#dystopian

#dystopian

Set on the desolate planet of Sirius 6B in the year 2078, the largely forgotten tale is relentless in its misery, from the opening scene where a soldier is brutally torn limb by limb to the closing shot twist (which the sequel confirmed caused the only survivor to commit suicide). It also looks bleak as hell, the color palette rarely straying from murky grays and browns and most of the action confined to rusty underground bunkers infested with rats.

Hello! I am the weak female lead in this dystopian Y.A. action movie, and I really just need to lie down. Ever since we ran away from Society six days ago, my ankle's been acting weird. Not, like, broken-weird, but every time I step down it kind of makes this clicking noise? Wait, it just did it again. Did you hear that?

In a twist from the original film, the new version of The Running Man follows contestants across the globe rather than confined sound stages.

The series became a global phenomenon seemingly overnight after dropping on Netflix in September 2021, showing the brutality of capitalism's impact on the disenfranchised.