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The 8 Show korean drama review
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The 8 Show
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by Elena_Chon
Jun 16, 2024
8 of 8 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.5
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 8.5
Music 8.5
Rewatch Value 3.0
This review may contain spoilers

Repeated mindset of plot, not that unique

After watching Squid game, Alice in borderland and the movies Parasite and The platform (and other disturbing things) this show didn't excite me at all. It just depicted the brutality of the human kind under extreme conditions ruled by the power of money and "your death my life mindset" again with a similar concept. As tbh though if I haven't watched previous similar shows/movies I would've been more shocked with everything I saw and perhaps rate it more. The more you watch stuff like that the less you get truly shocked to the point of never completing them.

PLOT:

Most of the time I could predict the next move. I'm not minimizing the actors skills at all. They all made me feel mostly the anger of all scenes. The physical strength matters a lot as well and for a good amount of times is more powerful than the cleverness. What I got in the end is that we all were the audience and we all somehow were adding them more time on that "cage" bc of our curiosity of what's gonna happen next. So, if we all stopped watching the show from the first time a cruel thing happened then their time was over and they were free. Concluding, we as the watchers of the show somehow supported all their actions till the dramatic end. We wanted to help, we knew the answer of helping them and didn't choose it.

ABNORMALITIES:

How is it possible for them to be beaten that hardly and not have a concussion, an internal bleeding, a severely broken part i wont understand it. Its out of reality and dont tell me that the lady that was a nurse treated them correctly bc shes just A NURSE that the only do BASIC TREATMENT. This whole thing is unrealistic and cant accept it.
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