in various Scandinavian countries (and is on its third series I think in Norway &#8211; I&#8217;m not quite sure how or if indeed they bother keeping the secret house a secret by series three, or if they still get to see the elimination ballots). I&#8217;ve quite enjoyed seeing how each territory brings its own spin on it, Sweden&#8217;s is set in a luxury high rise apartment, for example, and &#8220;sorting coloured beads&#8221; seems to be the Scandinavian equivalent of folding pizza boxes for survival cash. I&#8217;m still not sure this version is much better than &#8220;Studio Lambert does a reality show for Channel 4&#8221; but there we are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a note that the new series of Korea&#8217;s Bloody Game\/Game of Blood launches with English subs on KOCOWA+ from tomorrow, July 3rd. We wrote a bit about the last series we watched last Summer here. I hope we&#8217;re not getting three-hour episodes again, but who knows, hopefully it will remain art. Since writing that\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=15438\">Read More: Bloody Game X &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-410","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}