Alice in Borderland S1E1

Alice in Borderland is a Japanese thriller on Netflix. Based on the manga. 

First episode we are introduced to Arisu who is an aimless gamer and willfully unemployed much to the dismay of his successful family. Being fed up with his underachiever ass, his bro gets blunt with him saying how much of a burden and a leech he is to the family. So Arisu is like "Fuck it, I'll leave them." 

Away he takes off and texts his friends to go meet up. Chota and Karube. Along the way we see a brief background to these cats. Chota is seen reluctantly giving money to his mother and cautions that this is the last time he's doing this. She's thankful albeit still naive and it's implicated that she's giving this money elsewhere nefarious not even using it for herself! Meanwhile Karube is a bartender romancing the lady there but it turns out that's the boss' woman! Boss comes on in and greets Karube with a PUNCH! 

Eventually all 3 find each other and just chill on this board thingy people watching and shit. Then Karube says something cheesy just something ominous about our main character then proceeds to finagle his way into getting Arisu on his shoulders and go haywire running through the busy streets being little goofs but is until they spot the po po! They go running in this building and hide in the bathroom for some reason. They giggle like little girls while an officer is pounding on the door.

all of sudden all the lights go black and there is no more sound. all three step outside to an empty once busy street. They just stand there in awe. After they figure out there there really is fuck all to do, they enter this building as it is now night time. It is a bright ass light about a new game. Wondering what the fuck that is all about, they enter.

They are met with a table of phones in which they pick up which has these advanced biometrics that knows their identity. One woman comes in like a girl boss and tells them that they just registered for a game. Once they went past this invisible line, they are unable to leave as she shows them a laser thing that zaps them should they cross it. RIP Chota's work badge. Not like he needs it anymore anyway. 

A young lady appears out of nowhere and so glad to finally see people, she crosses the line and they explain to her that she is now a part of this game with them now.

The game commences and they enter in this room. The intercom says that this game is called "Dead or Alive" and are met with 2 doors. One door is has a dark skeleton and the other is white and angelic looking. The timer has now started and they have to decide which door to go through in which they have a 50/50 chance of dying. As the times is running out, there is a gas that is released through the floor. They quickly realized why. As the time is ticking down, the school girl can't take it anymore and just picks the Alive door in which she is zapped dedz. With only less than 10 seconds left of the clock, they run to the Dead door. Chota being the stunned little jelly bean he is almost got dedz too because the gas from the floor got ignited but Arisu rescured him just in the nick of time!

Now they are in another room but this time with the timer even lower than before. So now they have to decide in even quicker time and lesser people. By chance, they make it to the next room in which Karube took one for the team but luck was on his side since he didn't suffer the same fate as the young lady.

Arisu eventually figures out that there is an actual strategy to the door rather than being by luck. In so little time, he figures out that by the structure of the building, he can determine which of the doors is the safe door. He demonstrates this by going through the Dead door which saves the group. In the next room, he explains to them that they are in a square building and by drawing out the previous doors they once went through that all they have to do is go through the perimeter of the building like a circle. With this newfound information, they just fly through the next few doors. Everyone is all pumping the fuck up that they are actually going through these doors unscatched.

UNTIL

One of the last doors doesn't correllate with his final layout. Right when they are about to go throught he wrong wrong Arisu mentions that his original plan was wrong. He quickly takes a loook at Chota's video he recorded from his phone shortly before the school girl died and determined that they actully go through the Alive door. Holy shit, they live. But Chota got lit.

To their surprise in what is supposed to be the end, they  have one last game. Arisu is able to quickly determine the Dead door which led to all their exit to the outside of the building now.

YOOOO THEY WON THE GAME!!!

In the distance there is a small table that a 3 of Clubs sits as they have earned for surviving that game. Their phones light up and say they been rewarded with a 3 day Visa. The 3 day Visa means they can do fuck all until the next game. They can still enter a game as little time as they want but they can't go over that 3 day allotment. 

Just after they recieve the card, a man appears from the shadows and says how playing the game is futile. He says to the heavens that he forgeits the game and in a swift motion, a laser came from the sky and eliminted him. He drops dead right in front of their face. 

They whole group is like WTF did I just witness?!? The scene zooms out as we see overlooking the city there are various lasers just eliminating other players unbeknownst to them. All while this unknown woman is standing at the top of the building...concluding this episode

Episode 2 is next