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As You Stood By(2025)

Also known as You Killed • Naomi and Kanako (KR) • Eun-su and Hui-su

Archived · Netflix

7.716+8 eps
S01
CrimeDramaMysteryThriller
ON AIR: NOV 7Season 1Archived listing

What to Expect

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A Seoul-set miniseries built around two women who have run out of options, "As You Stood By" keeps its focus narrow and its pressure constant. The crime here is not a puzzle to unravel but a line being approached, slowly and almost inevitably, as circumstances close in from every direction.

Family and close relationships are the source of the trap, not a refuge from it. The psychological weight comes from watching ordinary moral boundaries erode under sustained, intimate pressure, with each episode tightening the sense that the women's choices have already been made for them by the people closest to them.

Best for

desperate choices, family conflict and Crime

Story lane

Crime and Drama

Commitment

Season 1 · 8 episodes

Where

Netflix

Official Premise

Two women are driven to the brink, facing an inescapable reality that forces them to consider murder as their only way out.

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