Watching people grapple with the inexplicable will always be a solid building block for a TV show.
Whether it’s people disappearing, people fighting a mysterious outbreak, or people trying to make sense of things they find on their journey toward the Arctic, these kinds of stories get at something fundamental in a way that few other shows can.So it makes it all the more potent when that search for answers gets fully cosmic.
Such is the case with “Hellbound,” the latest international Netflix series to leap into the ranks of the platform’s most-watched.In it, a strange fate is befalling random people in the Seoul of the not-too-distant future.
Visited by the same wispy, shadowy prophet of doom, they’re informed that they’re destined for Hell and that their day of judgment is imminent.
Given the exact date and time of their demise, they’re left to wait for the inevitable.
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