Battle of Fates (2026)

A survival show for shaman psychics? SO fascinating and fun!

I love getting my fortune told, but at the same time I usually do it just for fun and am not a total believer. But this show definitely made me think twice.

THE GOOD:
1) Fascinating to watch the shamans get the details right, especially if more than one agree on the details
2) The battle where they read each other or the celebrities fortunes. Man, I SO WANTED to book one of them to read my fortune!
3) Can be a bit catty but also supportive for what seems like a lonely job. That supportive element was nice to see
4) It's fun when I also was able to "predict" the right answer

THE BAD:
1) The judge panel's overreactions especially Park Nara. She annoyed the hell out of me with her over the top gasps. IMO the judges' whisperings and expressions helped guide shamans to know if they were on the right track and would help others also guess similarly. That's how fake conmen can read their clients. The judges should have had neutral expressions or be behind a screen.
2) Severely edited to limit the times the shamans were wrong. Obviously if the shamans were wrong too much, viewers would lose interest in the show cuz who would want to watch frauds. The PDs would have a hard time casting a S2 and probably would face defamation suits so the editing definitely sheltered in favor of the contestants.
3) The last episodes with the shaman rituals were in poor taste imo. It felt like fake acting, taking advantage of grieving people.

Throughout the show, I was so entertained and slowly questioned if there might be something to this. But then a part of me also felt like it'd be so easy to feed info to the shamans or it being scripted or if it's a small community, they might all know each other's past already. Also, I question why would ghosts know the future? Is it really spirits they are tapping into or maybe they are accessing a part of the brain that can pick up subconscious cues better and faster than the average person. Only time will tell if future predictions are real, but regardless of my doubts, I was thoroughly entertained and would def watch s2 if it comes out!

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So fake

Things I liked

1 The premise was interesting and I'm open to things like that so I wanted to watch and be surprised in a good way.

Things I hated

1 The panel. They were all blithering idiots that had never constructive to say and if you ask me they all played a role and I find this despicable.

2 The so called shamans and tarot readers and the whole bunch of Pythias. Not even one passed the sniff test. I'm someone who is interested in all these things and read gazillions of things about how it works and I can say without any doubt that not only this was scripted but it was badly scripted. The tests were ridiculous and an insult to my intelligence. If they really wanted to test them there were better ways and in France they did that in a much more objective and scientific way. This series was a bunch of nonsense and I'm vexed right now to having waste my time watching people try to fool us. Although I don't blame them, they wanted exposition and they had it. When I think that here are people who were fooled and praise their performances I'm livid. This is the reason the world is in such pitiful state. That conmen and women make us believe in whatever they sell. Shame on everyone involved in this scam.

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