Starring: Ryu Jun-yeol, Park Jeong-min, Lee Joo-young, Chun Woo-hee, Park Hae-joon, Bae Seong-woo, Lee Yul-eum, Moon Jeong-hee
No of Episodes: 8
The 8 Show is a K-drama on Netflix in 2024. It’s about eight people who have to play a dangerous game in a strange apartment building to make money for a secret audience. The people in the competition live on different floors in a big room, and they are only known by the floor they live on. At first, they work together to make as much money and play as long as possible. But then they start to fight for power when they find out that the rooms on the higher floors are bigger and make more money. The players have to find a way to make the game last longer by adding more time to the clock.
The show is based on two web comics called Money Game and Pie Game by Bae Jin-soo, and it’s directed by Han Jae-rim. It’s a story that shows how society works and criticizes capitalism. It looks at how people act and how power works. Some people think the series is like Squid Game.