The 8 Show Episode 5: Based on Bae Jin Soo’s webtoons “Money Game” and “Pie Game”, Netflix released eight episodes Korean game thriller drama “The 8 Show“. 8 persons who don’t know each, other’s names are locked inside a building with 8 rooms. They live there and play the game to earn money, their time is the money.
As they start to make entertainment to the viewers the time gets extended. So they split in teams and fight on each other to make the show interesting.
Episode 5 started with the 6th room guy’s flashback of coming into the game. Cut to the current situation, the 7th room guy lying on the ground with blood. They took him to the 8th room. The 7th room guy was given a choice to team up with them and stop supporting the other team. While the lower team was at the hall they saw the upper team coming down, also they noticed the 6th room guy holding his hand on 7th room guy’s shoulder.
Now they have teamed up together while betraying the lower team. The upper team made a new plan to lower team. They said from today onwards lower team should work for them. Only the lower team will work while the upper team sits idle. The 7th room guy told the rules to the lower team. They need to work 3 hours a day to earn one coin. If worked 6 hours they will get 2 coins. With these coins, they can get food or water. With one coin they only get water.
Previous Episode: The 8 Show Episode 4 Recap and Explained
The lower team said this is unacceptable as everyone gets money so all need to work. But the 6th room guy is acting rudely on them by beating lower team members. When 2nd room person tried to fight the 6th room guy, but 6th room guy shot her with the electric gun. 2nd room girl fell down with electricity. 1st room guy tried to help her but 6th room guy beat him and squeezed his legs. Also, 3rd room guy got hit too. Finally, the lower team agreed on their proposals. The 7th room guy explained lower team about the rules and instructions. They need to pick a ball and it decides what game they need to play today.
There will be one winner in the end. 3rd room guy was called to take the ball first. When he took the ball it had “hide and seek” written on it. The 7th room guy told them to pick an option from the options he gave which are eye, tongue, leg, and hand. Each one chooses differently. After that, they were tied based on the options they chose.
The game started and they tried to hide. The rule is if 6th room guy hits a player that player will be out of the game. 6th room guy chased each person and hit them very badly. There was full blood coming from them. In the end 3rd room guy won the game. Also, they were asked to write a number in the end so that it won’t go above nine, if it goes above nine they won’t get coins. The next day they played another game and they needed to beat by swinging the bat.
The game continued for days. The lower team got frustrated after all these days of slavery and beatings. One day after heavy work they didn’t get any coins. The 4 got frustrated and didn’t go to room. They 4 told each other not to go. In the end upper team provoked them that if any one person got their room in a minute they will get ten coins. As the 5th room lady is diabetic she came forward and took the coins.
Days passed, and the lower team started to make a plan to lure 6th room guy into first room and beat him. They planned and tested this by going inside the lift to a first room down. It was success and after testing 7th room guy told them a hint that they can hear the sound. 7th guy was fixing the gun in the 8th room. There was a sound from 1st floor that the first room guy was crying of stomach pain. 6th room guy got a doubt in that approach and told 8th room girl to hold the gun as a backup.
They went below and saw first room guy lying down crying while his door was open. When the 6th room guy entered inside the 2nd room girl and 3rd room guy hit the 6th room guy. They fell down fighting each other inside the room while the 8th room girl was near the door with a gun. When they tried to lock the door she pointed the gun at them. But as a surprise, the gun was emptied before by 7th room guy. The lower group got to know that the gun is empty and started beating the 6th room guy again.
Overall the episode was disturbing because of the slavery scenes and violence scenes. As they fought back now what happens next will be interesting to see.
Watch On – Netflix
