‘Escape of the Seven’ SBS’ cider revenge drama, will it work again?

[News Reporter Lee Min-ji]

‘Escape of the Seven’ continues the box office success of SBS’ popular cider revenge drama.

SBS’s new Friday-Saturday drama ‘Escape of the Seven’ (written by Kim Soon-ok/directed by Joo Dong-min), which will be aired for the first time on September 15, tells the story of the struggle for survival and bloody retribution against seven villains involved in the disappearance of a girl who disappeared through a tangle of lies and desires. It is a picaresque revenge story (a work in which villains are the main characters).

Meanwhile, SBS has received a lot of love by consistently presenting well-made cider revenge dramas with a unique and colorful worldview. Although the method was different, viewers responded enthusiastically to the exhilarating revenge drama that relieves the harshness of reality.

‘Beopjeon’, which started the year 2023 hotly, broke the cartel of ‘lawmakers’ (lawyers + mudfishes) who had succumbed to money and power, and brought excitement with revenge by punishing them with the ‘money’ and ‘law’ they pursued. Their fight against an all-powerful cartel where principles and laws do not apply, saying, ‘Justice that is not clever is useless,’ was well-received, leaving behind a message that goes beyond cider.

‘Model Taxi’, which has completed an original world view of a private revenge drama in which revenge is completed on behalf of wronged victims, is evaluated as a work that marks a milestone in the ‘K-revenge drama’. Following season 1, which caused a syndrome, season 2 also perfectly contained an exciting ‘retribution’ revenge and a social accusation message, and recorded the highest viewership rating of 21%, successfully establishing itself as a season-based drama. The ‘National Death Penalty Vote’ also throws up a meaningful topic about what the victims and the public want by punishing the ‘innocent devil’ that the law has not been able to convict with an unspecified number of votes.

‘Escape of the Seven’ continues the SBS Cider revenge worldview that clearly shows the pleasure of vicarious satisfaction and the catharsis of punishment. Writer Kim Soon-ok and director Joo Dong-min, the ‘hit makers’ who made the ‘The Last Empress’ and ‘Penthouse’ series successive hits, are about to make their debut. The revenge narrative constructed by writer Kim Soon-ok is the history of the ‘K-revenge drama’ itself. From ‘Temptation of a Wife’ and ‘Temptation of an Angel’, which recorded a highest viewer rating of 37.5% and received nationwide love, to the ‘Penthouse’ series, which caused an all-time sensation, the subject of ‘revenge’ was completed as a genre.

‘Escape of the Seven’ is a ‘picaresque revenge drama’ that puts the villains at the forefront, and is different from previous works. The seven people who survived after trampling someone cruelly climb onto the game board designed by the ‘Condemner’ at the peak of their lives and play a game of survival where they are deceived and deceived. The clever solidarity of the wicked to escape the bloody punishment of God opens a new world of picaresque revenge never seen before. Attention is being paid to what unforgivable sins are committed by evildoers who will stop at nothing to achieve success, and how ‘fake news’, which originated from selfishness and desire, will change the fate of a girl.

Above all, the passionate performances of the actors who attempted to transform themselves put emphasis on the picaresque revenge story. Eom Ki-jun plays Matthew Lee, the CEO of Korea’s largest mobile platform company and a punisher of evil, and Hwang Jung-eum plays Geum Ra-hee, the talented and bold head of a drama production company. Lee Joon plays Min Do-hyuk, a man living in Kim who was born without dreams or hopes, and Lee Yu-bi turns into Han Monet, a universal star with a fatal weakness. Shin Eun-kyung plays Cha Ju-ran, an obstetrician-gynecologist who knows where to turn, and Yoon Jong-hoon plays Yang Jin-mo, the CEO of Cherry Entertainment and a master of slander. In addition, Jo Yoon-hee as ‘Go Myeong-ji’, an art teacher who always lies, Jo Jae-yoon as ‘Nam Cheol-woo’, head of detectives at the Deokseon Police Station, and Yoon Tae-young as ‘Kang Ki-tak’, the CEO of Taebaek Entertainment who is kept in check by Yang Jin-mo, look forward to a world-class ‘villain character restaurant’. Do it. First broadcast at 10pm on the 15th. (Photo = Green Baem Media, Studio S)

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