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Death’s Game: Episodes 1-4

Gorgeous directing, brilliant acting, and a fast-paced story, the first half of Death’s Game comes out of the gate running and doesn’t stop. A bleak tale about a man who ends his life, even death offers him little solace as he is forced to play a game as punishment for his sins. Will our doomed protagonist learn his lesson at the end of this twisted journey, or will he continue to chase after the things that brought him ruin?

 
EPISODES 1-4

Death's Game: Episodes 1-4

The show opens with its protagonist CHOI YI-JAE (Seo In-gook), an unemployed college graduate with a mountain of student loans. After seven years of fruitless job hunts, he finally calls it quits when he loses all his savings in a scam and sees his longtime girlfriend with another man. Scared of living more than dying, Yi-jae jumps off a building… and wakes up inside a private jet.

Thus begins the story in earnest as Death (Park So-dam) plucks Yi-jae from his way to hell and throws him into a game of sorts. As punishment for insulting her, she will make him experience 12 more deaths, but there’s a catch: if he happens to survive, then he gets to live again. However, Death won’t make these trials easy for him, and the first body he occupies (cameo by Choi Siwon) dies almost immediately in a fiery explosion.

Between every round, Yi-jae returns to a dark limbo where Death waits for him by the gates of hell, and try as he might to plead for mercy, his fate is sealed. With every new body, Yi-jae picks up tricks about this game, and from his second one (Sung Hoon), he learns that not only does he obtain the original host’s memories but their talents as well. Alas, his second chance ends with a splat — along with a hilariously dark ending — and our protagonist moves on to the next.

Death's Game: Episodes 1-4

The third body Yi-jae enters is of a bullied high school student (Kim Kang-hoon) whose original death was suicide. At first, this round seems straightforward, but nothing about these games is simple. Though Yi-jae successfully ousts the bully from his position by prodding a few teenage boys’ egos, his plan turns the bully into the bullied, and the outcast teenager kills Yi-jae in a fit of rage.

At this point, Yi-jae questions if survival is even possible, but Death owes him nothing, let alone hope. Rather, his suffering will only increase from here, and Yi-jae finds himself mid-torture in his fourth body (Jang Seung-jo). As a fixer for a secret organization, the fourth body stole his boss’s money as well as his lady, and his skills are unparalleled. After an intense chase through the city that ends with a rooftop jump into a swimming pool, Yi-jae manages to survive only to be betrayed at the end by the lady he saved.

By now, Yi-jae starts to see this game as an interconnected piece rather than separate entities, so he stashed body four’s cash in a secret location to collect in the next round. Death, though, enjoys toying with her prey and foils his plans with the fifth body (Lee Jae-wook), an inmate.

Death's Game: Episodes 1-4

The fifth body is an aspiring but poor boxer who took a bad deal for some cash. Taking the fall for a hit-and-run, the fifth body was sent to prison when the victim died, and with only four days left until his release, he threatened the original perpetrator for more money. However, blackmailing shady people only leads to more trouble, and Yi-jae fends off attacks from other inmates who want the bounty on his head.

Worlds collide in this fifth incarnation as Yi-jae bumps into the bully from body three who was arrested after the murder and currently acts like a psychopath to scare the other cellmates. Seeing through his act, Yi-jae smacks some sense into the bully and scares him into thinking that the boy he killed is haunting him.

As soon as Yi-jae is free, he retrieves the bag of cash and splits it in two, storing one in a subway station locker. On his way home, Yi-jae gets stabbed by the father of the hit-and-run victim, and though he survives the attack, his friend from prison comes moments later to finish him off. Rather than dwell on this latest death, Yi-jae focuses his attention on the cash he stored which he needs to get within four days. The clock is ticking.

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If the fifth body was a prank by Death, then the sixth one is a cruel joke. Yi-jae finds himself stuck inside an infant with abusive parents, and though people see the warning signs, no one acts up to save him. Powerless, Yi-jae dies that very night when the social worker sent to investigate the case leaves without questioning the parents.

Halfway through this game, the seventh body (Lee Do-hyun) seems to be Yi-jae’s best bet to redo his life. Not only does he reclaim the bag of cash with seconds to spare, he also gets a handsome face to boot. However, Death would never be so kind to our protagonist, and Yi-jae soon discovers what grim hurdles he will have to overcome this time.

While working at a café, Yi-jae meets his ex-girlfriend LEE JI-SOO (Go Yoon-jung) and learns that she recently debuted as a novelist. He realizes that she never cheated on him — the man he saw her with was her brother — and his own inferiority complex led him to misconstrue the truth. After reading her book, he approaches Ji-soo as a fan and an aspiring author looking for advice.

The two get closer as Yi-jae recounts his deaths as if characters in a story, but Ji-soo isn’t ready to open up her heart again. Seeing Ji-soo mourn his death, Yi-jae realizes the impact his actions had on his loved ones, especially his single mother. Throughout his punishment, he tried to tamp down the guilt he felt for leaving behind his mother, but every time he interacted with a host body’s parent, the longing and sorrow only deepened.

Realizing that he could die at any moment, Yi-jae wastes no time gifting his bag of cash to his mother, and in the evening, he reveals the truth to Ji-soo. At first, he paints his confession like another one of his stories, but the more he describes his love, the more it sounds like Ji-soo. He thought she would be all right since she was strong, but he knows now that he was wrong. Yi-jae tells her that he still only loves her, and in that moment, Ji-soo sees Yi-jae standing in front of her.

As Yi-jae says his real name, a bright light engulfs them, and their tender reunion comes to a screeching halt. A car hits them both — killing Ji-soo on impact — and Yi-jae looks up at the man behind the wheel: PARK TAE-WOO (Kim Ji-hoon). With mounting horror, Yi-jae realizes that this is the heir of Taekang Group as well the older brother to body one, the sponsor for body two, the client of body four, the perpetrator from body five, and now, the murderer of body seven.

Returning to Death’s door, Yi-jae glares at his captor and then charges at her. Gliding across the table, he grabs her gun and points it at her head. He asks if she is enjoying all of this and gives her a taste of her own medicine. The screen turns black, and a gunshot rings out.

It’s been a while since I last read the original webtoon, but it seems that this rendition is a relatively faithful adaptation with a few key differences. The pacing in the beginning is pulled almost straight from the source material, throwing the audience in the middle of the action and giving them very little time to get their bearings. Rather than explain everything upfront, the rules of this “game” unfold with each death, and I enjoyed how the show unveiled revelations in layers. The bodies, while seemingly arbitrary, actually build on one another and help establish the world as well as its rules.

The first body sets the groundwork and introduces the idea of the crystal (the object that allows Yi-jae to access the host’s memories). It also emphasized how futile this game can be and the importance of time. The second taught Yi-jae that he can gain the body’s skills, and it also showed the audience that Yi-jae’s personality can be influenced by the host — at first, he was afraid of falling but then turned brash once he received the host’s crystal. As for the third, the parameters for “survival” are widened and simply avoiding the original death is not good enough to beat Death’s conditions. This body also revealed that Yi-jae’s actions in this alternate timeline affects his world and aren’t isolated events.

Death's Game: Episodes 1-4

The fourth marks the start of Yi-jae’s counterattack, and instead of focusing on each body individually, he looks at this game as connected pieces. However, the show highlights his shortsightedness and depicts him not realizing the original body’s death nor the fact that freedom of movement isn’t always a given. Thematically, we also start to see the importance of money and greed as core elements to the show. Moving on to the fifth body, this is when the show makes Yi-jae’s selfishness more explicit as he willfully ignores the consequences of his actions, which ultimately lead to his demise. Furthermore, the fifth body reminds Yi-jae of his mother, and the doubts begin to form.

Out of all the iterations, the sixth body deviates the most from the rest in interesting ways. This possession expands the possibilities of Death’s choices and also introduces the idea of personhood. The baby remains nameless, and even in death, they become a cold statistic in a broken system. The sixth also builds on the idea of parents, and once again, pushes Yi-jae to reevaluate his choices and the hurt he caused. Lastly, the seventh becomes a culmination of these brewing feelings, and faced with his loved ones, Yi-jae can no longer run away. For the first time, he reflects and realizes that he had enough reasons to live. However, the moment he learns this lesson, Death mercilessly steals it from him, reminding both the protagonist and the viewers that death may come at any time.

Besides the lessons Yi-jae must learn from these 12 punishments, the show hints at something bigger happening in the background. These bodies aren’t just a tool for Death to teach Yi-jae but also pieces to a puzzle. At the center lies Park Tae-woo who appears to be a stereotypical rich villain with no ounce of morality, but it is still unclear how Yi-jae plays into all of this. From Death’s cryptic warnings, it seems Yi-jae committed a grave crime that caused his damnation, and if he doesn’t figure out why he is being sent to hell in the first place, all his efforts to survive are for naught. While the show is definitely dark and cynical, there’s also bits of macabre humor sprinkled throughout that bring in moments of levity, and coupled with some amazing performances, Death’s Game delivers on the hype of its star-studded cast.

Death's Game: Episodes 1-4

 
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I am yet to watch Ep 4, but so far enjoying this! It's fast paced. And it does feel like a game with 12 lives. All the cameo's are super exciting and Jang Seung-jo was so good in the gangster role, I want a spin off.
Even though you know death is around the corner, there are times when it feels sudden and unexpected.

I too feel that there is something more here that our protagonist has to figure out in order to escape this viscious cycle alive.

I wish this were a single drop, because it works much better that way.

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I really liked. I didn't really know what to expect as I avoided trailers, but it is certainly interesting. And they certainly manage to make us root for each life. I am looking forward to see how this will play out.

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Thanks for the weecap @lovepark this sounds like a great adaption; keeping the essence and adding in appropriate changes. It seems to be confirmed that it would have been better to drop it all at once as it is a complete story or the usual two episodes a week rather than this half and half approach.

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Not my genre, but couldn't pass up anything with my favorite Yoo In Soo who played the bully and once again proves that he is one of the most versatile young actors out there.

Also fun to see another favorite Kim Mi Kyung (yi-jae's mother).

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It's very fast paced, too much for me. I was just waiting for his death to happen, not really caring for the characters...

I just know that I need Jang Seung-jo in an action Kdrama now, with the same haircut and jacket!

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I loved loved it up until making Park Tae Woo the big bad. SIGH, now I just like it. All the actors did a really good job, it was really great to watch. Park So Dam is clearly having a blast and I'm happy for her. I look forward to the remaining 4 episodes.

My biggest gripe and this is with kdramas generally is the need to make the big bad psychotic or have crazy eyes. You can make a terrible person who is perfectly sane and just an awful human. The occasions when that has been done has always made for a better drama, but this is the 2nd time Kim Ji Hoon has played a character like this, and it isn't that good just crazy. Lol. Rant over

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Though my first thought was that Death sure had a lot of time on her hands, playing a lengthy game with one suicide victim, this was an intriguing concept, so I will definitely try to see part 2.

But I agree with @mayhemf this would have been much better dropped as a single set of episodes. I doubt my wife and I would have binged the whole thing at once, but watching continuously over several nights would have been more satisfying--the break after 4 felt pretty arbitrary. Plus, I'm never sure what will be happening in month--for all I know I could be playing death's game myself, and never find out what happened to Seo In-gook!

A random observation and a question:

The toughest acting job in these episodes was Park So-Dam's. From time to time the camera really zeroed in on her (admittedly beautiful) features, and she had to keep a perpetually blank and cold face while saying some pretty dumb lines. Death isn't too eloquent in this one.
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When did the vision of hell with black cgi generated body like forms scrambling over each other to grab a new condemned soul first appear in kdramas? I saw this type CGI imagery first in World War Z, a pretty bad zombie move with Brad Pitt doing some zombie acting himself, but I first saw it as hell in the Uncanny Counter. But it must have appeared prior to that series. Maybe in a korean movie?

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I don't think this place is hell. But I don't know what it is. Looks like an ocean of blood with scary monsters without eyes.
Death show him hell later. With flames. But we don't see what he sees. I found that clever from the director.

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Yup, Death doesn’t seem too busy, she can even read while waiting! The underworld is pretty lacklustre in this one..

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I think Death have ubiquity. She's everywhere at the same time. So, it's only one of her instance here. I don't know if what I say make sens. But I imagine while being with him, she also take care of all other beings.

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Yes, I know. I was joking, but you know, the idea of millions and millions of beautiful Park So Dams around is actually pretty appealing--removes the sting from Death a bit!

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I prefer Death from Sandman.

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Ahhhhh saving this for the new year! I still have 3 shows that I want to finish this year LOL

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Wow, I didn't know what to expect going in.
Some parts can be brutal to watch but overall it is a fast paced show which sucks you in the deeper you go.
The break is unfortunate as it wrecks the momentum and my need to find out how everyone is interconnected. This may backfire on them. The biggest selling point has to be all the cameos, it has been a joy to watch the different actors.

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scares him into thinking that the boy he killed is haunting him.

Which is sorta, kinda, almost true.

Meanwhile...

It's sometimes fun to think about who else could play a certain role in a kdrama -- and who couldn't no matter how talented they are. Let's just say I can't imagine Kim So-hyun playing Death. But Yu-na with a backscratcher instead of a gun. Yes, I could see that.

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If we are allowed a male Death -- I suggest that Lee Byung-hun (Mr Sunshine), with his unparalleled poker face, would serve beautifully. On the other hand, I can’t imagine that Ji Chang-wook (Healer) could suppress his charming smile enough to be convincing.

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I don't know how to formulate my thoughts. I knew this was an interesting idea and I'm glad that the execution is what I thought it would be.

I had a feeling the company exec was the big bad or may be it's better say that he was involved in all the misfortunes (except the teens).

As someone who is scared of flying, that first death (or is it a second death?) was extremely horrifying to me. The sky diver who went without a parachute was just... I have no words. That must be so traumatizing to witness but then it also shows the morbid fascination of people because they tuned in because of the possibility of the stunt going wrong and then how many people viewed a video of someone's graphic death.

I'm not sure what the teen life was supposed to show him. That life is unfair? That there's no one of beating a bully? That even when you win, you lose?
I really don't know how he was supposed to avoid death during that life. Was he supposed to transfer? Is it that easy to transfer?

I get the suicide = bad message but I always feel a little weird when it's just chalked up to a selfish decision. It may be selfish but it's also extremely personal and when you're in that headspace of complete hopelessness and abject pain & sadness, you're not thinking about other people and why would you?

I had to fast forward over the child abuse life so I don't even know if it was mentioned why they even had and kept the child rather than turn it over to an orphanage or something. People will say "there's never an excuse for violence" but "parents" like these are a VERY valid excuse. It's good that I fast forwarded over their scenes because I don't even remember the actors and I feel like I wouldn't even wanna see them in other works if I remembered them; like an *INSTANT* turnoff. (I've had that experience a few times lately)

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I 100% feel you about the whole "suicide = bad person" messaging. Like, where is the empathy for someone who felt so lost/lonely/hopeless/sad that they felt ending their life was the only way? I get maybe pointing out to him that his actions hurt those he left behind but this punishment seems crazy over the top. I'm still waiting for another reveal that he somehow did something worse(?) that we don't yet know about or that Death is using him to secretly pass judgement on our Big Bad. The latter feels more fitting, since he's a good avatar for the broken system that led to our hero's death in the first place. Or so I'm hoping. I may be giving this drama too much credit, lol.

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Yes, it's when you are past thinking about other people that you act and end your life.
So far I have not really seen something that alleviate the suffering. 5min walking hand in hand. Can it be enough?

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"I'm not sure what the teen life was supposed to show him."

That when you win, show some compassion.

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Bleak as hell. Was baby murder necessary?! The things I watch for you, See In-gook!

This drama feels almost more like a cool concept for a drama than a fully fleshed-out story. Might be the pacing, which at only 8 episodes felt slow in terms of story and character development. It was like episode one happened, and then I spent two episodes waiting for everything that came in episode four. It also might be the dialogue, which felt a little weak to me. Very Moving-esque in that regard.

I will still tune in for the second half to see how it ends, but I will be girding myself for a horribly tragic ending and have a fluffy rom-com queued up for after, lol.

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Nah, where's my full Jang Seung-jo as an Assassin drama, come on.

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I see we came to the same conclusion 😊

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I'm glad the recap mentioned dark humor because I certainly chuckled a couple of times such as after the fixer's death when he returned to limbo cursing the woman who betrayed him.

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The story is nothing new and I was expecting more wry humour, but the SIG, PSD and cameo actors are making the drama work.

The social message in the drama is also repeatitive because it has been done before in another dramas.

Also, the drama could have removed the baby abuse as it was excessive and uncomfortable to watch. People who are not ready to have kids should not have them at all and government should think twice before enticing people with "birth incentives" to counter low birth rates.

I am continuing this just to see the closure for the protagonist.

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Oh so that's why they had the kid? For money?

Did they have to keep it in order to keep receiving money? Cause I don't know why they just didn't give it to an orphanage or something

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Baby's dad works in child welfare center which made me think he must be aware of the know-hows for quickly getting such govt.schemes. Plus, his job would not make it easy for him to give up the baby for adoption or to orphange. Given the state of their house and expired baby food, they certainly are not rich enough to hire a nanny or afford day care. The mom also looked like a drug addict with her chainsmoking habbit rather than suffering from postpartum depression.

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Birth incentives are great though. Most people I know don't have kids because they can't afford them. If anything, there is not enough support for working parents. I am 100% pro-choice but there is no choice if abortion is the only available option.

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I am not talking about the choices, but rather the unintended negative effect of undeserving people (alcoholics, gamblers, organ harvesters etc.,) benefitting from such incentives. Yes, there are genuine working class people who benefit from the govt. incentive, but more often than not such programmes are misused.

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Definitely not "more often than not". The terrible cases are just the ones we hear the most often about.

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I cried when he was talking to the girlfriend and it was shown how she was never ashamed or embarrassed by him. I think he also apologized to her.

Sidenote: I guess again it's a cultural thing but I can't stand how invasive people are, especially work colleagues. Not only did they dismiss her saying she had a boyfriend but then they say she's probably just into superficial looks and says she should be into someone like her coworker. Then asked the coworker if he was interested in dating her as if her opinion barely even mattered as long as he deigned her to be worthy of his interest. Like seriously wtf?

How long were they dating that he didn't know she had a brother? I don't know how dating goes or develops but isn't learning about whether your girlfriend has siblings, early stages stuff?
(then again I didn't know my half sister has stepsiblings until this year so what do I know

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I'm also a bit surprised that after 7 years of dating he didn't know her brother. But that my only criticism.

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It goes to show how yi Jae was so self absorbed that he had not really understand or care to give attention to others. He is preoccupied with his self pity and inferiority complex that he neglected the precious people around him.

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Exactly! It really irked me that he didn't know that.

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It goes directly in my top list. Not the kind of thing that happen often.
The drama is made like a movie. Fast paced. I liked all, and my favorite episode, for once, is the slower one: Episode 4 is so high on emotions.

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On a morally-ethical level, I wonder how right it is to punish some suicidal guy. Dude worked on a part time jobs for seven years and was job-hunting throughout that time. He has suffered enough.

Plus, "Suicide is selfish" is one of those mantras that didn't age well. However, saying that it is wrong is also belittling what the loved ones of the dead people are going through.

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I was not sure about this one, but now I'm hooked! I laughed and cried. Can't wait for part 2.
I think Korea should have more dramas like this, because of high rate of suicide in there.

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I had just studied the webtoon version of this drama, and very curious about the huge star cast and their performances. When i started watching it, they had made some changes from webtoon but it was so fast paced drama that in a blink you will miss a scene as of my experience i was so eager to our FL( go young jo) , kim ji hoon and oh jung se , lee do hyun , ryeoun , i only started this drama to watch my favorite cameos in it.

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Whoa.
I just finished ep4, and whoa. This is fast paced and they did not put all the budget in the casting for the action scene are grandiose. But the next life is already playing, with more at stake and more emotions.

5 reincarnations, but only 2 "big names" remaining on the list. More cross-over of the lifes ?
What with the evil chaebol, is this really such an imponderable of kdramas?

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Was I the only one to think it bloody (in both senses) funny, rather than 'bleak' ?

It deals with serious themes, but had me laughing out loud several times.

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For example, the truck of doom moment was simply magnificent, and all the more so for the punchline being readily predictable.

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So if I understand the plot correctly, the male lead commits the great crime of suicide and, to teach him a lesson, Death decides to force him to live endless examples of life being short and pointless. Great lesson, Death! That'll bring the suicide rate down!

There is nothing - and I do not say this lightly - NOTHING worse out of Korea than dramas with the great social message that suicide is bad and you should not do it. Like, wow, revelation, show! Suicide is bad. Don't do it. That'll stop people from doing it. Societies that tell people that suicide is bad because you'll be punished in some karmic or cosmic afterlife way always have higher suicide rates than countries that say, "hey, we know people are killing themselves for actual reasons and we're going to address those reasons". But that's conservatism for you. Who needs to understand and help people who are struggling when you can just threaten them with hellfire? Because that alway works. It's marginally better than Tomorrow, which literally told people it was UNPATRIOTIC to kill themselves, like somebody who has lost all hope for the future cares about the philosophy of nationhood.

The biggest question for this drama is why the acting is so so amazing and everything else is SO BAD. I can't think of a single other drama where one thing is truly extraordinary and literally everything else is so terrible it's actually at some points funny.

Are the actors' families being held hostage somewhere? Do we need to rescue them? Blink twice if you need help, Ziggy! Blink twice!

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It wasn't the message of Tomorrow.

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If nothing else, this drama was a giant and elaborate suicide prevention campaign that was tastefully done.

With suicide as its premise, I was worried they would opt for either a dramatically tragic or a more cavalier approach. But they actually did a great job in portraying Yi-jae's struggle in life as a one-among-many realities of life in South Korea with its high societal pressure. The way life kept throwing these little curveballs (but all at the same time, or just right at the worst moment possible) made his decision to commit suicide understandable, even when I disagree with it. But then right when I thought I understood what was going on, the drama reminded us of the many different perspectives that we missed as we looked at the world solely through Yi-jae's eyes.

I like the careful balance between showing us that sometimes the system was so broken that it was no wonder some people were driven towards suicide (it was strongly reiterated in the bullied high-schooler Hyuk-soo's story), but it also showed us that everyone has their own struggle and that life isn't an olympiade in "who got the worst chance at life" (the contrasting end for many of the lives Yi-jae got to experience showcased this perfectly--be it a chaebol who died in freak 'accident', a hardened young man killed by the only person they trusted, or a helpless baby born to abusive parents). There's also a balance between acknowledging that the harsh reality made people only take care of their own individual needs, and showing that as human beings we probably should re-learn about sympathy and empathy in a world that seemed to get even more cruelly selfish. How recognizing small happiness and contentment that was going on in your life and be grateful for it might be the key to a fulfilling life.

I appreciated the drama's careful built-up towards (what I thought as) its ultimate message as we zip through 7 lives in less than 4 hours. How it slowly but surely showcased suicide as a desperate measure taken by people who were hanging by a thread, while highlighting that it was also a selfish non-solution to all those they left behind. Yi-jae's forced rememberance of his own mother he left behind started with the high-schooler Hyuk-soo who was a son of a loving single mother, much like Yi-jae's own story. The reality of his selfish decision to end his life without thinking of what grief it brought his own family was hammered in through inmate Tae-sang's conversation with his mother, and the cruel end of that life. All those realization was then brought to a head in the 7th life as model Gun-woo, where Yi-jae got to re-insert himself in his girlfriend's life and witnessed firsthand the revolving what-if questions that plagued both her and Yi-jae's mother. And the realization that he was responsible for that (more so because it was a death he 'chose' for himself instead of an unavoidable fate) was hard to swallow.

I'm excited to know how the drama would...

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... would change its focus now that we confirmed that almost all these lives were victims of a chaebol serial-killer. But beyond the tightly written plot, I'm most amazed by the way Death's Game delivered plenty of feelings with ease despite the fast-paced story and the parades of new reincarnation zooming through Yi-jae's punishment. It wasn't easy to do that with constantly changing leads, but the writing and directing was spot on, and I'm glad we have nothing to worry about in the acting department. Everyone is stellar and I'm looking forward for more.

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#gadis "If nothing else, this drama was a giant and elaborate suicide prevention campaign that was tastefully done." I agree with you. Very well said. Each of these lives are contributing to a slow awakening to the waves of impact his own suicide might have caused. Great writing. As for ep 3 & 4. ....The. Best. Chase Scene. EVER! What a thrilling ride.

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"Oh the things I watch for Seo In-Guk," ;-) I'm watching this for all the stars, too many to name.

The fast-paced action makes the show more watchable since the subject is so dark, then the show became emotionally intense. I'm ready for the next half of the show.

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