# Forget ‘Squid Game,’ Netflix’s Brutal Psychological Thriller With Only 16 Episodes Is Even Better

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/forget-squid-game-netflixs-brutal-psychological-thriller-with-only-16-episodes-is-even-better/
- Published: 2026-11-07T21:06:12+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-07T21:21:21+00:00
- Original publisher: Collider
- Original article: https://collider.com/the-glory-netflix-revenge-thriller-series/
- Topics: Entertainment, TV

## Key points

- *The Glory* follows a woman’s long-planned revenge for school bullying.
- Its 16 episodes build tension through relationships and careful manipulation.
- The series examines privilege, failed institutions and the cost of revenge.

## Summary

Netflix’s *The Glory* is a 16-episode revenge drama about a woman who spends years planning to confront the classmates who bullied her and the institutions that failed to protect her. The article argues that its focused, character-driven story makes for a more cohesive and intimate kind of brutality than *Squid Game*.

As an adult, Moon Dong-eun becomes a teacher at the school attended by the daughter of Park Yeon-jin, the former leader of her abusers. Rather than seeking one dramatic showdown, Dong-eun exploits the group’s weaknesses and relationships, with support from a doctor and a woman facing troubles of her own. The series unfolds in two parts, explores bullying, privilege and institutional failure, and leaves the morality and emotional cost of revenge unsettled; its depictions of abuse are intense.

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