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A Bloody Lucky Day

TV Paramount+ Drama 2024
Poster art for A Bloody Lucky Day. Oh Taek, Geum, and Hwang are illustrated in a painterly style, a taxi in the foreground

Common Sense Media Review

Jenny Nixon By Jenny Nixon , based on child development research. How do we rate?

age 16+

Violent K-drama about a cab driver trapped with a killer.

Parents Need to Know

Why Age 16+?

Any Positive Content?

  • Taxi driver Oh Taek looks horrified as Geum, the passenger in his backseat, cuts the palm of his own hand open.
  • Geum stands next to a cab that has its roof light on in the dark. He has a dark jacket and serious expression on his face
  • Hwang Soon-Kyu wears a plaid shirt and crouches down near a bush, looking over her shoulder with a startled expression.

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What's the Story?

A BLOODY LUCKY DAY is a thriller centered on Oh Taek (Lee Sing-min), a hapless, good-natured taxicab driver struggling with past debts and a painful estrangement from his wife and kids. After waking from a strange dream full of pig imagery (pigs symbolize wealth and luck in Korean culture), things might finally be looking up -- he's inundated with well-tipping passengers and stacking up the cash he so desperately needs. When Oh Taek agrees to one last fare, an enigmatic young man named Geum Hyeok-soo (Yoo Yeon-Seok) offering to pay $1,000 for an extra-long trip to Mokpo, he finds himself the unwitting getaway driver to a serial killer. While they race toward the coast so Geum and his suspiciously heavy suitcase can hop on the next ship out of the country, the grieving mother of one of his latest victims follows them, pursuing the justice a disbelieving police force won't give her.

Is It Any Good?

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Magnetic performances from the three leads -- particularly, Lee Jung-Eun (Parasite, Okja) as the vigilante mom -- help anchor this tense, sometimes bloody thriller. Oh Taek's goofy, playful personality contrasts wildly with his mysterious passenger's vibe, and when the latter's behavior escalates from darkly humorous teasing to outright psychotic abuse, you'll be on the edge of your proverbial seat. A Bloody Lucky Day will have you rooting for the cab driver and murder victim's mother to survive while also being drawn in by the charismatic persona of Geum, a decidedly sick individual.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about the popularity of thrillers, horror films, and other media focused on serial killers. Why are audiences drawn to stories about people they'd never want to meet in real life? Have you ever noticed villains portrayed sympathetically, or glamorized somehow?

  • Some characters in A Bloody Lucky Day push past their moral and ethical boundaries because their lives depend on it. Are illegal acts ever justified? Do the ends ever justify the means?

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