The Escape of the Seven was launched in 2023, has 17 episodes, presently streaming on Viki.
What occurs when seven (7) Machiavellians are stranded on a desert island and escape, solely to turn out to be keen pawns of a one (1) psycho?
Some seven-plus-one wackos work with one another and towards one another with just one aim: SELF-PRESERVATION.
♦ An Harmless is Falsely Accused and Murdered … or NOT?
In “The Escape of the Seven”, a younger teenage woman is lacking. Her homicide was live-streamed (utilizing deepfake expertise… CLUE!). However when the police get to the scene her physique is lacking, so her loss of life is just not confirmed. Though the alleged homicide suspect is on the scene and promptly arrested. The suspect is the younger woman’s adoptive father.
There are 2 questions:
(1) Is the woman actually useless?
(2) In that case, is the assassin actually her adoptive father?
The scenario doesn’t get any higher. Wish to know what occurred BEFORE the woman was shot on digital camera?
♦ An Invitation to a Celebration
“The Escape of the Seven” begins with the story of a younger woman with a severe coronary heart situation who was raised by dad and mom who liked her as a lot as if she was their beginning youngster. In the future her beginning mom seems with a tragic story about how she has been looking for her long-lost daughter. Her adoptive dad and mom launched her to the care of her beginning mom.
Sadly, neither the younger woman nor her adoptive dad and mom knew the beginning mom’s secret agenda and evil intentions. It seems the younger woman is only a means for her mom to get cash from her rich grandfather. Nonetheless, issues don’t go in keeping with the beginning mom’s plan.
Her daughter is an harmless nation woman who doesn’t know tips on how to defend herself. She turns into the sufferer of college bullies. The beginning mom had no “momma bear” instincts. Her solely purpose for making an attempt to defend her youngster was as a result of there was one thing she might acquire.
The woman is maliciously and falsely accused, expelled from a prestigious highschool, and attacked by way of social media by a ruthless group of trolls who sully her identify even additional and destroy her status. The woman tries to defend herself however to no avail.
The younger woman’s grandfather lastly will get a wake-up name and realizes what has occurred to his granddaughter. He does what he can to attempt to rescue her. It’s difficult. However her grandfather’s honest efforts additionally fail. The younger woman is presumed to have been murdered, and her harmless adoptive father was maliciously slandered, falsely accused, and put in jail.
What occurred to the actual criminals who did this to her?
Years later they had been invited to a celebration on Jeju Island.
♦ And Then There Had been Seven
Years later, there’s a occasion on Jeju Island, and all the miscreants who participated in destroying a younger woman’s life, are all invited. A homicide takes place and true to their inhuman and beast-like instincts, everyone agrees to cowl it up! They hop on a ship and head for a close-by abandoned island, the place they’ll merely bury the useless and return to the occasion, as if …
They bury the physique however once they return to the shore the boat they got here on is just not there. That’s not the dangerous half. The dangerous half is that “somebody” had laced their drinks with a hallucinogenic drug. All of them began hallucinating and killing one another.
By the point it was throughout, there have been solely seven (7) folks remaining. Everybody else was useless. As if by magic, a ship seems, which happily for them, was not a hallucination. All of them bounce within the boat and head again to the resort on Jeju Island.
One of many seven is a police captain who had been promoted to Commissioner of Jeju Island. That means? That means he is aware of all about police procedures and tips on how to cowl up proof of crimes. There isn’t a avoiding an investigation since a number of folks invited to a celebration are all MISSING! So the seven all agree on a “story” to inform the police.
♦ Does the Story Get Higher?
An harmless woman’s life was destroyed and she or he might or might not be useless. Seven folks had been all concerned. Can their conditions get any worse? YES!! Sure, it may. And it does! When folks willfully select to do evil, it by no means will get higher!
One factor you’ll discover when watching this Korean drama sequence is the lavish rooms the place these folks stay or work. The residences and places of work are so opulent and glamorously adorned. However they LIVE AND WORK IN HELL!
That’s as a result of when it got here to their minds they did their very own “inside adorning”. And it was not fairly!
Important Characters:
- Geum La-Hui (performed by Hwang Jung-Eum)
- Cha Ju-Ran (performed by Shin Eun-Kyung, “The Village: Achiara’s Secret”)
- Han Mo-Ne (performed by Lee Yoo-Bi, “Pinocchio”)
- Go Myoung-Ji (performed by Jo Yoon-Hee)
- Yang Jin-Mo (performed by Yoon Jong-Hoon)
- Nam Chul-Woo (performed by Jo Jae-Yun, “Alchemy of Souls”)
- Min Do-Hyuk (performed by Lee Joon)
- Matthew Lee (performed by Uhm Ki-Joon)
♦ Definitions You Have to Know to Perceive the Plot
To grasp “The Escape of the Seven”, the viewer ought to perceive sure phrases. In accordance with the dictionary definitions:
- A “Machiavellian” is an individual who focuses SOLELY on their very own pursuits and ambition, prioritizes cash and energy over relationships, and exploits others to get forward. They might lie, deceive, use flattery, social media, or any of the “satan’s units” which can be out there to them.
- A “psycho or psychopath” is an individual who ~ has severe psychological well being issues and who might act violently with out feeling sorry for what they’ve executed”.
My definition for each is a four-letter phrase: EVIL. A psychopath and a Machiavellian have the identical factor in widespread. Every part they THINK is EVIL! Their minds are CORRUPTED.
♦ It’s a Psychological Well being Downside? Oh actually?
Within the minds of a psychopath or a Machiavellian, they might draw the road between GOOD and EVIL. However they don’t! They paint all the pieces BLACK!
It doesn’t matter what they do and who they do it to … there’s nothing flawed with what they do. Of their depraved and merciless hearts, something and all the pieces they do … FOR THEMSELVES … is GOOD!
After all, if you CHOOSE to develop and practice your thoughts that means, is it any surprise your psychological well being is adversely affected? However saying they’ve “psychological well being issues” DOES NOT EXCUSE OR JUSTIFY WHAT THEY DO!
No matter a psychopath or Machiavellian does, it’s a CONSCIOUS AND INTENTIONAL ACT OR DECISION. They aren’t INSANE! They’re EVIL!!
An individual who turns into the prey of a psychopath and a Machiavellian … not one Machiavellian, however 7 of them … CAN THEY BE SAVED?
Viewership and Ranking:
My private ranking aligns with the Viki viewers. My primary grievance is that The Finish was so tacky. It was disappointing and left me unfulfilled. In Escape of the Seven, the viewer sits on the sting of their seats, hoping towards hope. Hoping for what? Two issues:
- Hoping that every one seven (7) Machiavellians, these grasping malicious sadistic ruthless pigs whose assaults on harmless persons are worse than being devoured by a wild boar … get what they deserve.
- Hoping the psychopath who’s main the pack of those wolf-ish Machiavellians … will get 10 instances what he deserves.
That being mentioned, no spoilers, however in my view, The Finish, was … eh! … so so. You watch it and decide for your self.
My ranking is as a result of there was a lot of motion, together with plot twists and turns, ladies who knew tips on how to scream, a mysterious deranged cruel assassin named “Okay”, and one sensible child who found out to outlive in a world of monstrously depraved adults. Even when I feel The Finish sucked, all of that stuff happening was value at the least 8 out of 10 stars.
Maybe, maybe, maybe. I assume that the not-so-impressive ending of this Okay-drama sequence was in all probability to put the groundwork for a Season 2. In accordance with an article by All Kpop, a second season is slated to air in the course of the first quarter of 2024. Let’s wait and see.
LINKS OF INTEREST:
TRAILERS/TEASERS:
Okay Drama World. “The Escape of the Seven (2023)|Official Trailer #7Escape #Kdrama #Trailer.” YouTube Video. YouTube, August 21, 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rg9vDvci2Q.
