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Review | Disney+ K-drama No Way Out: The Roulette review – crime thriller is digestible but light

  • While the show started off strong, it is bogged down with hammy characters and a plot so superficial that it flounders under its own weight

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Cho Jin-woong as Detective Baek Joong-sik in a still from No Way Out: The Roulette, which is engaging but becomes bogged down by the weight of its own story. Yoo Jae-myung, Kim Mu-yeol, Yum Jung-ah, and Lee Kwang-soo co-star. Photo: Disney+

This article contains spoilers.

3/5 stars

Lead cast: Cho Jin-woong, Yoo Jae-myung, Kim Mu-yeol, Yum Jung-ah, Lee Kwang-soo

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With its rotating roster of characters and dizzying series of twists, the creators of No Way Out: The Roulette could never be accused of taking the easy way out.

However, breathless though this punchy crime thriller undoubtedly is, the failure to follow through on story threads results in diminishing returns over the course of its eight episodes.

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