Created, Written and Directed by: Hwang Dong-hyug
Netflix's most watched show till date.
Spoilers Alert.
It is about 456 bankrupt contestants, who risk their lives to play games to win a huge amount of money. One good thing the show does is, they show us how badly they want the money - instead of directly jumping into the show. That makes the show more human, in spite of it having a template. Another good thing is that the show has distinctly designed characters, in a way that we root for them. My favourite game is the one where they have to take all the marbles to win the game. This game had the most amount of tension. The one where Ali dies. The game with the old man, that's using someone's weakness against them to kill them - that's the most brutal I felt in the entire show. The one where the girl convinces the other to play, and ends up dying. It was so heavy.
The tug of war was also beautiful. It could be a quintessential Telugu mass scene. The way they end the episode in a high tension moment was also beautiful - a classic cliffhanger that was. It's a lot of heavy drama, and usually I'm not into such high drama stuff. But I realised, it's because most of the times, it doesn't land and it doesn't work. Here, it does. Everything works. The reveal of the Front Man, the reveal of the old man, the ending fight, and the most kind moment of the show is where the protagonist offers to end the game, give up everything, to save one life. Such a beautiful moment it was.
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