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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.