Night Has Come (2023)

I litteraly watched it all in a day

so for me the big reveal at the end wasn’t why I enjoyed it. I loved every small plot twist during the game and honestly if the mafia are always randomly decided and it’s a different game each time I would LOVE to have 50 seasons of it. The concept is amazing I would love to see how each game went on depending on everyone’s assigned roles. I think this season turn out to be just one out of many “alternative ending” possible. and as much as I would love a season two with our main character aware of the game and breaking them all free out of it I would also just love to see more seasons of the other games they played.

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WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

Ok let's start Honestly at the beginning of this drama I really like it and when thgame started there were some people I wanted dead but let's be real number 1: Honestly the Mafias could have won this long ago and it was very dragged on number 2: I was sick of Jun-hee's righteous/sorry boy act like I get that he was traumatized or something but you don't have to act like your world revolves around that number 3: that Kyung-jun bastard I mean everyone was trying to survive why did you have to go and kill almost all of them honestly I love these Kdramas but anytume I see any bullying tbing it gets really fucking frustrating and Lastly, Se-eun's mother is a huge bitch hiw could she trap children under the pretext of getting fucking revenge I mean yes her daughter died but not everyone was involved in it why would she do that to Innocent CHILDREN for Christ's sake I love Jung won and in short this drama was a very good one and the writers did a very good job but I hated the ending it was so stupid and I wish there's a season 2 but I doubt so

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The ending…

This show was really good it kept you on your toes and had unexpected surprises. But there were things that were mentioned that felt like it just became irrelevant after like junhee’s swimming fear. And once kyungjun died the show felt more plain and kinda dry. Then they ending was very unsatisfying because it felt rushed and the parents whole reasons was honestly kinda stupid because what does the whole class have to do with your daughter’s death then saying yoonseo just watched her die (she clearly didn’t) it didn’t really add up. Personally the only way I can be somewhat satisfied with this ending if there was a S2 or more episodes where they actually get free. But it’s still worth the watch because the cast did a flawless job.

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“A Quiet Storm: Navigating Grief and Secrets in Night Has Come”

Night Has Come is a subtle yet powerful drama that pulls you into the delicate, shadowy spaces of grief and hidden family truths. The story follows a young woman grappling with the sudden loss of a loved one, as she unravels secrets that challenge everything she thought she knew. The film’s slow, meditative pace lets you feel the weight of silence and the aching loneliness that comes with loss. 🌙🖤🤫

The performances are quietly compelling, with a naturalistic style that makes the emotional struggles feel authentic without melodrama. The cinematography paints the night as both a refuge and a prison — beautiful, dark, and mysterious. While the film may not rush to resolution or grand revelations, it honors the complexity of mourning and the painful path toward understanding. Night Has Come feels like a whispered conversation with your own shadow — intimate, somber, and unforgettable. 🌌🕯️💭

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A Dramatic Mess of Plotholes

Let’s get one thing straight before we begin: "Night Has Come" is not boring. It’s not. That’s the secret sauce that makes all the disasters hit harder. It keeps you hooked. You binge it like popcorn—you gasp, you side-eye, you yell at the screen, you clutch your metaphorical pearls. But once the adrenaline fades, once the fog of red lighting and haunting background scores lifts, you realize… wait.

Nothing makes sense.
Not a single. Damn. Thing.

But we’ll get there.

THE GOOD: LET’S GIVE FLOWERS WHERE THEY’RE DUE (BEFORE WE RIP THE REST TO SHREDS)

Cinematography: AMAZING. If vibes were currency, this show would be a billionaire. Every frame is dripping with eerie school-horror nostalgia. It knows how to play with light and darkness. The glowing screen, the empty halls, the slow push-ins—it eats.

Concept: Mafia, but make it trauma simulation. GENIUS. A class-wide murder game that tests morality, loyalty, and trauma responses in teenagers? That’s basically every ethics professor’s wet dream.

Sound design & music: Carrying the tension like a worn-out grandma carrying her grandkids. They put their back into it, and it shows. The atmosphere owes 80% of its tension to the music and sound cues.

Casting: The cast is well-picked. Pretty people doing suspicious things with sometimes good microexpressions? We support that. SOME of the acting genuinely lands—especially when things get chaotic and desperate.

NOW. THE BAD. AND BOY, IT’S A MAZE
Let’s start small and snowball into rage.

If the game was meant to punish people, why make it so convoluted? Why let randoms die? Why not just mafia wipe everyone out in one night? It’s giving convenient writing just to drag the story. Also was mafia the best game? I can think about some good reasons for it being chosen for example, letting the children experience the hurt of betrayal and pain. But I do believe there could have been better alternatives. Not really a complaint tho

Jungwon being mafia instead of citizen?? Like okay your daughter was the victim and you want revenge, but you’re forcing her to kill people too? What kind of twisted character arc is that? She should've been the sole citizen in the group of mafias. That would’ve made so much more sense. Why would you not make her the citizen and put her in real danger to heighten the stakes and make her survival mean something? Like seriously, from a story perspective, it would be 100x more interesting if Jungwon was the last citizen standing while everyone else is a predator. The way they’ve done it just kills the emotional weight of her being the “survivor.”

Back to the game: the mafia could’ve also pulled a power move and just taken everyone’s phones, yeeted them into the forest, and forced everyone into death by default. No votes? No problem. Boom — everyone dies. Now imagine if someone had risked their life and crossed the border to get those phones back. That would’ve been so much more gripping and deep and could’ve added an entire new layer of moral dilemma, sacrifice, and suspense. But nope. They opted for dragging things out in the dumbest way possible. From a story perspective, it doesn't make any sense.

Okay but, Cha Woo-Min’s character Ko Kyungjun? Surprisingly the only one I liked. Usually I find Cha Woo-Min’s roles unbearable, but here? He actually ATE. He had more depth, more nuance, more complexity than the rest of the cast combined. He was still a villain, yes, but there were scenes where you could see the cracks — the vulnerability. There’s one where he’s on the verge of tears, and it’s subtle but powerful. He wasn’t just cartoonishly evil. He was the only character with an actual emotional arc that made sense. He had presence. He had layers. He had consistency, which is more than I can say for the rest of them.

Now Lee Jae-In’s character Lee Yoon-Seo? Girl… I can’t. Her acting was so flat it made drywall look emotional. She had like, two emotions, max. Maybe three if we’re being generous. The only time she actually stirred emotion was when she pulled Junhee out of the pool and said she wished she’d confessed before he died. That hit. That one line. That ONE moment. That’s all. Everything else? Zzz.

Kim Jun-Hee? Kim Woo-seok I LOVE YOU BUT, I’ve seen cardboard cutouts with more emotional range. His backstory — the whole swimming trauma thing? Unexplored. Unresolved. There’s so much they could’ve said about it: Was he a champion swimmer? Why is he scared of the water as in what what was his relation to the situation of someone else drowning? We don’t know. We never know. Because guess what? This drama doesn’t believe in explaining anything. It just throws vague clues and says, “Figure it out.” No closure. No arcs. Just vibes and death.

And the rest of the cast? Forgettable. Underdeveloped. Annoying. Let’s talk about Kim So-Mi’s character, who I swear was written just to test my patience. Her blaming Na-Hee for the video leak and Seeun's death? And people believing her??? Girl is literally known to be OBSESSED with Jun-Hee. Na-Hee says she’s being framed, and everyone acts like that’s a wild theory? As if So-Mi’s obsession isn’t public knowledge? Be so for real. Why does no one in this universe use their brain? Although, when at the end Na-hee revealed her role, it was pretty cold.

And theres this thing — this drama pretends it’s a character study. But it's not. It wants to explore trauma, morality, fear, guilt, but does it through weak character development, vague plotlines, and open-ended nonsense. Like “what if?” but with no effort to actually answer the question. And honestly, that’s what makes it frustrating.

TLDR for upcoming lines; these are just small nitpicks but it HEAVILY effected me during my watch and was so annoying.

1. Yoonseo biting Da Beom only when the cavalry arrives?

Girl.
You were being held hostage by a clearly unhinged dude with a weapon, and you waited to bite him?! What happened to fight-or-flight? You chose stall-and-dramatize. Survival instincts turned off for plot convenience, I guess?

And let’s talk Da Beom real quick—

2. WHY DID DA BEOM WANT TO KILL JUNGWON?!

This is a hill I will die on.
His entire character was “revenge for bullying,” right? Okay, fine. But he has zero beef with Jungwon. None. Nada. She’s not even remotely in his radar. Yet suddenly he’s like, “Yes, I must kill this random girl.” Why? Is she too composed for his liking? NO. It’s lazy writing. They just needed drama and pulled names out of a hat. “Hmmm, we need tension. Spin the Wheel of Murder—oooh! Jungwon. Let’s do it.”

3. The NEON PAINT CLUE?

That was less detective thriller and more Dora the Explorer.
They find neon paint on the SIDE of Mina's shoe and suddenly that’s the big Sherlock Holmes clue that leads to her being caught? I don't know why this show makes all its characters stupid and gullible. The characters fall for this stuff even after it has been shown that the mafias plant evidence on others!? YOU see that there's no paint on the back of her shoe, yet they are still on her neck.. WHY??

4. Jungwon: The "Mastermind" or the Script's Favorite Child

So I'm just being supposed to believe that she knows how everyone else will react and she knows everyone's moves like that's just plot convenience at peak. You could argue that its just programmed into the game but for me it seems like lazy writing.

And don’t get me started on how—

5. Wooram is mafia but Mina ISN’T?!

Wooram’s entire role in the show was to exist. No real bullying backstory, no real emotional weight, no motive. Just vibes and sad boy expressions. But MINA—who actively bullied Seeun—gets to skate by?? How does that make sense in a game supposedly designed for justice? Oh wait. It doesn’t. BECAUSE NOTHING MAKES SENSE.

6. The Ending: A Plot Twist Powered by Copium

Three wires, a yellow capsule, and BAM! You’re in a fully immersive life-or-death simulation with memory erasure, emotional realism, and possibly AI ghosts.

Be honest. This isn’t sci-fi. This is science-lie.
They use “advanced technology” like a toddler uses glitter: to cover every crack and make you think it’s pretty. But if you ask literally any questions, the whole thing collapses.

How are the students alive? Are they eating virtual food or real food? Does eating virtual food feed their real life selves? Where are their parents? How long have they been in there? Are their parents just casually chillin’ like "oh yeah my kid’s doing a five-day school murder VR project, no biggie"? WHY ARE THERE NO STAKES OUTSIDE THE GAME?

You know why they don’t tell you?
Because they don’t know either.

7. More Seeun and Jungwon plot convenience

So… Seeun becomes an AI ghost because of her love for Yoon-seo? And she somehow overrides the system to let Yoonseo win? And then everyone's memories come back because the host’s name was revealed?

EXCUSE ME???

So all the previous games ended with no justice. Just more trauma. Jungwon was always the winner. No one remembered Seeun. So they just… played this sick death game and left. Repeatedly.

This was the first time justice accidentally happened and we’re supposed to be happy? Like oh yay the dead girl finally got her wish after dozens of runs that failed? This isn’t a plot twist. This is Stockholm syndrome in a box with glitter on it.

8. The Ghost Disbelief Gave Me Actual Brain Cramp

“You think it’s a ghost? No way. That’s unrealistic.”

BABE.
You are in a locked youth center building, playing a high-tech killing simulation, with kids dying in real time, with eerie things happening all the time and AI voices speaking through speakers… and a ghost is where you draw the line???

The show wants to be sci-fi and supernatural and psychological and philosophical and horror and thriller—but it ends up just being a Jenga tower of genres falling over itself.

FINAL THOUGHTS:

This drama is literally the definition of wasted potential. The cast? Great. The concept? Revolutionary. The execution?

Y’all… I fear it flopped.

"Night Has Come" has the aesthetic of a prestige drama but the internal logic of a dream you forget two minutes after waking up. You feel like you watched something important… until you try to explain it to someone else, and realize you sound insane.

It’s a drama that screams it wants to say something, but in the end, it only delivers half-formed ideas buried under mood lighting.

Verdict:
Beautiful. Addictive. Incoherent. The best worst thing I’ve ever watched.

Rating: 6.5/10
(+2 for tension. -1 for logic. +1 for pretty faces. -2 for plotholes. +1 for the high I felt while watching. +5.5 for Cha Woomin)

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Could’ve been great.

I was excited for this. I found myself really intrigued by how they would be able to pull this off. Like, when someone is voted off, how will they die? I imagined it to be like Red Light, Green Light in Squid Game, where there’s people hidden with guns. I won’t lie, I was a bit disappointed when it was supernatural. But hey, that’s fine! Surely it’ll still be interesting…!

It wasn’t. At least not for long. At the beginning, I was super curious about who the mafia was (although I think it was super predictable that Jeongwon and Somi would be mafia.) But the show felt like it was just dragging after a while. Every episode was the same… Someone dies, vote out a civilian, blame the person who suggested them, then repeat.

FL felt insufferable at times. She kept trying to play the hero, despite it actively working against her. ML was okay, but a little boring. I wish they had gone a little more in depth on the characters backstories, at least the main characters. We still don’t even know why Junhee doesn’t like pools!

Why did it seem like the characters were just so stupid?? I get that they’re high schoolers and they’re scared, but common sense was not so common for them. Why did everyone blindly follow what Kyungjun said every single time?? That guy had no idea what he was talking about and got countless civilians voted out, but everyone just kept agreeing with him?? And why did no one suspect Somi earlier??? She was always one of the first to blame other people, and even her FRIENDS, yet no one suspected a thing. Hell, she LITERALLY killed someone in plain sight (on the mountain) and STILL wasn’t considered?! It’s insane.

Also, why did they build up all that tension between FL & ML just to not do anything with it? I was expecting them to showcase more of their romance but literally the most we got was a hug. FML.

But here’s the thing: Sure, finding out who the mafia are is interesting for a little. But after the 3rd person was revealed, I got tired of it. The fact that out of the entire show we only got 20 minutes explaining why the game even happened is insane. And it was a lousy ending, in my opinion. The logic of the parents was incredibly flawed. Yoonseo and Junhee were LITERALLY the only true friends of Seeun, and probably made her life a bit more bearable, yet they get punished too?

Also, it sounds really scary and threatening to hear that they’ve been repeating the games over and over, but if their memories are wiped, to them, it’s only as if it happened once… So…

Lastly, out of all the plot holes, the one I hated the most was where the f*ck did their teacher go?? I know that it was probably just set up by the parents to start the game, but I feel like there should’ve been some kind of closure on that.


I know this review has been overwhelming negative, but I still did enjoy the show. I think it did its job at being a highschool -set thriller and you probably won’t regret watching it, you’ll just feel a little empty. Like a piece is missing, because with all the plot holes, one probably is.

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A Hit or a Miss?

When this drama was out, I couldn't patiently wait for the next episode, because of the plot twists and the story which made me nervous. The acting was great and the storyline is interesting with multiple theories but I was disappointed with the bad ending. About the characters, most are straight-up dumb, and their decisions are too childish, the only reason that this drama was exciting is because of the MAFIAs. Although this is not the best, I really enjoyed the feeling of having uncountable questions in my head, yeah, it did answer most of those questions in the end but it felt rushed.

And also, Where are their parents and family members?? How do Se-eun's parents manage to kidnap them for the stupid video game, only because of the reason they ignore their daughter?!?! Like seriously, they also are the same, they should've comforted and supported her before, not just blamed other kids who have their own life to care for.

Overall, this is not a bad drama, I enjoyed it through out the show even though I don't like the end. This lacks storyline but the performances were nice, a gud drama to watch if you love this kind of genre.

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Finish this season first

The ending of this drama kept setting up season 2 that it forgot to wrap up it's this season first, and it sucks.

I actually don't have that much of a problem with this drama, sure the writing isn't top notch, and some characters were annoying, but apart from other minor nitpicks, it was still a solid and entertaining show. My only gripe with it is the inclusion of Se Eun. She was such a.. nothing character. We don't know who she is and we learn next to nothing of her other than that she was bullied and committed suicide. Which sucks the most because she's such an important character, she's basically the catalyst for the entire show and yet we don't care about her. The ending expects you to sympathize with the parents but it's hard to do that because we knew next to nothing about Se Eun, we didn't form any emotional bonds with her as a character and we were never given a chance to do so.

I feel what would've been better is a flashback episode dedicated to bringing Se Eun to light and showing the viewers who she is as a character, it should've shown So Min and the rest of the mafia/bullies as horrible people so their deaths become all the more satisfying. They also should've shown the aftermath of the deepfake thing to really nail in just how much Se Eun suffered and make the viewers sympathize with her even more. It just shows her getting teased for like a minute and then done. What? Maybe they could've shown Se Eun getting harassed by other male characters, or her losing out on opportunities because of the video, all of it which would impact her in great ways. But alas it just falls back onto the main problem that we don't know who Se Eun reallt is. It would've cleared so much mystery surrounding her character and maybe made the viewers actually care about the parents and her su!cide.

Which brings me back to my main point, the writers kept on setting up a season 2 that they forgot to finish this season first. The endings sucked because it was very clearly just a segue to the next season and not actually an ending to this one. I'm not sure if this drama has been renewed already, but I sure hope so if the writers are so confident in centering the entire season's ending as a segue to season 2. If it hasn't been renewed yet though, well that would've been just pointless.

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It's just not the best of the year because I watched Twinkling Watermelon

In my entire life, I have never watched a drama that left me as outraged as this one. But not in a bad way, but in a WONDERFUL way.

I admit that I started watching without any expectations, but finish it anyway as if I had seen the greatest masterpiece in the world.

Some may find the plot tiring or the ending meaningless and unnecessary, but in my opinion the ending was perfect!

I had some Duty after school dejavus, it made things more tense while I watched and the experience was 100 times better!

This definitely became my top 2 of dramas watched in 2023

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AN ENTERTAINING WATCH

Just finished this and Iam not sure how I feel about the ending to be honest I love the whole idea but it could have been executed a little better otherwise it felt a little lazy and open.

Any ways the story was intriguing and captivating, it has a way of keeping you on your toes as you watched and those little cliff hangers at the end of the episodes always got be excited to watch more...the acting was good from every one but I mainly want to show appreciation to Ahn Jiho ( Da bum) Choi yebin ( Jung Woo) and Choi woomin( Kyung Jun) (They weren't even the first main characters of the show but they did steal the spotlight with their immerse acting, it was crazy yet really impactful...

I just feel like the main roles could have been written a little better the male lead and female leads characters felt a bit bland and boring and to be honest the characters played by the bullies and the so called villains of the show had more complexity and layers and their characters just felt really entertaining to the point that they carried most of the episodes for me.

I also feel like they would have made it a bit longer for proper execution and also to allow us get connected to the characters otherwise some times it felt fast and most characters didn't really leave an impact....or room to connect with the viewers.

Overall if you want something short thrilling and scary( not so much) with nice twists and amazing acting then try this out and decide if the ending is what you wanted or not....

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