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Ah, sorry, I seem to have missed the other comments. Thanks for explaining the intention behind the post to me.

I don't think so. By friend I meant the male lead.

While I do not disagree with what you said, I don't understand how it's applicable to what happened in the drama. Are you saying that the female lead not running away (to survive or ask for help) while her friend is in distress is wrong? I can't see running away while your friend is fighting someone as something a good person can do, even if that person has a weapon. I would actually prefer to die with my friend than live a life where I turned my back on someone I care about just to survive. Going to get some help is not an option either since she didn't have time for that, her friend would've been already be dead by the time someone came to help.

I was thinking of dropping this in the first episode, until I saw the epilogue.. Now I'm watching the series mostly for its epilogues (and Kim Seon Ho's smile).

If anyone read the webtoon and wants to talk about it here, please post a comment that says you will be posting spoilers from the webtoon then reply to your own post with the spoilers. I keep opening spoiler tags thinking it's spoilers for the 4 episodes that have already aired but get spoilers from the webtoon instead. ^^"
Also note that dramas based on webtoons may not follow the webtoons entirely. If it happened in the webtoon, it might not happen in the drama, but if it did, you might end up ruining someone else's experience.

The notes her cells posted says that she doesn't want to commit but if she ever did she wants to be with Gu Woong. It means that she wants to keep him as her safety net, and she wants him to be available whenever she decides that she wants to get married. That's why she is subtle in sending him signals. She knows she would look bad if she kept him from dating, so she confuses him with her mixed signals so that he doesn't pick someone else and thinks it was his own decision to wait for her.

Nothing we haven't seen before but it's really fun to watch. It's a makjang drama with comedy and some little action. I would say it reminds me of The Fiery Priest but with a female lead instead.

I didn't watch those. Thank you for the recommendation. I gave up searching for KDramas for women reaching 30 or in their early thirties because there are barely any. Female leads are usually struggling with marriage life in their mid to late thirties, or youngsters looking for casual dating, and I'm past the phase where this kind of dramas make my heart flutter, it's just getting annoying at this point, that's why I resorted to action/thriller dramas instead.

I thought it would be silly but it turned out to be more mature than I thought. I really like it so far. The female lead is as relatable to me as the female lead in Another Oh Hae Young, I rarely find female leads in KDrama relatable. They are usually either too young or too old. I fall into the awkward age group that is deemed too boring for TV.

No.

I get what you meant now, and I agree with you but I think it’s more of the writers’ fault. They wanted to show some nice people to reflect on reality but their participation in the game itself isn’t what a nice person would typically do, but you could say he is a conflicted character to excuse his behavior. I also don’t think he really grasped what it meant to participate, he kept talking about winning together and sharing the prize money but that wasn’t an option in the game.

You can see the man fully nude from behind. There are also some real nude people lying around as "art objects", all from behind.

I don't know why some of them have this idea that they can win together when that isn't a possible outcome in the game, since the game cannot be stopped unless majority voted to stop it, and if they did the money goes to the dead ones. There is no possible outcome where two can share the prize money unless one of them is dead and the other gives their share to their family.

There is male nudity + (same-sex) sexual harassment in the 7th episode.

I don't agree that the MC has no sense of reality. He just has a different type of character than what you find relatable. Fact is that there are those types of people like Park Hae Soo's character who put themselves before others and think that their lives matter the most, and there are those like Lee Jeong Jae's character who think every life matters and hesitate when they find themselves choosing between their life and others' life, they are choosing between death and living a life where they killed someone after all, so it's not an easy choice for everyone. There are also those who don't value their life at all like the people who chose to sacrifice themselves without hesitation and the people who chose suicide. They are all real people, regardless of how different they perceive reality.

The first episode stressed me out even though I knew what was going to happen. I think I need sometime to pull myself together before watching the second episode. Now I wonder if 40 million dollars was worth it, it seems insignificant when you know what at stake.

I'm almost sure he didn't. To act that clueless, one must be one hella of an actor, and I don't think Gary is that good. He easily gets caught when he is lying.

If you are afraid that if you didn't like the first episodes you will not continue watching the show, pick an episode that is a fan-favorite and you will find plenty of ranking lists out there. Most liked episodes aired between 2011-2015. But I do recommend that you start from the beginning and give it time, it doesn't need much time to get into it, I personally got really into it starting from the 19th episode. You will find that it's worth it to start from the 1st episode to watch the members grow into their characters, since you will end up going back to earlier episodes anyway.

Good drama, but beware that there is sexual harassment (verbal and physical), male nudity and suggested masturbation. I wasn't expecting to see that in a Korean drama.

Not really.