The 8 Show Episode 4: Netflix presents ‘The 8 Show’, a psychological game thriller show. This south Korean survival thriller drama revolves around a bunch of poor people who get selected for a unique money game show. The anonymous show offers them a hefty amount of money to play their part by spending maximum time inside an isolated house, how they survive the house and earns higher money prizes is the rest of the story.
Episode 4 opens with a flashback of the 4th-floor girl. When she arrived the place, she chose the 8th number card, when she passed through the curtains, she came back to the stage and changed her card from 8th to the 4th number. When she got inside the 4th floor room, she was very much disappointed. She called for a bed and it cost alot.
In the present, everyone lost their minds, and none of the had food for a long time. Everyone starts craving for food and water, meanwhile, the 8th-floor girl locks her door without sending any food supplements to the down floors. 4th floor girl begs alot infront of the 8th room, but the arrogant woman doesn’t open her door.
Many of them start showing health issues, one of them seeing hallucinations and Jin Su almost reached his peak starvation. 2nd-floor woman wants to leave the place because of starvation, but the 1st-floor man opposes him wish and begs in front of her. Suddenly, Jin su proposes his idea to recover from the crisis.
He accepts to store all the waste baggage inside his room. The 4th-floor girl also joins him to store the waste remains. After their discussion, they go to the 8th floor to apologise for their previous actions. The 7th-floor man stops them from going, he directly meets the 8th-floor girl and proposes the new plan. She starts talking like an arrogant psycho woman. She accepts their wishes and gives food to everyone.
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Everyone eventually accepted that the 8th-floor girl had the utmost power inside the house. Everyone starts laughing when she says a bad joke, everyone starts accepting whatever she orders them to do. They go to the next level to entertain the audience to earn more ratings. They introduced a new game and everyone started picking up a ball from a box, the person with the K ball is the king and has the authority to select others for games.
The 8th-floor girl selects the 5th-floor woman and 1st-floor man, she tells them to kiss each other and they successfully do it. On the next turn, the king orders Jin su and 2nd floor girl to make out but she denies it. The king orders her to fight 6th-floor man, they eventually make a serious fight at the pool. After some time, they both ends up in a serious situation and 2nd floor woman almost gets exhausted in blood.
Everyone seems terrified after the fight between two participants. They kept continuing their playes on next days too. One day, a 4th-floor girl introduces an electrocution taser weapon. Whoever denies to take part of the task, gets a touch of the taser as punishment. On the next task, Jin Su gets selected for the task along with the 5th floor woman. The king orders him to put his hand under the skirt of the woman. During the task, he felt uncomfortable doing it and took the punishment. When he got electrocuted, he peeked on his pants. In the upcoming tasks low floor people got punished eventually. Most of the times, they selected Jin su for the tasks and it made him worry.
One day, the 2nd and 1st-floor people tells Jin su about the betrayals of top floors during the match. The 7th floor man catches 4th floor girl when she pours a lotion on her hands during the matches to find out the king ball easily. The next day, low-floor contestants gets ready to beat others with their techniques. This time, the 8th floor girl gets trapped inside the task. The 7th floor man almost gets ready to electrocute the 8th-floor woman, but suddenly gets knocked out by the 6th-floor man.
8th-floor woman doesn’t want to be part of the dares, she only wants rule everyone, 6th floor is on her side and he says that the audience needs a plot twist. The 7th-floor guy spits blood on the ground and 6th floor man sits above him.
Overall the fourth episode was very boring. The show almost reached half an episode, still, the story still didn’t move forward. A simple conflict between contestants got stretched out for a bigger plot. The screenplay looked weak and the characters also had a big letdown.
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