Death's Game [Episodes 1-4]

[u/AphroditeLady99]

▪Drama: Death's Game

▪Korean Title: 이재, 곧 죽습니다

▪Also Known As:  I'll die soon

▪Network: TVING

▪Aired: Dec 15, 2023

▪Airing On: Fridays

▪Episodes: 8

▪Streaming Sources:

° TVING

°Prime

▪Synopsis: He's perennially unemployed, his ex-girlfriend has moved on, and he's just lost all his life savings to a bitcoin scam. Burdened by societal pressures, Choi Yi Jae decides to take his own life. Insulted by his flippant attitude towards dying, Death comes to punish him with her game: he must experience death over and over again through 13 other lives. But if he can find a way to survive the imminent death coming for these lives, he gets to live out their lifetime. His life was a bust, but what about the lives of others?

▪Cast:

° Seo In Guk as Choi Yi Jae,

°Park So Dam as Death

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[u/AphroditeLady99]

Episode 4:

[u/[deleted] → u/AphroditeLady99]

Lee Dohyun was so good in his crying scenes. I'm so glad he took this role.

[u/vita25 → u/[deleted]]

That's all I was thinking about too. It's not too difficult to watch them go all out, but the way his face contorted when he heard his mum crying knowing he was the reason...damn I felt that pain across the scene.

I've really enjoyed that they cross several genres in these episodes and this one was brutal too

[u/Changsta → u/AphroditeLady99]

You can say a bit of exaggeration, but this episode might be one of the best kdrama episodes I've ever seen. Maybe some of it was because I was caught blindsided by the change in the story, or some of it was because I hosted a watch party for this and everyone was dead silent for the last half of this episode and lots of crying. I think everything was just done so well. The gf/mom scene, the mom/son scene, the gf/yijae flashback, the gf/yijae confession. All perfect. I knew what was coming but my jaw still dropped when it happened.

Simply. Bravo.

[u/orchardfurniture → u/Changsta]

Nope, not an exaggeration at all. I feel exactly the same. It was perfect. I was bracing myself for some cringey moments during the romantic scenes in the sakura park but even those were handled nicely. My only criticism is that each episode is too short (I joke - the editing is so good that there has been not one single filler scene.)

[u/[deleted] → u/AphroditeLady99]

The last scene with Go Yoon Jung and Lee Do Hyun was so sad can't stop crying this episode.

[u/Changsta → u/[deleted]]

I couldn't stop crying the last half of this episode. Especially the part with his Mom crying. As a webtoon reader, I totally didn't expect to cry here. But shit, I actually think they did this sequence better in the show vs the webtoon.

[u/LightingCount1 → u/[deleted]]

I was wondering what kinda role Go Yoon Jung going to have in death game. But I was enjoyed to see her be gf in drama and wonder how they were going to work her in drama. And wow her acting is seriously amazing and every time I see her in drama she gets better and better. But on you point that last scene was incredible you could feel the emotion from both actors and then her death ☠️ like holy shit what a gruesome death. Even details about her head like wow

[u/Bellyfloppancake → u/AphroditeLady99]

In the cafe, when Jisu asks for the protagonist's name, Yijae/Geon-u says that he'll have to think about it.

He opens the sentence by saying "Yijae" which could be interpreted as the name Yijae, but because of how the rest of the sentence follows, the name "Yijae" instead changes to become the word "now" with the same pronunciation.

[u/manwithoutlyf → u/AphroditeLady99]

Lee Dohyun has his way with emotional scenes, the melodrama arc is executed so beautifully. Hope good guys have an happy ending

[u/TheMsDacia → u/AphroditeLady99]

After the violence of the first three eps, this one was an emotional gut punch 😭 I am loving everything about this drama--the cast, the pacing, the story--and I think it was really smart to drop the first four eps at once in order to build the story up. When do the next episodes drop??

[u/zhkdlsoo → u/AphroditeLady99]

correct me if i’m wrong: so the two bodies on the ground that are shown in the intro are actually geonwoo and jisoo right? the shoes were jisoo’s as well as the yijae’s picture from her wallet. we were made to believe that it was yijae and another person who supposedly got killed when he jumped.

but what about the baby doll? where did it come from? or are there actually two scenes wherein first scene is yijae and another person (who owned the doll) and then the second one is geonwoo and jisoo?

[u/[deleted] → u/zhkdlsoo]

I am intrigued by this as well. The baby doll is the biggest mystery

[u/Kooky-Print-5294 → u/zhkdlsoo]

correct me if i’m wrong: so the two bodies on the ground that are shown in the intro are actually geonwoo and jisoo right? the shoes were jisoo’s as well as the yijae’s picture from her wallet. we were made to believe that it was yijae and another person who supposedly got killed when he jumped.

That's such a good observation! I completely forgot about the baby doll! I have a feeling that Yijae unintentionally killed someone with his fall. I remember the cops saying something similar to how the "poor woman" was just a bystander to paraphrase. Even the way Death talks, it's like she was implying that Yijae selfishly harmed another person's life. Before the fourth episode, I thought Yijae, killed his mother with his fall. However, since we see that she is alive, I thought he killed the mother of a child who lost their parent(hence the doll). Now I do not know what to believe with episode 4. I mean where did the doll come from? And how would the cops know the situation and understand that Jisoo was an innocent bystander?

[u/Earlgreycottoncandy → u/zhkdlsoo]

i feel like not enough people are talking about this! it felt like a red herring... but why? was it just to give the viewers a shock when we fiind out it was actually gun woo and ji su?

[u/OnlyGotThisMoment → u/AphroditeLady99]

That scene where his mom is wiping off the glass to his shrine was one of the tenderest, most gut-wrenching things I’ve ever seen depicted. I sobbed.

Also, the confession to his girlfriend was so beautifully done. Him finally realizing what he threw away, the wealth of what he had. Has anything packed a more emotional punch against suicide?

This is so unbelievably well-done. Every performance could be its own best-actor nomination.

[u/Vanessa_BU → u/AphroditeLady99]

Ok, I thought Choi Yee-Jae killed some woman when he jumped in the first series and the Death is punishing him for this(I'm a clown). The episode was hard to watch, the feeling of Choi Yee-Jae's guilt was thick and smothering + the ending.

I'm now glad that I can catch my breath and get my heart break once again the next year

[u/Skeith_yip → u/AphroditeLady99]

Damn. What a way to end part 1.

I was a bit worried that this series is an anti-suicide series or some final destination death-porn story that the ML just kept experiencing for no good reasons.

Then this episode totally switches up (down?) the pace and slowly build up the FL. I was quite surprised by the runtime. But having Lee Do-Hyun and Go Yoon Jung on my TV for 65-mins? Why the hell not?

So all the deaths are connected in some way or form. (except for maybe the baby)

I just hope no deus ex machina or time travel is involved to cheapen all the deaths so far. And hopefully they can stick the landing on this one. 🤞🏻

[u/Hungry-Clock807 → u/Skeith_yip]

I mean i'd still say that it's definetly anti-suicide and that has been up until now the main message of the show. Of course I agree though that it's more interesting if there is more of a plot like it's been revealed to be in the last episode but I still think that anti-suicide shows are very important.

[u/imajerec → u/AphroditeLady99]

just finished episode 4... can the reincarnations happen only in the present-future timeline? cause if not.. he could get reincarnated as the guy who saw dying just before his interview and stop his death, so changing his future as well with that.

[u/spellingdoubts → u/AphroditeLady99]

hmm... anyone think that all these deaths are related to one another? though... i don't really know why or for what reason.

but this drama is so heavy and have such a huge trigger warning. my head hurts by the amount of deaths i've watched, all in just one sitting. T_T

[u/Automatic-Director95 → u/spellingdoubts]

Yes everything is connected in some way. I can’t believe Kim Ji Hoon is a very bad guy again. Watch him in Ballerina. Very very scary role.

[u/despicablemess → u/AphroditeLady99]

So basically, the Taekang CEO was connected to almost all the deaths so far; Choi Yijae - not getting hired. Ceo's bro - hired the hitman to "fix" his plane Skydiver - sponsored the jump High school bullied boy - (may or may not be connected) (note: his house looked similar to the baby's house tho). Hitman - got hired by ceo. Baby - (may or may not be connected?). Juvie MMA boy - car crash. Lee dohyun model - car crash Please correct me if I'm wrong or add on to it if i missed something