Reality • 2023-2025 • 101 min • Teen (13+)

The Devil's Plan (2023-2025)

Name: The Devil's Plan
Genre: Reality
Duration: 101 min
Cast: Seungkwan, Seo Yoo-min, Kwak Joon-bin

The Devil's Plan (2023-2025)

Overview

It's the ultimate showdown of wits, brains, strategy, and alliances for a chance to win 500 million won.

Starring Cast

Seungkwan • Seo Yoo-min • Kwak Joon-bin

Where to watch

Netflix

Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating

Analyzing...

Center

Political: Center

Diversity: Moderate

Family Values: Mixed

Viewer Rating

8.0

Overview

It's the ultimate showdown of wits, brains, strategy, and alliances for a chance to win 500 million won.

Starring Cast

Seungkwan • Seo Yoo-min • Kwak Joon-bin

Where to watch

Netflix

Bias by season

How we rate

Each season is analysed on its own. Tap a point to see why.

Season 1 of 3

Season 1

Aired Sep 26, 2023

PoliticalCenter: The show primarily explores human intelligence, strategy, and social dynamics within a competitive game environment, presenting both individual merit and collective action as necessary tools for success without explicitly endorsing a particular political ideology.
Social valuesModerate: The show features a cast diverse in gender and professional backgrounds within its cultural context. Its narrative focuses on strategic competition and problem-solving, without engaging with or critiquing traditional identities or explicitly promoting DEI themes.
LGBTQ portrayalN/A: The Devil's Plan Season 1 is a reality competition centered on strategic games and contestant interactions within that framework. The narrative does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes, as the focus remains strictly on the competition's intellectual and social dynamics rather than personal identities.

Season 2 — Death Room

Aired May 6, 2025

PoliticalCenter: The Devil's Plan centers on a reality competition where contestants balance individual strategy against group cooperation to build a prize pool and survive elimination rounds. Its format highlights incentives for cunning play without endorsing any ideological stance.
Social valuesModerate: The Devil's Plan features a predominantly Korean cast of contestants appearing as themselves alongside one international participant in a strategy-based reality competition. The series maintains a neutral presentation without any narrative emphasis on identity themes or recasting of established roles.
LGBTQ portrayalN/A: The Devil's Plan centers on strategic competition and alliances among its cast, with no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes woven into the narrative.

Season 3 — Dead Again

Aired Nov 10, 2026

PoliticalCenter: The series frames survival as a contest of intellect, strategy, and calculated self-interest, where contestants must weigh personal performance against shifting alliances and occasional debates over protecting weaker players.
Social valuesModerate: The Devil's Plan assembles a group of Korean and Korean-diaspora professionals for a high-stakes competition centered on wit and strategy. The series presents its contestants without any reframing of traditional identities or emphasis on diversity themes.
LGBTQ portrayalN/A: The Devil's Plan centers on strategic competition and interpersonal dynamics among contestants in a high-stakes reality game show, with no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes present.

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...

Center

Primary

Political: Center

Confidence: High

The show is a reality competition focused on strategic games and puzzles, emphasizing individual intelligence and social dynamics within a structured game environment. Its core subject matter is apolitical, as it does not promote or critique specific political ideologies.

Diversity: Moderate

Confidence: High

This South Korean reality competition features a cast that reflects its regional origin, presenting visible diversity from a global standpoint without engaging in explicit recasting of traditionally white roles. The narrative focuses on competitive gameplay and does not incorporate explicit critiques of traditional identities or strong DEI themes.

Secondary

Family Values: Mixed

Confidence: High

The show is a reality competition focused on individual strategy and games, and as such, it does not portray family units or family-life norms within its narrative.

LGBTQ: N/A

Confidence: High

The Devil's Plan, a reality competition show, does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative is entirely focused on strategic gameplay and intellectual challenges, with no elements related to queer identity or experiences. Therefore, there is no portrayal to evaluate.

Trans: N/R

There is not enough publicly available information for AI to assess this category for this movie.

Female Combat: N/R

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

Gender Swap: No

Confidence: High

The Devil's Plan is a reality competition show featuring real contestants, not fictional characters adapted from prior source material or historical figures. Therefore, the concept of a 'gender swap' as defined does not apply.

Race Swap: No

Confidence: High

The Devil's Plan is a South Korean reality competition show featuring real individuals, not fictional characters adapted from source material or historical figures. The concept of a 'race swap' does not apply as there are no pre-established canonical races for its participants.

Viewer Rating Breakdown

8.0

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB

8.3

The Movie Database

7.6

Critic Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes

N/A

Metacritic

N/A