7.7
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
The Price of Confession (2025)
The Price of Confession (2025)
Overview
The Price of Confession is a 2025 South Korean mystery thriller series directed by Lee Jung-hyo. Artist's wife An Yun-su (Jeon Do-yeon) faces accusations of his murder and receives an offer from enigmatic Mo-eun (Kim Go-eun) to prove her innocence by committing another killing, drawing in detective Baek Dong-hoon (Park Hae-soo).
Starring Cast
Where to watch
NetflixRating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: Moderate
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
7.7
Overview
The Price of Confession is a 2025 South Korean mystery thriller series directed by Lee Jung-hyo. Artist's wife An Yun-su (Jeon Do-yeon) faces accusations of his murder and receives an offer from enigmatic Mo-eun (Kim Go-eun) to prove her innocence by committing another killing, drawing in detective Baek Dong-hoon (Park Hae-soo).
Starring Cast
Where to watch
NetflixDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The series critiques systemic flaws in the justice system, including biased judgments and failures to protect sexual violence victims, through its narrative of wrongful accusation and revenge. This focus on institutional and societal shortcomings drives a left-leaning perspective.
The series features an all-Korean cast without ethnic diversity or recasting of conventional roles. Its thriller narrative subtly addresses flaws in the justice system through character interactions but does not emphasize critiques of traditional identities or foreground DEI concerns.
Secondary
Traditional family structures emerge as dysfunctional and prone to betrayal through infidelity and patriarchal violence that fails to protect vulnerable members, especially women. Maternal devotion and alliances among women provide resilience and justice, favoring non-traditional bonds over conventional norms.
The series features no identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes.
No transgender characters or themes feature in the series. Identity concealment occurs when a character assumes a deceased friend's name after her death in Thailand, but this involves no gender transition or exploration of transsexual identity.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The Price of Confession features original characters in an non-adapted series, with no instances of gender swaps from canonical or historical baselines.
The Price of Confession features original characters created for the series, with no prior source material establishing canonical races. All main roles are portrayed by Korean actors as Korean characters in a contemporary South Korean setting, resulting in no race swaps.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.6
7.9
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