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Friendly Rivalry

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Completed

16 episodes watched

100%

A high-teen mystery thriller about a close relationship between teenage girls in a harsher survival competition than entrance examinations.

Release year
2025
Released
Feb 10, 2025
Episodes
16
Country
South Korea
Genres
Mystery · Drama
Directed by
Kim Tae-hee
Written by
Kim Tae-hee · Min Ye-ji
Other credits
Song Chae-yun (creator)
Cast
Lee Hye-ri (Yoo Je-yi) · Chung Su-bin (Woo Seul-gi) · Kang Hye-won (Joo Ye-ri) · Oh Woo-ri (Choi Gyeong) · Kim Tae-hun (Yoo Tae-joon) · Chae Seo-eun (Jo Ah-ra) · Choi Young-jae (Nam Byeong-jin) · Kim Sang-ji (Beom-soo) · Lee Won-jae (Woo Do-hyeok) · Yoo Jung-Rae (Homeroom Teacher)

Seasons

Season 1 — Season 1 · 16 episodes

Episodes watched

s01e01, s01e02, s01e03, s01e04, s01e05, s01e06, s01e07, s01e08, s01e09, s01e10, s01e11, s01e12, s01e13, s01e14, s01e15, s01e16

Review

Was note expecting this to be so much of a thriller, I think it ended up having few too many turns of plan/counter-plan. The end was surprising to me and felt like a movie end, not a TV show end, let alone a Korean TV show. I may look up more from the writer and directory which I think is pretty high praise even if this show didn't entirely hang together.

Consumption history1

  1. Completed

    Season 1

External identifiers
tmdb
259288
imdb
tt35683421
tvdb
445778