Pyramid Game

February 27, 2024

Sung Su-ji (Kim Ji-yeon) transfers to Baekyeon Girls High School and discovers the Pyramid Game — a monthly student-run ranking system that determines every social privilege and punishment.

February 28, 2024

The full mechanics of the Pyramid Game are revealed. Students at the bottom are subjected to systematic cruelty. Su-ji's refusal to participate makes her immediately vulnerable.

March 5, 2024

The student at the top of the pyramid — Kim Bo-mi (Chae Soo-bin) — is shown in full complexity. She maintains the system as much from habit as from cruelty.

March 6, 2024

Su-ji ends up at the bottom of the ranking. The episode depicts the resulting treatment with unflinching accuracy. The school exterior in Yangcheon-gu reflects its institutional indifference.

March 12, 2024

Su-ji begins building alliances with other low-ranked students. The drama's shift from victim narrative to collective resistance begins.

March 13, 2024

Cracks appear in the pyramid's top tier. Students who maintain the system begin to question its costs.

March 19, 2024

A confrontation scene at Lotte World Tower — the drama's most visually dramatic setting. The height literalises the hierarchy's stakes.

March 20, 2024

The monthly ranking vote — the drama's structural centrepiece — approaches. Su-ji has been preparing for it.

March 26, 2024

The pyramid begins to collapse from within. The drama's most cathartic episode.

March 27, 2024

The finale. The only Korean drama invited to Series Mania 2024. A conclusion that insists accountability is possible — even in institutions designed to prevent it.