An organ-harvesting ring is the least of the characters' worries in #Bargain, a bonkers, binge-worthy Korean survival drama on Paramount+. Read our review.
Noh Hyung-soo arrives at a remote hotel in the mountains thinking he's meeting high school student Park Joo Young for sex. But his creepy deed does not go unpunished: In fact, Hyung-soo has stumbled into an organ-harvesting ring, and it isn't long before he finds himself strapped to a gurney while a group of strangers bid on his kidneys.
Now for the shocking part: This all happens in the first 25 minutes — and Hyung-soo's bad day is about to get unfathomably worse. Written and directed by Jeon Woo-sung, The bidding is up to $132,500 for Hyung-soo's first kidney when a massive earthquake leaves the hotel half-destroyed. Hyung-soo, Joo Young, and a handful of bidders — including the desperate Geuk-ryul , who will do anything to secure a kidney for his dying father — emerge alive but definitely not safe.
As Joo Young, Jeon exudes the frosty composure of a girl whose existence is an exercise in survival, while Jin keeps Hyung-soo — who oscillates between frantic indignation and apoplectic anger — from becoming buffoonish. The worse their odds of survival look, the calmer Joo Young gets, which makes Hyung-soo spiral even more. "At least I'm a better human being than you!" he sputters, clinging to the moral high ground that he squandered the moment he stepped into the hotel.
The six episodes, all around 35 minutes each, are over far too quickly, and the cliffhanger ending is unexpectedly abrupt. And ifis an unbeatable binge, holding our attention the way Jeon Woo-sung's camera holds its gaze, never wavering — even when faced with the worst of humanity.
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