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The Defects korean drama review
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The Defects
2 people found this review helpful
by introverted kdrama lover
Aug 18, 2025
8 of 8 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 8.5
Story 9.5
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 7.0
This review may contain spoilers

Perfect Genes, Flawed Humanity.

This drama was absolutely thrilling to watch, but also deeply unsettling. It takes you into a world where children aren’t born naturally but are created in labs through the fusion of a “perfect egg” and a “perfect sperm.” The sperm is selected from men with high IQ, strong genetics, or specific talents (whether athletic, musical or intellectual) depending on the kind of child parents want, just so they can look good to society (you know, brag about how my child is in an Ivy League school).

But here’s the chilling part: what if, years later, that child doesn’t turn out to meet those expectations? The answer is horrifyingly simple—they’re returned. Yup, “refunded,” like a defective product. Those children, labeled as defects, are eventually k!ll3d...luckily a few of them survived. But they’ve had enough. Tired of hiding, they decide to live openly, standing together as victims of a twisted mindset. They rise up to bring down the very organization that created them, fighting for nothing less than their freedom.

Watching it was thrilling(the cast really did an outstanding job), intriguing and refreshing, because the story feels so original, but at the same time it was scary. It left me questioning: could there really be humans like this? How far, or rather, how low can people go when it comes to pride, vanity, and control?

It’s one of those dramas that grabs you not just with its suspense, but with the disturbing moral questions it leaves behind.
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