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I started this Korean show thinking it was a normal series with a zombie outbreak while filming a gameshow and you follow the characters while they try to survive. Sadly it is not. It's an actual unscripted gameshow with actors playing themselves in a fake zombie outbreak with other actors playing zombies. If any of them gets 'bit' they then have to act like a zombie. It's so lame and annoying and poorly shot. There is a narrating voiceover describing what they are doing on screen. Why? They put icons over zombies heads like in a videogame, again why? I only made it to the second episode when they decided in a Korean show that takes place in Korea to add 2 black African siblings to the cast. Lot of that in Korea is there? So much for reality, but that's Netflix for you.
Unless you really like those awful fake 'reality' type shows avoid this garbage at all costs.

Score: 1

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Created: 09-02-2026

Wokeness 2/5
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Overall 0/5
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Most of the acting is pretty bad and the story is as generic and unoriginal as it gets. It's another rogue A.I. gone bad movie. It's the typical low budget badly made film, think late night 90's sci-fi channel. The fx are bad, the action scenes are bad, there's really no reason to watch it. There is a token black British character. Naturally the white female character is all over him and they hook up. They just must squeeze that mixed race couple checkbox in. There's some lite feminism moments but not too bad.

Score: 1

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Created: 09-01-2026

Wokeness 3/5
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Overall 1/5
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Group of 5 annoying social media twits consists of 2 white males, 1 white female, 1 purple haired Asian female and 1 black male. Checking some DEI boxes off. 1 of the white males is coupled up with the Asian female so you get the mixed race checked as well. No surprise the single white male is a thief and an asshole. The other white male is dumber than the females and a beta. The Asian female is a girlboss type. There is a scene that appears to set up a group of white males to show up later as villains. (I skipped ahead after giving up to check and yup they are)
The acting is bad and the dialogue is worse. The cg rats look awful and the scene is pointless anyway. If you watch this I hope you like cell phone social media p.o.v. with lots of stupid emoji's. Hotel is said to have been closed and abandoned sometime in the 80's yet the interior looks nothing like what you would expect from an 80's glam hotel. Everything is clean and there is no dust, debris, rot or decay anywhere that would be expected from a decades abandoned building. 40 minutes was enough to see this was going nowhere and I gave up.

Score: 1

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Created: 08-30-2026

Wokeness 2/5
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Overall 2/5
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For the most part this is a 2 actor film. There's a few others at the beginning but it's minor. The acting is pretty good though I didn't find
Egerton's villain the least bit intimidating or scary. He's just kind of comical. There's the usual poor lazy writing with serious lapses in logic
and characters doing stupid things. He seems to just magically know exactly where she is at all times. The scenery is beautiful, when it's real. There's a lot poor CG in both backgrounds and action sequences that make it look fake and almost like videogame renders. Honestly not much happens and it starts to get a bit boring after a while. If he really wanted to he could of killed her 10 times over but just doesn't, so there's not really ever much threat there. There's not a lot of woke here but the beginning has the usual feminist anti male stuff. All the men except for her partner at the beginning are bad and aggressive. The group of hunters that follow her and leer at her are completely pointless and could of been cut from the movie completely. They manage to keep the overpowered feminism to a minimum for the most part. While they never have her physically fighting him off there are several implausible scenes. The final half hour gets pretty ridiculous and could of been done much better. It's ok for background noise but that's about it.

Score: 2

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Created: 08-28-2026

Wokeness 2/5
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Overall 2/5
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I know this is an action comedy but man does it have to be so goofy. The action scenes are so poorly done and slapstick like it's hard to get into the movie. The lead is such a pathetic beta and for some reason the movie thinks just because he can't feel pain also seems to mean his body is immune to injury. The first kitchen scene alone would of caused some serious bodily damage and trauma. Don't even get me started on the ridiculous handgun in the fryer but it still works just fine scene. I can't count how many close up shots of handguns are shown without the
hammer even being cocked back. Police officers who can't hit targets out in the open 20 feet in front of them. His hand is melted off from being
in a fryer but still full mobility like nothing happened, shot in the arm same thing full usage and bleeding just stops with superglue. Just more lazy film making so common in everything now. Some minor DEI casting including the black female detective. The lead hero who works at the bank has no problem stealing bank money and gives it to the black store owner to keep him out of foreclosure from his own bank. The tattoo artist has a Nazi symbol on his neck. I called it quits at the ridiculous home alone trap house around an hour in. I really was hoping this would be decent but once again disappointed.

Score: 3

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Created: 08-28-2026

Wokeness 3/5
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Overall 1/5
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This is a 6 episode anthology series based on short stories posted to a subreddit. Sounds like a terrible idea already. Given there's only
6 episodes I'll do a short review of each one.

Episode #1--4 woke 0 overall -There is no reason for this to exist. There's no story here. It's a half baked idea with no substance, no explanation of anything and no ending. On top of that it clearly had no budget and looks like it was filmed in the backyard of someone's apartment complex. Then there's the blatant racism. DEI good black characters. Black characters are smart and non aggressive. White characters are authoritarian, dumb, violent and aggressive.

Episode #2--2 woke 3 overall--Appears to take place in the late 80's early 90's given the clothes and décor on the inside of the houses but there are modern cars everywhere indicating lazy filmmaking or general lack of budget. If budget is the issue than why not just make it modern. It's a basic slasher type story, nothing new but serviceable. Some decent gore FX as well. Woke consists of DEI casting choices. Lead is a Spanish male with 2 friends consisting of another Spanish male and 1 white male. Guess which one is the aggressive nasty bully.

Episode #3--0 woke 2 overall--A play on gen z social media obsession and fame. It feels like I've seen something very similar before but can't
recall where. The acting is not great and the story is very predictable. It's packed full of unlikable annoying characters and I would hardly call this horror. There's nothing woke but it's average at best.

Episode #4--5 woke-0 overall--A seemingly very conservative religious couple gets pregnant and he asks her if she wants a boy or a girl and she says I don't care as long as 'they're' healthy. A normal person would say as long as it's healthy not they. This is clearly meant to show what appears to be Christians as crazy. The wife when told the baby will not survive birth immediately wants to schedule an abortion. This would never happen so easily for what's supposed to be a very religious person like this. The husband is shown to be an irrational, aggressive, crazy religious nut while the logical wife is the hero who easily questions and rejects her religion. The acting is pretty poor the ending makes no sense and the FX if you want to call them that are laughably bad.

Episode #5--1 woke-1 overall. Some really bad acting in this one and another no budget episode that's half an idea with no ending. Once the 'surprise' at the end is revealed the entire story falls apart and previous scenes make no sense or seem completely impossible. Little girls only friend is Asian. The drugged out mom is violent and aggressive and the boyfriend? is a total beta loser.

Episode #6--0 woke 2 overall--I believe this takes place in the 90's but not sure. The acting is decent but the writing again is not great. The two leads are said to be in middle school that would put them in the 11-13 range but look more like high schoolers. The story is pretty basic but if you have the headphones on the wall for a reason why wouldn't they be standard use when you go to bed and not wait until something happens. Bad lazy writing. At least the creature looks decent.

Final thoughts--Overall I don't really see any reason to watch this. Episode 2 is the best of the lot but even that is barely worth it. There is a definite overall woke aspect to most episodes and they obviously had no real budget. I would skip this entire thing.

Score: 1

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Created: 08-27-2026

Wokeness 3/5
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Overall 2/5
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A Korean post apocalypse series where everything is a desert and highly trained delivery men go out to bring food and oxygen to people.
The Cg is sometimes passable and other times looks terrible but the acting is decent. The writing at the start already has issues though. There is a lack of clean oxygen and has to be delivered to people but everyone is wearing filter type masks that provide no oxygen? They say that the oxygen is full of pollutants and has to purified so then why not just have purifiers installed in living areas if simple basic masks work. Then the oxygen the deliver to people is in very small bottles that would seemingly last only a few hours, but the residents only place orders once they get down to 20 percent. Makes no sense. Action and fight scenes also are not particularly well done. Fights consist of 1 person fighting a group of people who stand around waiting for their turn to fight one at a time. Trained bad guys who can't hit people right in front of them with fully auto weapons while the good refugee manages to take them all out with a handgun. There is the usual badass female character who is physically manhandling and throwing around male characters. The entire theme of the show is generic dystopian cliché. Evil corporation and class system with greedy bad rich people and good noble lower class refugee's. The good president is female and the head of the evil corporation is male. There's only 1 season and the first episode was enough to know I wasn't interested in going any further.

Score: 1

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Created: 08-25-2026

Wokeness 5/5
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Overall 1/5
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Group of 3 couple has all proper DEI boxes checked, Indian female and white male, white and Spanish mixed race gay couple so they get 2 boxes checked with that one and the lone white couple. The gay couple is incredibly annoying and obnoxious. Yet again appears to be a thinly veiled excuse to preach about 'toxic masculinity, rape culture' and feminist consent nonsense. Like everything now this is yet another unoriginal rehash that's been done before and much better. Basically Stepford wives with a side of A.I. The acting is terrible and the writing makes no sense. There is virtually no worldbuilding or attempts to explain anything. Every single person here is a complete idiot and does the dumbest things imaginable.

Score: 3

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Created: 08-24-2026

Wokeness 2/5
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Overall 3/5
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Based on a book that is utter anti American, anti male, woke feminist garbage so I didn't expect much out of this. There is some of the woke holdovers from the book like the lead black smart female that all the white males are after and the uneducated white trash criminal lead male. There is still some writing issues that were present in the book as well and while the woke aspects are toned way down they aren't completely gone like some DEI characters and there is still some feminism present. The acting is ok, the CG is pretty poor but overall it's still a watchable horror/sci-fi/comedy that's miles better than the trash book it's based on but still just a bit above average.

Score: 3

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Created: 08-21-2026

Wokeness 5/5
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Overall 0/5
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Lead white male has a black wife for the mixed race check mark. The sheriff is black. Tons of DEI casting. All the black people are good and all the white people are evil except the white husband. Racist black wife says a small town is off because she only saw 2 black people and they were working the drive thru. She then calls the black sheriff an uncle tom and says he's on someone's payroll. Then a pickup truck with a rebel flag in the back almost runs them of the road. They get home and a bunch of white men break into their house and say they want them out of town. They than wrap a rope around the black wife's neck and look for a tree. This is within the first 10 minutes of this trash. Also of note was a the very beginning the white bad guys are shown attacking a house at night wearing all black with black masks and the leader shows up wearing a bright red hat. Pretty obvious what the on the nose messaging is here. This isn't a movie, it's woke political propaganda of the worst kind. The acting is as bad as it gets, the only story is black people are good and victims of the evil white man especially from a certain political side.

Score: 2

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Created: 08-17-2026

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