The Game: Towards Zero
Title: 더 게임: 0시를 향하여 / The Game: Towards Zero
Also Known as: The Game: Towards Midnight
Genre: Fantasy, Crime, Mystery
Episodes: 32
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2020-Jan-22 to 2010-March-12
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:00 (2 episodes back-to-back)
Synopsis
This drama tells the story of a prophet and a detective who partner up in order to solve a serial murder case.
Kim Tae Pyung (TaecYeon) is a prophet who can foresee anyone’s death just by looking into their eyes. This changes when he meets Joon Young whose death he cannot see. Joon Young (Lee Yeon Hee) is a detective who works at Yongsan Police Station. She partners with a prophet to solve a mysterious murder case. Meanwhile, Goo Do Kyung (Im Ju Hwan) is a forensic expert. He is a perfectionist who digs through every case.
Cast
Main Cast
TaecYeon as Kim Tae Pyung
– Kim Gun Woo as Tae Pyung (child)
Lee Yeon Hee as Seo Joon Young
– Joo Ye Rim as Joon Young (child)
Im Ju Hwan as Goo Do Kyung / Jo Hyun Woo
– Kim Kang Hoon as Hyun Woo (child)
People in the Midwest
Park Ji Il as Nam Woo Hyun
Choi Jae Woong as Han Dong Woo
Shin Sung Min as Yoon Kang Jae
Lee Seung Woo as Ko Bong Soo
Lee Bom as Ji Soo Hyun
Hana Ilbo
Park Won Sang as Lee Joon Hee
Hong In as Park Han Kyu
Yoon Ji Won as Oh Ye Ji
People of Peace
Jung Dong Hwan as Teacher Baek
Ryu Hye Rin as Lee Yeon Hwa
Others
Jang So Yun as Yoo Ji Won
Choi Da In as Lee Mi Jin
Kim Yong Joon as Jo Pil Doo
Ye Soo Jung as Madame Jung
Yang Hyun Min as Oh Sung Min
Kim Hak Sun as Seo Dong Cheol
Kim Jung Young as the late of Seo Joon Young’s mother
Choi Kwang Il as Kim Hyung Soo / Kim Yong Bae
Lee Kan Hee as Mr. Baek’s fiancee (ep 9)
Jang Kwang as forensic expert
Kang Young Eun as orphanage girl
Production Credits
Director: Jang Joon Ho
Scriptwriter: Lee Ji Hyo
Note
TaecYeon and Lee Yeon Hee were previsouly starred together in Marriage Blue (2013).
Episode Ratings
| Date | Ep | TNmS | TNmS | AGB | AGB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nationwide | Seoul | Nationwide | Seoul | ||
| 2020-01-22 | 1 | 2.7 | - | 2.7 | - |
| 2020-01-22 | 2 | - | - | 3.8 | - |
| 2020-01-23 | 3 | - | - | 2.5 | - |
| 2020-01-23 | 4 | - | - | 3.7 | - |
| 2020-01-29 | 5 | - | - | 3.1 | - |
| 2020-01-29 | 6 | - | - | 4.2 | - |
| 2020-01-30 | 7 | - | - | 3.3 | - |
| 2020-01-30 | 8 | - | - | 4.5 | 5.0 (20th) |
| 2020-02-05 | 9 | - | - | 3.2 | - |
| 2020-02-05 | 10 | 4.8 | - | 4.6 | - |
| 2020-02-06 | 11 | - | - | 3.2 | - |
| 2020-02-06 | 12 | - | - | 3.8 | - |
| 2020-02-12 | 13 | - | - | 2.8 | - |
| 2020-02-12 | 14 | - | - | 4.0 | - |
| 2020-02-13 | 15 | - | - | 3.0 | - |
| 2020-02-13 | 16 | - | - | 4.5 | 5.1 (19th) |
| 2020-02-19 | 17 | - | - | 2.5 | - |
| 2020-02-19 | 18 | - | - | 3.4 | - |
| 2020-02-20 | 19 | - | - | 3.2 | - |
| 2020-02-20 | 20 | - | - | 3.7 | - |
| 2020-02-26 | 21 | - | - | 2.6 | - |
| 2020-02-26 | 22 | - | - | 3.8 | - |
| 2020-02-27 | 23 | - | - | 3.2 | - |
| 2020-02-27 | 24 | - | - | 3.9 | - |
| 2020-03-04 | 25 | - | - | 3.0 | - |
| 2020-03-04 | 26 | - | - | 4.0 | - |
| 2020-03-05 | 27 | - | - | 3.3 | - |
| 2020-03-05 | 28 | - | - | 3.4 | - |
| 2020-03-11 | 29 | - | - | 2.8 | - |
| 2020-03-11 | 30 | - | - | 3.9 | - |
| 2020-03-12 | 31 | - | - | 2.9 | - |
| 2020-03-12 | 32 | - | - | 3.5 | - |
Sources: TNmS Media Korea & AGB Nielsen Korea
Poster
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Trailer:-
– Trailer I
– Trailer II
– Trailer III
– Trailer IV
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December 24th, 2019 at 7:32 am
looking forward to this, was waiting for TaecYeon drama
December 25th, 2019 at 12:15 am
Please don’t let Im Joohwan became the serial killer in this drama his charisma will blow me away 😂😂
December 31st, 2019 at 12:20 pm
OK Taecyeon! Yayyy 2pm!
January 8th, 2020 at 8:26 pm
Wow! Taecyeon and Lee Yeon Hee, I will definitely watch this drama.
January 14th, 2020 at 3:44 pm
Will this drama replace Love With Flaws? How does this happen 2 dramas on Wed/Thurs at the same time. Help!
January 23rd, 2020 at 1:02 am
You can watch this on dramahive.com
January 24th, 2020 at 6:03 pm
Love love love the first 4 episodes. No dull moment! I hope they keep this up til the end of the series. Great comeback drama for Taecyeon.
January 25th, 2020 at 6:11 am
Ommo, low ratings…. Danger ahead!
January 25th, 2020 at 5:02 pm
Watch the first ost of this drama “WHERE YOU ARE” in yt https://youtu.be/-jbF5IQqj1U
January 28th, 2020 at 7:55 am
Yul, THANK YOU! for reading my comment.
February 12th, 2020 at 4:08 pm
Love this drama. Don’t understand why the ratings are so low. Exciting and Interesting script. All main actors doing a great job.
February 19th, 2020 at 10:52 am
my Oc Taec Yeon..waiting for the full episodes
February 20th, 2020 at 11:11 pm
The story has s similarly with He is Psychometric and Sketch
March 22nd, 2020 at 6:16 pm
give up on ep 8. The FL is so dump
April 24th, 2020 at 6:10 pm
Wow – Im Ju Hwan was fantastic in this drama. He really carried the show. Gave him a standing applause. He does a great job in all his shows. I have only seen him in 4 or 5 shows, and enjoyed his acting in all of them. The one’s I have seen though, he always likes the girl, but he always looses her to the other main actor in the drama.
Some of the scenes in this show were rather stupid. Do-Kyung pulls the plugs out of the breathing apparatus etc. when TP was in a coma in the hospital, Joon-Young runs to her car, and drives to the hospital w/o calling the hospital RN’s desk to have them check on TP and when she gets to the hospital, TP is up and walking. Stupid.
TP and the police caused some of the hatred DK had and they made it worse. No one ever apologized to him except Chief Nam while he was trying to arrest him, harassed by news media when he was small, etc. etc.
The news reporters are relentless and publish whatever they want whether it is true or not.
Not a bad show, but In Ju Hwan was the best and carried most of the show.
April 25th, 2020 at 6:09 pm
Do-Kyung’s mother cleaning his house. Where was she for 20 years???? Why didn’t she take her with her to China. I am sure it would have been hard for her to support DK and her, but dam, she is his mother. His life was ruined from the news reporters and people harassing him, and TP telling him how he would die.
I didn’t understand when TP told DK the truth of how he was going to die “because he was afraid.” Afraid of what??? He could have just lied to DK, no one would have known.
Interesting TP blows up the car, and he ends up in a come w/no burns on his body, but DK had burns on his face and hand. Strange scenes in these shows.
When TP and DK met up later in life, I feel TP just aggravated DK more. All TP did was yell at him, punch him out as he was so afraid of what he would do to SY. If TP would have left DK alone, DK may have not done anything to her.
DK had no one to love him all his life. He lived a miserable life, but he could have tried to clear his father in a different way, but…the police maybe still would not have believed him as Chief Nam was still in his position 20 years later.
April 26th, 2020 at 1:52 pm
Please explain the drama ending. I found it confessing.
April 23rd, 2021 at 7:39 pm
It’s not only the ending that’s confusing but the whole script. What a waste of talent.