It is directed by Jung Jong-yeon and stars Kang Ho-dong, Kim Jong-min, Shin Dong, Yoo Byeong-jae, and Kim Dong-hyeon. Of these, Kang Ho-dong and Yoo Byeong-jae also appear in 'The Great Escape: The Story.' Watching what place these two, who return in a work that carries on the same title, take within the team here gives you a point of comparison when you watch the later work. Kim Jong-min, Shin Dong, and Yoo Byeong-jae also appear together in 'The Great Escape: Urban Legends,' so you can follow how the teamwork built here carries over to another stage.
The viewing rating is 15+ and the running time is listed as 77 minutes. Each episode is long, so you watch the process of piecing together the room's clues one by one at a leisurely pace. On TVING, it has been available by subscription since June 25, 2018.
What to watch for
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The setup has members full of gaps cooperating in outlandish ways, so the trial and error of the solving process is more of a spectacle than the answer itself.
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At 77 minutes, you can watch it as a steady flow of examining the clues and devices of the huge escape room one by one.
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Kim Jong-min, Shin Dong, and Yoo Byeong-jae also appear together in 'The Great Escape: Urban Legends,' so you can compare the three's chemistry across the two works.
It suits viewers who want to watch, at a long and leisurely pace, a team-play variety show in which a group stumbles its way out of an escape room.
