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A very well done bullying and revenge drama
9.5/10 is my rating. This is a 2024 South Korean psychological thriller drama with 10, 49-64 minute episodes. It is based on a web toon of the same name.
First I provide a unique synopsis then review.
Synopsis
Seong Soo-ji (Kim Ji-yeon) is a military child who has moved around her entire life and thinks she has the new student thing down. But that all changes when she enters an all girl school where the students in her class are playing a very dark game called the Pyramid Game. The “game” creates a stratified hieracrchy where those at the top of the pyramid can order and direct horrific acts of bullying and violence. As a new student, Soo-ji immediately finds herself at the bottom of the pyramid which means she is a target at the outset. Her father told her they would be moving on in about three months which seemed easy enough to survive until she became an unwilling participant of the game. To “win” and put an end to the “game” Seong Su-ji must figure out who started this game and why and among the girls around her, who all seem to be playing roles, who is actually good and who created and is perpetuation the evil “game”.
Review
This is a very well done bully and revenge theme drama. They mostly skip the romance although there are a few characters where something seems to develop. If you have read the web toon it sticks closely to that script with a variation at the ending. The actors they cast fit very well with the way the characters are depicted in the manga. I highly recommend this to anyone that likes this genre, is a fan of any of the actors, or are looking for something where there is little to no romance. I would watch it again as it has a lot of depth and complexity.
Spoilers
It ends happy with all major plot points resolved. Two aspects of the ending that I wasn’t as happy with are first, I though they could have easily made the relationship between Jo Seung Hwa (Jo Dong In), the convenience store worker and brother of the student severely bullied, and Seong Su Ji (Bona). And I seriously disliked they introduced two new characters, twins, whom the school was renamed after, who were suggesting they wanted to play the Pyramid Game. That was completely unnecessary. And stupid. First, you have Seong Su Ji in that class and she would never allow it to even start. And, the rest of the class has already seen how the game can be stopped. So, I think that the producers did that to open the door for a second season but a second season does not make sense with the same main characters in the mix.
I wish Soo Ji’s father, Sung Hee-Seok (Choi Dae-Chul) would have seen video of teacher Im Ju-Hyung (Choi Sung-won) smacking on his daughter. We saw him getting arrested, but we could assume that was for the cheating and bribery and perhaps allowing the bullying. But he should have been called out for the stuff he himself directly did to the students.
#PyramidGame #KimJiYeon. #JoDongIn #ChoiDaeChul.
First I provide a unique synopsis then review.
Synopsis
Seong Soo-ji (Kim Ji-yeon) is a military child who has moved around her entire life and thinks she has the new student thing down. But that all changes when she enters an all girl school where the students in her class are playing a very dark game called the Pyramid Game. The “game” creates a stratified hieracrchy where those at the top of the pyramid can order and direct horrific acts of bullying and violence. As a new student, Soo-ji immediately finds herself at the bottom of the pyramid which means she is a target at the outset. Her father told her they would be moving on in about three months which seemed easy enough to survive until she became an unwilling participant of the game. To “win” and put an end to the “game” Seong Su-ji must figure out who started this game and why and among the girls around her, who all seem to be playing roles, who is actually good and who created and is perpetuation the evil “game”.
Review
This is a very well done bully and revenge theme drama. They mostly skip the romance although there are a few characters where something seems to develop. If you have read the web toon it sticks closely to that script with a variation at the ending. The actors they cast fit very well with the way the characters are depicted in the manga. I highly recommend this to anyone that likes this genre, is a fan of any of the actors, or are looking for something where there is little to no romance. I would watch it again as it has a lot of depth and complexity.
Spoilers
It ends happy with all major plot points resolved. Two aspects of the ending that I wasn’t as happy with are first, I though they could have easily made the relationship between Jo Seung Hwa (Jo Dong In), the convenience store worker and brother of the student severely bullied, and Seong Su Ji (Bona). And I seriously disliked they introduced two new characters, twins, whom the school was renamed after, who were suggesting they wanted to play the Pyramid Game. That was completely unnecessary. And stupid. First, you have Seong Su Ji in that class and she would never allow it to even start. And, the rest of the class has already seen how the game can be stopped. So, I think that the producers did that to open the door for a second season but a second season does not make sense with the same main characters in the mix.
I wish Soo Ji’s father, Sung Hee-Seok (Choi Dae-Chul) would have seen video of teacher Im Ju-Hyung (Choi Sung-won) smacking on his daughter. We saw him getting arrested, but we could assume that was for the cheating and bribery and perhaps allowing the bullying. But he should have been called out for the stuff he himself directly did to the students.
#PyramidGame #KimJiYeon. #JoDongIn #ChoiDaeChul.
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