# The Price Of Confession (2025)

> A wrongly accused woman is offered a way out by a mysterious stranger, who demands she commit murder in exchange for taking the blame.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/130943

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 12
- Episode runtime: 51 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: thriller, mystery, drama
- Created by: Kwon Jong-kwan, Lee Jung-hyo
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: Jeon Do-yeon, Kim Go-eun, Park Hae-soo, Jin Sun-kyu, Choi Young-jun, Kim Sun-young, Lee Mi-do, Kim Jung-pal
- TMDB rating: 7.5/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37218592/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: dense
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: tense, paranoid, bleak, suspenseful, cold

## What critics say

Audiences rate the series positively as a tense, twisty thriller with strong lead performances.

## Synopsis

The Price of Confession (2025) is a South Korean thriller series created by Kwon Jong-kwan and Lee Jung-hyo for Netflix. Jeon Do-yeon plays An Yun-su, a woman accused of killing her husband who is offered a way out by a mysterious stranger. The bargain asks her to confess to a crime in someone else's place, but only by committing a murder of her own. Kim Go-eun plays Mo Eun, and Park Hae-soo plays Baek Dong-hun, two principal figures whose own agendas tighten around the protagonist as each move carries new cost. The engine of the series is a cat and mouse game: every concealment demands another deception, and each episode turns on a shifting question of who is guilty and who is being used. The series unfolds as a single twelve episode run told as one continuing story, with courtroom scenes, hidden motives and sharp reversals driving the narrative forward. Its tone is tense and paranoid, with a cold, controlled atmosphere and mounting dread. Fans of Squid Game and Mindhunter will find resonance in its layered manipulation and moral unease, and fans of Breaking Bad will recognize its study of a protagonist sliding into compromise. Set in contemporary South Korea, it is a prestige Netflix thriller built on suspense and moral entrapment.

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