# The Devil's Plan (2023)

> Ten contestants battle through intricate strategy games and shifting alliances for a 500 million won prize.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/135345

## Facts

- Seasons: 3
- Episodes: 26
- Episode runtime: 68 min
- Status: Returning Series
- Genres: reality
- Created by: Jeong Jong-yeon
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: Kim Dong-jae, Suh Dong-joo, Lee Hye-sung, Kwak Joon-bin, Orbit, Park Kyeong-rim, Guillaume Patry, Ha Seok-jin
- TMDB rating: 8.3/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27995115/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: moderate
- Complexity: dense
- Violence: none
- Tone: tense, cerebral, competitive, playful, suspenseful

## What critics say

Audiences broadly rate the show as acclaimed for its intellectual strategy games and alliance politics, though some find its complicated rules hard to follow.

## Synopsis

The Devil's Plan (2023-2025) is a South Korean reality competition series created by Jeong Jong-yeon for Netflix. Ten contestants, among them Ha Seok-jin (Ha Seok-jin), Kim Dong-jae (Kim Dong-jae), Lee Hye-sung (Lee Hye-sung) and Guillaume Patry (Guillaume Patry), face off over two seasons of intricate, multi-stage games in which logic, bluffing and coalition building matter as much as luck. Each contest hides a dense rulebook that players must decode and bend to their advantage, while alliances form, fracture and reshape the chase for a 500 million won prize. The format is a strategic puzzle box rather than a physical endurance test, so every episode rewards close attention to who knows what and who is lying. Production is sleek and tightly edited, with the tension sitting in quiet deliberation, sudden reversals and the uneasy trust between rivals. The show spans two seasons and roughly twenty-six episodes, and it has been praised for pitting sharp minds against each other in a way few competition shows manage. Fans of The Traitors, Survivor and Squid Game will find resonance in its blend of deception, elimination and high-stakes psychological play.

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