A K-drama with a great cast and easily available on Netflix - what can go wrong? Dystopia!

A Scifi can built any world, but it still must have internal integrity. What have we got here: A comet strike wipes out most of humanity with only 1% surviving (which would equal the world's population in Roman times). Korea is a desert. There is now a lack of oxygen and only a wealthy, selected group has access to it via a delivery system.

The oxygen is delivered by trucks which are attacked by bandits in cars. These cars look suspiciously old, as if they are running with a combustion engine - which can not work, if there is a lack of oxygen. But maybe they are running on electricity (how is this produced?) or something entirely futuristic.

Oxygen is produced by plants and 70% of these are in the sea - oceanic plankton. Does a a meteor strike dry out the world's oceans? It might block the sunlight for a while and affect plant life and oxygen production, but once light is back, oxygen will come back, too. Maybe all plant life is destroyed, but then there will be no oxygen at all and no humans either.

So, there is a little oxygen here which means there will also be some plants - for food. If there were food, and the survivors do not look malnourished, there will be oxygen produced by plants. Plants also need water to grow and Korea is a now desert - has the sun dried up all the water? Humans also need water to drink to survive. If there is light and water, there will be photosynthesis and oxygen. Oh dear, I am going round in a circle.

I am not a scientist and I can tolerate plot holes in a drama to a high degree, but in this case I cannot overlook the faults of this dystopia which makes it unwatchable for me, sadly so.

my writer colleagues take is this is allgory not sci fi bc if they cannot explain it with real science you cannot call it science fiction and to apply a poetical brain when watching, bc allegory means a "what if" and it doesnt need the backing. If you add magic, it would be fantasy but I assume it doesnt.

It’s troubling to see Woo Bin’s character smoking given his health concerns.
Wish they had avoided it.

I am confused. Why do people remove the mask when they need to fight?
Is it for better visibility for us audiences :)

Well, at least it was short and wrapped up a single season because I certainly wouldn't watch 6 more episodes of it.

I don't even know how to describe it. It's not the worst thing a person could possibly watch but it's not something I would necessarily suggest for any particular reason. I'm sure there's people who enjoyed this and would rewatch or recommend this but I'm not one of them.

I didn't hate it and I did watch the entire thing but I'm just feeling like "well, that was a thing". The final episode really made me wonder if this was going to be another two parter because so much happened really fast and was also extremely underwhelming (to me) at the same time. The thing I disliked the most was the mutant deliverman's capture. To me, it was reliant on willful stupidity and that just grates on me. In my head I can rationalize it as he was just being emotional and reacting without thought but watching it play out just had me thinking "really was a useless death."

Oh! One thing that also came to mind is this is once again going to be a reason for people to be hesitant & reluctant to get vaccinated😮‍💨. (I'm American so...oh, the issues with vaccines).

I'm mildly curious the source material after seeing this version of the story.

Yikes. Looks like I'll be skipping this one. Was saving it for a binge watch, but I don't think I want to do that anymore.

Why is this show so dark? I can barely tell who is who.
Wonder if it’s the show, TV or my eyes 😳

I fell asleep twice within 30 mins of the first episode. Then i wondered why am i even making an effort to watch it.

The science doesn't make sense. Even worse is that there is no consistency. Someone takes off the mask while fighting, Someone puts it on - like is there oxygen or not.

But the worst part is that it is -------
Boring boring boring

This drama had different plots but never really deepened them like the mutant one. The young boy and 5-8 seemed different but we didn't really know how, why, etc. The villain was sick but again they didn't give informations...

There was the kind of drama based on action where is better to not think.

The best thing about this is its only 6 episodes and there's Kim Woo Bin. Might satisfy as a pure action binge watch but other than that it was hard to emotionally connect to or rationally make sense. It had a lot of elements haphazardly thrown in with no proper fleshing out of any so it sometimes just felt lacking even with so many plot devices in place. Wasn't the worst but definitely nothing to write home about.
Would give a 5/10.

I'm watching this with my husband right now and we're both enjoying it... but wow reading through the comments I was not expecting there to be this much hate for it haha

I completed all 6 episodes during the weekend and I'm not ashamed to admit that I enjoy it. I didnt leave behind my brain when I watched it, but futuristic (I'm not allowed to call it sci-fi, right?) or cyberpunk is one of my favourite genres and why not to an actionpacked show loaded with handsomes like KWB and SSH? 😂

I feel like Kim Woo-bin didn't do much here, just sleep walking.
K drama never excels in this kind of genre, any way nice try.
They casted all actors with dramatic eyebrows for reason lol

Come on, suspend disbelief! This is a sci-fi with a great message about climate change, about using social inequality to create division and how money/power corrupts. Well acted over a short 6 episodes. Take heed this may be a taste of our future the way things are going.