Limited series · Lezhin Snack
Checkmate
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Checkmate actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Checkmate reads strongest on Character Depth, Serialized and Bingeability.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Upon seeing the perfect Eunsung at rock bottom, the insecure Soohyun is consumed by obsession.
Recently aired
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Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
Where to watch
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