Miniseries · Netflix
Dead-End Job
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Dead-End Job actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Dead-End Job reads strongest on World Building, Cliffhanger Intensity and Serialized.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
The story
What it's about
When a debtor is lured by a strange agency with the promise of lucrative gigs, he is soon thrust into a hellish world of terror and unpredictability.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Lee Sin-jiWriter
Direction
- Kim Da-minDirector
Where to watch
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