Pyramid Game
피라미드 게임Checked and re-read
A girls' school ranked by anonymous monthly vote, which is the sharpest structural idea in any Korean school drama. Ten episodes that treat bullying as politics rather than melodrama, so every alliance shifts for a reason and the hierarchy is always one vote from collapse. Bo Na and Jang Da A are both excellent and neither is asked to be likeable. It is hard to watch in places. If The Glory was too baroque for you, this is the cold version.
Every last Thursday of the month at an all-girls high school, the students of Class 2–5 cast their votes in a popularity poll. The results classify them into Grades A, B, C, D, and F. If they fall into Grade F, they become legitimate victims of school violence.
Hooks early Episode 1. The monthly popularity vote and the class ranking it creates are laid out immediately.
Where we recommend it
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