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If you were craving more South Korean content after brilliant shows like Squid Games, All Of Us Are Dead, Hellbound, and Sweet Home, then I’m sure that you found Netflix’s latest teen thriller drama series, Hierarchy, to your liking. Directed by Bae Hyeon-jin from a screenplay by Chu Hye-mi, the Netflix series is set at an elite South Korean high school, and it follows the story of a transfer student who seems to have a hidden motive behind enrolling in the school. So, if you loved the teen drama, revenge, love, and friendships in Hierarchy, here are some similar shows you could watch next.

Revenge of Others (Hulu) Credit – Disney+

Revenge of Others is a South Korean teen thriller drama series directed by Kim Yoo-jin from a screenplay by Lee Hee-myung. The Disney+ series follows the story of Ok Chan-mi, a shooting champion, as she transfers to a...

Dong-seok Shin’s debut feature “Last Child” fits alongside much South Korean cinema in being a gritty, emotionally-charged drama set in an environment of urban alienation. But with this the case, can a novice director bring enough new material to tried and tested formulas to keep the audience interested; or is he last to the party?

Last Child is screening at the BFI London Film Festival

Jin (Moo-seong Choi) and his wife Mi-sook (Yeo-jin Kim) are still mourning their son Eun-chan who died saving the life of his classmate. Jin keeps himself busy with work, while Mi-sook tries to connect with her son’s best friend – naturally uneasy around his dead friend’s mother. Seeking out the boy whose life Eun-chan saved, Ki-hyun (Yu-bin Seong), Jin finds a boy whose parents have abandoned him at seventeen, working as a delivery boy to pay his rent.

Taking pity on the young man,...

I Don’T Want To Die Alone

The year is 1999. A man on the verge of a psychotic breakdown attends a reunion organized by his old classmates, some of whom he hasn’t seen in 20 years. The gathering takes place near a river and some train tracks, and it isn’t long before he decides to use them. He starts going nuts, frantically sprinting through the water until he vanishes. Only to reappear on the train tracks, in a complete state of distress, yelling out the final words: “I’m going back!“. The poor man then willingly lets the oncoming train crush him into oblivion. That man was Kim Yongho and what happens next in “Peppermint Candy” is quite interesting…

In reverse chronology*, we go back three days to see what lead to his sudden departure from this world. What we find is a man on the brink of insanity,...