The Devil’s Plan Death Room

Incredible!

I just want to summarize this. Of course, it's Devil's Plan! Full of wits, with betrayals and emotions. I am enjoying this season compared to the season 1. Hyungyu and Sohee did well, putting them together in alliance are unbeatable! 👏👏 👏 It's just right that they're in the finals. I am so impressed with their games. But saying that someone's the true villain i think was not fair, because they all did "clever" things inside..and blaming someone to clear conscience is not right? It seems to be that they couldnt accept that they're outwitted by younger player/s, like Hyungyu. He's coming strong, calm, determine, and confident..so they're seeing him as a villain. But as a viewer, I did see that they only see Hyungyu but did not see themselves. Also, the prison group are more conniving. For sure, i will rewatch this.

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players were really determined to win

i must be the only one who enjoyed this season....First of all, in this season the main thing i noticed was the skill level among the players was quite evenly distributed. Every player was ambitious to win and they all had their moments to shine. Like in every team game there were leaders trying to control but it didnt feel like everyone was just following them cause sometimes even within the team they betrayed each other. So this was something I liked.

I dont really get the "unfair" argument. the piece battle only came towards the end. Before that all the main matches were just based on strategy (like who solves it the fastest). I would say the only issue was because the pieces was the only way to move up to the dorms it was hard for prison ppl to make a complete change unless they become first.

but thats just how the game was set up, in the end the strategies to win and stuff was still quite good. Much better than season 1 where alot of players didnt really have much motivation. Cause in this season even the prison players were so good the prison matches were equally interesting to watch.

the hate for hyungyu is so unnecessary, like this is a survival game not a show to make friends lol... he used all his opportunities to his advantage. There were ppl who wanted to make him win tbh this portion is something i didnt expect them to outright say it...but i guess that is their decision

The prison team like finally decided to colab with dorm members and when it was going smoothly they are the ones who decided to betray them so in the perspective of dorm members their objectives just didnt align anymore

The prison team had really strong members Harin, Justin, Eunyu. with Justin he was really strong at individual matches which caused him to fail during main match. Eunyu and Harin are really good they should have tried to make the dorm team an ally earlier...

7High...idk to me he felt really egoistic. Never share plan with someone then when they dont do what he wanted suddenly say he got betrayed. Then throw the entire burden of eliminating someone onto someone else keeping his hands clean. Kept telling the team he was ready to be eliminated but last min suddenly pulled out to survive...like?

I watched all 12 episodes together and for me I enjoyed watching the gameplay by Hyungyu and Eunyu. I was amazed at how Eunyu was so calm and her ideas were really good. With Hyungyu initially i thought he would just play as a smart solver at the side but he really took control in the shadows and used every opportunity for his benefit. He was really well suited for "Devils Plan". One more player was Justin, he was also a strong player but tbh he was isolated in the prison (esp when they stole his idea) I feel like he could have done much better if the arrangement was different.

overall I liked it :)

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This series is a masterpiece

Okay not gonna lie, season 2 was not as enjoyable as the 1st one for me but this is only because my favourite players lost quite early in the game. Tinno, Ha-rin, Kyuhyun and So-hui were the best for me, especially Tinno and Ha-rin. However i can't hide the fact that Hyun-gyu was probably the smartest or the most cunning of them all. Both finalists deserved to be there. Also even tho i wasn't supporting her, Eun-yu showed remarkable tenacity as the queen of prison. And it's also a shame that Se-dol got eliminated so quickly. I think he would be a strong contender for the final.

I think the production made a wonderful job expanding and improving the system of how the game works, from prison games to hidden stages, everything. Also the games themselves were really interesting once again. I wonder 2 seasons now who manages to invent these complex games. Unless they already exist and I'm not aware of them. It would be awesome if there were merch board games from the shows available to purchase! I would love to play a lot of them.

I hope this show keeps going. This is my favourite gaming reality show worldwide and it's mot even close. I can't wait for season 3,4,5 and so on 😁

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Favored the early winners too much

Let me just say that I rated this an 8.0 because I just loved the games they played, well, most of them anyway. Also, a lot of the players were very interesting and entertaining to watch. I was not rooting for Eunyu from the start (I was on Team Justin when I found out he was in The Umbrella Academy, LOL) but watching her go thru all of the prison games was very impressive and found myself rooting for her to win it all.

Unfortunately, I don't think the writers/rule makers thought things through. It seemed to me that the winners of the first game ended up with a much higher chance of staying in the living quarters and reaching the finals. The main games heavily favored those with more pieces so this made it almost impossible for those in prison to improve their situation. Also, except for the hidden game, there was very little to no chance for those in prison to earn pieces. I mean, maybe they could have given them pieces after surviving their death matches? This eventually made the show quite predictable and, if I wasn't such a fan of the games, I would have dropped this somewhere around episode 4 or 5. It was also very disheartening to watch those with just a few pieces fight to win only to realize later that they don't have enough pieces to do so.

Hopefully, they improve their setup in the next season because I will still be here to watch it.

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Perfect display of society

Although I really didn’t like the extreme alliances between the smart-asses and the prison gang, I kinda felt like this was an almost perfect portrayal of an elitist society. The people who are rich and smart will always be at the top, while the ones who were a bit less fortunate as in they were too naive or not smart enough, they will be at a disadvantage… I think the divide between team HyunGyu and Team Eunyoung was too extreme!!! And from the moment that Hyungyu won the special stage at home we all knew he was gonna be the winner… Last season Seokjin was in a small alliance with only two people so he was actually in the underdog team but winning the hidden stage has given him an advantage even tho he lost all his alliance members. But in this season, HyunGyu was already in the big alliance plus he was smart plus he was always in the living room. HyunJoon was also in the hidden stage of the prison and he did make it far, but because he was in prison for too long he never got accepted into the living room crew. It’s like the poor boy who gets the scholarship and studies and becomes a successful person but the elite never recognizes or accepts him because he is from a poor background… Thats how the alliances in this season felt… I am not sure whether it was on purpose or not but I just thought it was very demotivating… The reality of it was too strong…

To he honest, I hope for season 3 they will have more games that will force them to play either alone or in new alliances/groups.

Also the fact that there was no group game at the end anymore and that there were about half of the contestants in the prison now made the alliances stronger too. The prison matches were fun too but I prefered the way it was in season 1 and I hope they will bring back the group matches.

Oh yeah, I think Sohee was the smartest in this season but I was so mad how she sacrificed herself, whether on purpose or intuitively because she is a woman and maybe in her life she was always degraded for being such a smart woman and made to conform to male supremacy, I am not sure what was going on with her but I got SO mad!!! And at the beginning I didn’t like 7high but the fact that he noticed Sohee would sacrifice herself for Hyungyu and spoke to her about it changed my whole perspective about him.

Yeah compared to season 1 this season 2 was kind of disappointing … Also can the next idol being featured on here be RM from BTS please? He has a very high IQ so I am sure he would be better at this than any of the other idols we had so far

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I couldn't care less about the final

Every time Joonyoung PD made a new variety show, there's a big probability that I will like it (I really love The Great Escape in fact). The first season of Devil's Plan is good, so that's why I give this one a watch. Out of 12 episode, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗲𝗽𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵. 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗱, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗜 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗻𝗱. Consequentially, when it comes to the finale, I couldn't care less about the last two players.

As a character, Hyun-gyu is really a strong opponent. Manipulative and nonchalant. He asked and he shall receive. He asked Sohee and Kyuhyun to side with him, and they did. He wanted to make it to the final with Sohee by keeping her #2, she just did without questioning why she should be kept in check by being #2. He just... have his ways. You can see this especially in the Halloween Monster game.

Sohee, on the other hand... oh she pissed me off but not as bad as Hyun-gyu. Simply because she can't ever stand her ground and so emotionally affected.

But that doesn't mean it's a good TV.

Sorry, I have to put out my hot take. It just so boring that we knew right away who the winner will be. Then again, it's a reality TV game show. So, he earned it.

Gameplay wise, comparing to the first season, I don't like how the prison thing is being set up. In S1, you only have 2 people in prison and yeah true that it didn't really affect things in the main game about the alliance and whatnot, but somebody that just out of prison could make a secret alliance in the main living room as they told them about the secret in the prison room.

Here in S2, it's so clear that the gameplay is all about underdogs vs topdogs. Ha... what a waste. As you can see, the change in underdogs vs topdogs dynamics only just begin halfway through the show and honestly, it's not a big change either that will give a good twist like riot or dramatic betrayal or whatever.

If there's ever S3, I hope it starts with alliance-based games, then a mix of team & solo games in the middle, and finishes strong with solo battles.

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i don't liked it....but....

i loved the first one....
but couldn't stand the habit of the Winner at all. He seemed so Psycho and manipulative the whole time, terrible. All this betrayal in this season was too much for me.

And that some contestants had to live for 6 days in prison and had to play until midnight, STANDING for hours, a second time, to get kicked out, a second time? and just only there? No-Go to me!

if you come up with a third one:
please do better and don't let them stay the whole time in prison so it's from the start, just like they feared, a "Prison against Living-area" thing.

I love the idea, concept and games. Hopefully it will change to somethingdifferent....... 🙏🏻🍀

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Fun Start, Flat Finish

If you’re into shows that make you think and mess with your brain a little, The Devil’s Plan: Death Room is definitely one to try. Honestly, I didn’t really get the rules of some of the games (they were kinda complicated for me 😂), but I still enjoyed watching because of the political tension between the players. The way they moved, schemed, and formed alliances was way more entertaining than the games themselves.

But by Episode 9, I kinda lost interest. Some players started showing their true colors, and not in a fun way. I was especially disappointed with So Hui—she felt so indecisive, always siding with Hyun Gu, and didn’t really try to work with other players. It felt like she was just playing it safe instead of actually playing the game.

By the time Episode 10 rolled around, I was just skipping through most of the scenes. The winner became super predictable, so Episodes 10 to 12 didn’t really excite me anymore.

Overall, it’s a good watch if you like strategy, tension, and mind games. But for me, the later episodes lost their spark. Still, the earlier part of the show was worth it for the drama and power plays alone.

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Some stuff improved from S1, some not as good as S1 - still gripping and entertaining gameshow!

I quite enjoyed this second season of The Devil's Plan. It improved on some elements from Season 1 while being less good on some other aspects.

The novelty factor is not there anymore, still some of the twists hit and are exciting. The participants are also more aware on what to do to succeed and collaboration, forming alliance is more important than ever. I wish we would have spent even more time following the bonding outside of the games because the social aspect is such an interesting part of the show. Some had more cunning social skills, some had clearly high intelligence and the best had it both

The cast felt more balanced than in S2 with less "free riders" that were just being carried by the overall group. I feel the ones that made it through the end truly deserved it. Like in S1, not all the games were at the same level of interest and if I appreciate the change in making both regular and prison games with high stakes, I had trouble to care about all of them.

I would recommend this to people that enjoyed the first seaon. It shares similarities but also is quite different for some parts. I wish the next season (if there is one) will manage to find an even better balance between social interactions, alliances building and games. It might be difficult to renew a third time the gameshow, to keep the participants on their toes, not knowing what to expect...But I still wish they try it !

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Haters need to touch grass

I think some viewers hating on this show shouldn’t be watching this type of show. Maybe grow up a bit first, so that you don’t feel the need to send hate to real people.

I think this season was wayyyy more fun than season 1. Of course I was frustrated at some players and found some situations unfortunate for the players I liked the most, but that’s why it was so fun to watch. And no, Hyungyu is not a psychopath for wanting to win. What did he do that’s so terrible? He never forced other players to do anything they didn’t want to do. And he apologized at the end for his behavior, and in my opinion he didn’t have to apologize for being intelligent and playing the game according to its rules lmao, he’s just way ahead of everyone else. He apologized because he knew the other contestants were a bit baffled and not rooting for him as much as they were rooting for Sohui. They’re all super smart and accomplished people, so don’t worry, they’ll be okay, it’s just a game lol some people need to touch grass because what if these contestants saw the comments? What about the production team who clearly tried to fix the problems with season 1’s dynamics. The cast was way better, more well-rounded and focused in the competition. If some people used their brains for critical thinking, they wouldn’t be hating on contestants of a GAME. Even players like Kyuhyun and sohui, who honestly frustrated me a bit for being emotional players, have their own reasoning and have the right to play the way they think matches their principles. Grow up, this is literally why we can’t have nice things. Let’s just hope the production team keeps innovating each season and is able to bring us more quality games and dynamics!

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