If you’re a Squid Game fan, we think we have a recommendation for your next favorite series! Bargain is a new Korean drama coming to streaming platform Paramount+ this week and it sounds really good. Here’s everything you need to know about the new show…
When is Bargain coming out?
The series comes out Thursday, October 5th on Paramount+, watch the trailer below…
WATCH: Bargain is the new Korean drama from Paramount+
What is Bargain about?
The story follows a young woman who is part of an organ trafficking ring, using dating apps to convince men to join her at a hotel to pay her for sex, before incapacitating them and selling their organs to the highest bidder. However, the great earthquake has everyone – from vendors to bidders and victims – all struggling to survive, not only from the earthquake’s rubble, but from each other.
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Speaking to NME about the show, director Jeon Woo-sung said, “All the characters in the show are thugs and villains. I wanted to make the earthquake a punishment for them, and I wanted to show how they would react to this kind of natural disaster.”
Will you watch Bagain?
Speaking about whether the series has similarities to The Squid Game, he added: “I think all Korean filmmakers think about capitalism and how in Korean society you have no one to support you and you have to survive on your own… I think that’s a perspective that all filmmakers have in mind and that’s why there’s that similarity. And, of course, we had to put this story and this perspective into a fun genre, which was hard to do.”
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The series has already received critical acclaim, winning the best screenplay award at the Canneseries festival in France, as well as the critics’ choice award at the Seriencamp festival in Cologne.
Who is in the Bargain cast?
Jeon Jong-seo plays Park Joo Young, and is perhaps best known for her role in Money Heist: Korea. Meanwhile, Jin Seon-kyu stars as potential organ donor Noh Hyung Soo, while All of Us Are Dead star Shin Jae Hwi stars as Chang Sun.
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