Pleasant Outcast, premiered at 2024 Canneseries festival, is based on the best-selling webtoon, Cheerful Outcast.
This 10-part series is a companion piece to the Korean box office smash hit film Concrete Utopia,
which was selected as South Korea’s Oscar contender.
This series is co produced by Climax Studio (D.P., Ballerina, Hellbound, Parasyte: The Grey),
known for its genre expertise in horror, thriller and mystery and Lotte Cultureworks (The 8 Show).
Pleasant Outcast follows Dong-hyun, a high school junior, who barely survives the day-to-day bullying at school.
After wishing everyone would just die, his school building collapses for unknown reasons.
Trapped amid extremely isolating circumstances, the surviving hierarchal power struggles while apocalyptic-like accidents continue to claim more lives.
During this time the students are faced with continuous incidents, confrontations, and collisions.
As the dwindling population tries to survive in this new world, the darker aspect of their true human nature awakens.
