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The Glory

★ 8.2 47K votes 2022–2023 1 season · 16 episodes Ended Netflix
RevengeVengeance as the driving motive.This show: 10/10K-dramaKorean drama storytelling: emotional arcs, romance beats and format traditions.This show: 9/10Strong female leadA complex woman drives the story.This show: 8/10SerializedContinuous arcs where every episode builds on the last.This show: 8/10TenseSustained suspense and pressure from start to finish.This show: 8/10Secrets & liesHidden truths straining every relationship.This show: 8/10Dark toneShadowy mood and subject matter, a shade short of outright bleak.This show: 8/10CatharticEmotional release through darkness confronted.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Song Hye-kyoLee Do-hyunLim Ji-yeonPark Sung-hoonYeom Hye-ranJung Sung-il
Starring
Song Hye-kyoLee Do-hyunLim Ji-yeonPark Sung-hoonYeom Hye-ranJung Sung-il
Ratings per Episode
246810
Votes per Episode
03006009001k

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"A slow, icy feast of calculated revenge"

The Glory follows a woman scarred by brutal bullying in high school who spends years quietly engineering a meticulous revenge against her former tormentors, now comfortable adults. The story alternates between flashbacks to the cruelty that shaped her and the present-day chess game she plays to dismantle her enemies' lives. It's cold, controlled, and deliberately paced, carried by icy performances and a mounting sense of inevitability rather than shock twists. Expect tension over action, and a mood that stays bleak even when the plotting becomes deeply satisfying to watch unfold.

Watch it for

the meticulous, years-long revenge scheme and its icy, magnetic lead performance.

Maybe skip if

you dislike bleak tones, deliberate pacing, or graphic depictions of school violence.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

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Season 12022
7.913K1614h 6m
A high school student dreams of becoming an architect. However, she had to drop out of school after suffering from brutal school violence. Years later, the perpetrator gets married and has a kid. Once the kid is in elementary school, the former victim becomes her homeroom teacher and starts her thorough revenge towards the perpetrators and bystanders of her bullying days.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Episode 17.5
1K47 min
▶2Episode 27.3
95251 min
▶3Episode 37.6
89650 min
▶4Episode 47.8
88047 min
▶5Episode 57.8
84648 min
▶6Episode 67.7
85251 min
▶7Episode 77.9
86949 min
▶8Episode 88.0
92354 min
▶9Episode 97.7
78253 min
▶10Episode 108.1
72051 min
▶11Episode 117.8
69453 min
▶12Episode 128.2
71053 min
▶13Episode 138.0
68654 min
▶14Episode 148.2
69954 min
▶15Episode 158.5
77460 min
▶16Episode 168.4
87871 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Song Hye-kyo Moon Dong-eun
Lee Do-hyun Joo Yeo-jeong
Lim Ji-yeon Park Yeon-jin
Park Sung-hoon Jeon Jae-joon
Yeom Hye-ran Kang Hyeon-nam
Jung Sung-il Ha Do-yeong
Kim Hieora Lee Sa-ra
Cha Joo-young Choi Hye-jeong
Jona Xiao Yeon-Jin
Harrison Xu Joo Yeo-jeong

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