South Korean series Squid Game‘s reign as the most-watched series on Netflix has officially ended. FlixPatrol analytics officially confirms that the same country’s highly anticipated show Hellbound ousted the global phenomenon in twenty-four hours.
Train to Busan’s director Yeon Sang-Ho’s newest series topped in eighty countries, and it also scored a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Based on the popular and highly-acclaimed Hell, supernatural beings storm Seoul and harvest souls, sending them to Hell. A religious cult rises amid chaos, and a group of individuals is set to find out the truth behind the paranormal phenomenon.
2021 is ruled with South Korean series and movies, with Netflix being due to bandwidth usage and the popular series Squid Game smuggled in North Korea and China.
Director Yeon Sang-Ho’s series aims to mirror the worst in humanity, which is his trademark, as shown in Train to Busan.
Despite the high marks on Rotten Tomatoes and topping charts in eighty countries, Hellbound scored 6.9 on IMDb because some people found the show’s storyline progress slow. Still, the series is already creating a worldwide phenomenon blockbuster.