Pride crushed by ‘Lovers’, will ‘Escape of the Seven’ save SBS’s face… First broadcast on the 15th

[OSEN=Reporter Jang Woo-young] ‘Escape of the Seven’ continues the box office success of SBS’ popular cider revenge drama.

SBS’ new Friday-Saturday drama ‘Escape of the Seven’ (written by Soon-ok Kim, directed by Dong-min Joo, produced by Chorokbaem Media and Studio S), which will be aired for the first time on the 15th, follows the struggle for survival of seven villains involved in the disappearance of a girl who disappeared through a tangle of lies and desires. It is a picaresque revenge drama depicting bloody retribution against them.

Drama fans’ expectations are high for the strong return of writer Kim Soon-ok and director Joo Dong-min, the ‘hit makers’ who made the ‘The Last Empress’ and ‘Penthouse’ series successive hits. Also, attention is being paid to the extraordinary acting transformation of actors who will create the greatest villains of all time, such as Um Ki-jun, Hwang Jung-eum, Lee Joon, Lee Yoo-bi, Shin Eun-kyung, Yoon Jong-hoon, Jo Yoon-hee, and Jo Jae-yoon.

Meanwhile, SBS has received a lot of love by consistently presenting ‘well-made’ cider revenge dramas with a unique and colorful world view. Although the method was different, viewers responded enthusiastically to the exhilarating revenge drama that relieves the harshness of reality. ‘An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’ is a revenge story that has evolved in various ways, such as personal revenge and proxy revenge, and the ‘SBS-type revenge worldview’ that created a dark hero who inflicts merciless punishment on evildoers for whom the correct method does not work, is a story that is loved every time. The work attracted attention.

‘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.

An absolute powerhouse enters the SBS Cider revenge worldview, which 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. Author Kim Soon-ok has firmly established her own worldview, to the point where it is said that ‘Kim Soon-ok is the genre.’ It has penetrated the times with an unimaginable twist, a rapid development that maximizes the pleasure of the genre, and a dense infusion of the subject of revenge into the secret struggle of a group of people with explicit desires.

While expectations are rising to see what kind of sensation the ‘anti-war artists’ who opened a new world of K-revenge dramas will create, ‘Escape of the Seven’ differs from previous works in that it is a ‘picaresque revenge drama’ that puts the villains at the forefront. 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. ‘Queen Soon-ok’ shows more than you can imagine, what are the unforgivable sins committed by evildoers who will stop at nothing to achieve success, and how ‘fake news’, which started out of selfishness and desire, will change the fate of a girl. This is why the evolved revenge drama of ‘is awaited.

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.

Meanwhile, SBS’ new Friday-Saturday drama ‘Escape of the Seven’ will premiere at 10 p.m. on the 15th. /elnino8919@osen.co.kr