Wasted potential mixed with bingable story in a show

Disclaimer: THE REVIEW INCLUDES MAJOR SPOILERS!! IF YOU HAVEN'T FINISHED IT DON'T READ IT. | It's my first time ever writing a review and english isn't even my first language so i aplogize for my mistakes/poor grammar/overusing same words and all of it. Hope you enjoy the reivew.

You guys are probably going to think that i rated the show too high. I think the same too by the way, but i just want to tell y'all even if i thought i would rate it too low than 8.0 at first episode, as the show was contiuning, i changed my mind. Well, first of all let's start with the main thing, story. The story is a VERY good idea and it could have been a literaly masterpiece. The plot was starting avarage and basic for a survival show like this, the executions, story of the reason of the mafia game, and all the stuff etc. were enjoyable. But as the show went, there were so many unanswered questions and really confusing parts.

I wanna mention that there were NO character development in this show. Literal 0 character development. The ML and FL + Jungwon were hypocrites. They were acting like "omg i'm so innocent", they failed to show it to us. Junhee, the ML literally were being biased on yoon seo and blaming others when they were just basically trying to survive like others. He said that he wouldn't vote for her even if he knew that she was mafia. He tried to save Woo ram without any evidence of him being innocent or citizen/police/doctor. He wanted to help him and talk others just because he is his friend. When he said that he wouldn't vote for Yoonseo, i got ick. If i was yoonseo, i wouldn't even have believed in it.

The FL was dumb. Sorry not sorry, Somi literally threw her to a pool, she was going to drown here because of a ghost (that didn't have a big impact in the show but just tortured FL mainly and only), she (somi) made her look like a mafia in 2 seconds, made her gain votes just like kyungjun. And you know what was the main reason somi did it?

Junhee. In a place that they're forced to play a mafia game that kills each of them every night, getting executed horribly, completely helpless, they care about romance. I have no idea why it happens in kdramas, makes zero sense to me. Hey! You're going to die there if you do something a little suspicious. And you care about your crush that probably says siuuu after gaining a goal at futboll.

Just remembered the scene that kyungjun and his team's "siuu" after winning A BASKETBALL GAME. Let's not talk about, even the flashbacks of that scene haunts me to this day.

Let's go back to the story, i think people blaming others for just simply trying to survive was the most unrealistic part of the show. I mean.. of course everyone is going to defend themselves. No, you would do the same thing. Just like how you don't choose to be a citizen, they don't choose to be a mafia. Why are you even blaming them for that?

Friendships were weak and just not loyal. I mean i know they are trying to survive, but lying was stupid. Kyungjun not caring about his yellow-head friend made sense to me, but lying about helping him (his friend w blue tshirt) in private but suspecting him in the public was stupid. Just tell him that you're not on his side and thats it. Mina and Somi, won't even talk about them, the amount of switch ups were too much.

The acting was.. meh. Could've been so much better. I don't know why but the acting made me think of a reason to drop the show. I really thought i was going to, but as i said in the headline, it was really easy to binge mainly because of short time of episodes / things happening fast. I finished the show in a day without even getting bored.

Characters were dumb. Really dumb. The main trio were smart compared to others and for their age, me, myself would get panicked in all of the situations and probably just pass out while everything happened.

Why are they not paying attention to something after they just found out about it? For an example; Kyungjun blamed his friend jinha with the proof which was the brick, they caught him with that because they never mentioned brick. But that was it. He had no answers for that, they quickly moved on to jinha and accusing him of killing the doctor in the game and never stayed on him too much.

Why are they all trusting each other? It's not like they have no choice, they just can try to survive by themselves (talking about the rest of the students) They know how evil they are. I would just go solo tbh, no one is trustable there even a little bit. As i said, characters were dumb and very unlikable.

Students not believing in a line being dangerous while the game says that it is and rest of it, but they are witnessing their friends' death in a supernatural way. Sounds ridiculous to me. I don't think most of them even tried to survive.

The voting.. there are so many things about it but i'll keep my mouth shut. Just one thing. Why the hell are they not voting for kyungjun?? Even if i was one of his friends i would betray him the second everyone votes for him, idc. He would cause all the trouble and surviving chance would lower 80% because of him. Not just him bullying everyone, but trying to make people vote for someone the second he sees them being "suspicious". Okay, i get it. He's trying to survive like everyone here, but it's different and at least i would have made everyone convince that he needs to be voted in a minute. Stupid, too stupid.

I wanna mention one thing, Nam Yeon Woo's death was so fatphobic. He didn't jump off of somewhere or something like that like the other students did, but why couldn't he just hit his head or use knife etc. to die?? Why did he have to choke because of foods? I don't think if he wasn't fat he would have choose that metod to die, idk. Seems fatphobic to me.

There were a ghost in the show and it had 0 impact in the show i can say. They can just mention Park Se-eun and not the ghost that only makes FL frustrated.

Heh, i talked too much and yapped. Coming to the ending, i guess i'm the only one who liked it. No seriously, everyone broke a point for the ending but its the main thing that made it more interesting and rewatchable to me. At least made me hope for a season 2. Her parents were crazy.. I don't think it even was a revenge. It was straight up another dimension. Also the students who weren't even involved in bullying being tortured so bad.. ugh.

As the ending scene is contiuning, a question pops up; Where are their parents? 2 people managed to create a mind game that tortures people, okay. But they also managed to kidnap almost 30 people or a number near to that, are none of their contacting them? Trying to find them? Where even they were at the ending scene..? Like the dark place, where is it? Some secret place that's harder to get in than North Korea? Some another universe? Their own house? I guess unless a new season comes, we will never know the answer.

So, after yapping a lot, as a result... I loved the show. Yes, it was filled with stupid things and kinda mid acting, dumb decisions with an unsatisying ending and all of that, but hear me out. I loved it so much and finsihed in a day. It had so much potential and wasted it. I blame it on the editing mostly by the way, idk something was just off. But, rewatchable and thriller filled for me. So, maybe i rated too high in your guys' opinion, but i think it deserves it. Thanks for reading the dumb review(⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡

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