The 8 Show (2024)

Directed by

Han Jae-rim

Genre

black comedy, thriller

Country

South Korea

Length

1 season, 8 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 330 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Eight strangers enter a mysterious game show where they must live together in a sealed-off building. The longer they survive without social rules, the more their mistrust and greed turn them against each other.

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What happens

The 8 Show (Korean: 더 에이트 쇼) is a 2024 South Korean black comedy thriller television series directed by Han Jae-rim, and starring Ryu Jun-yeol, Chun Woo-hee, Park Jeong-min, Lee Yul-eum, Park Hae-joon, Lee Joo-young, Moon Jeong-hee, and Bae Seong-woo. The screenplay is written by Han based on the Naver webtoons Money Game and Pie Game by Bae Jin-soo, it depicts the story of eight participants continuing to cooperate and antagonize each other in an extreme setting where the game ends when a death occurs in a space where social infrastructure is cut off. It was released on Netflix on May 17, 2024, and received generally positive reviews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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