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Karma korean drama review
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Karma
94 people found this review helpful
by Cora
Apr 4, 2025
6 of 6 episodes seen
Completed 7
Overall 8.5
Story 8.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 7.5

Deception, Betrayal, and Karmic Doom

Karma is a crime thriller, yes. But more than that, it is a slow, merciless descent into the inescapable consequences of human greed, desperation, and revenge.


Rather than following a singular, linear plotline, Karma constructs a mosaic of six intertwined lives, each thread weaving a tighter, more suffocating knot around the next. What begins as seemingly separate tragedies: crippling debt, an accidental killing, an unhealed past, gradually and methodically converges into something far darker than anyone could have anticipated.

At first, the show might give the impression of being an anthology, as each early episode focuses on different characters with narratives that appear self-contained. However, by the third episode, the true nature of the series emerges, the realization that these stories are not isolated events but rather fragments of a much larger and deeply interwoven nightmare.

Each character is more desperate than the last, and each possesses a dangerously flexible morality. Their choices ripple outward, affecting one another in unexpected ways. Even as they attempt to escape their fates, the past has a way of creeping back, ensuring that every action, no matter how seemingly small, has devastating consequences.

The beauty of Karma lies in its storytelling precision. This is not a series of twists for the sake of shock. Every turn, every betrayal, every revelation is earned. Just when you think you’ve grasped the full picture, you suddenly realize you’ve been looking at it from the wrong angle the entire time.

At its core, Karma reveals the gradual desensitization to violence. The characters begin hesitant, fearful of what they are capable of. But as time passes, that hesitation fades. Violence begets greater violence, and soon, the line between necessity and cruelty blurs.

This is not a drama to be watched passively. It is a drama that demands your full attention, your patience, and your willingness to be drawn into its suffocating world.

It is for the people who crave stories that leave a mark, stories that challenge and haunt, stories that unravel like a beautifully constructed nightmare.
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