Netflix recently teamed up with TV Tokyo to release a mini-series called Re: Mind, a psychologically-thrilling drama show. With characters from the J-Pop Idol group Hirigana Keyakizaka46, the show made it big in Japan and is finally reaching the full attention it deserves. The show is in Japanese, but subtitles are available.

The show begins in a eerily lit, creepily decorated room with a hard copy of Ernest Hemingway’s short story “I Guess Everything Reminds You Of Something” at the focus of the mantel. This is basically the theme of the show. Eleven high school classmates awake, locked to the floor with satin bags on their heads and begin frantically convulsing, trying to get a feel for their surroundings. None of them know where they are, or why they are there, but they take heed of the book title and attempt to think back and remember why they could be there.

Throughout the show, the classmates slowly realize and remind each other about the things they all have done to possibly get them to where they are now and slowly start disappearing as they remember things. With a variety of plot twists and wild accusations, the script never gets boring.

The show was a little hard to catch onto at first, but after I got a feel for what the show was really about, I couldn’t stop watching and wondering who would’ve and could’ve done this to them and why. The plot twists kept me on my feet and the paranoia each character expressed honestly got to me and made me start second guessing everything. I felt almost as unsure about each of the girls as they were feeling about each other in that moment.

The ending honestly vexed me because it ended so ambiguously. I like to have a sound ending that makes sense, even if someone ends up dead at least I know. They reminisce all the good times all the girls had together and showed the evolution of their friend group and the eventual downfall and why they’re there now, basically spending their last waking moments together.

My favorite character, Mirei, is a true humble and quiet queen, is the only one I didn’t despise by the end of the show. You almost hate the girls just because everything that got them there, they did to themselves and it takes them so long to even apologize and own up to their wrongdoings.

Re: Mind is interesting and fun to follow along with while trying to crack the code. It’s extremely intense, it definitely isn’t for the weak-minded because of how morally dark it gets, it makes you question humanity and why people commit malicious actions, why good things happen to good people, etc. I’d give this show 4 out of 5 stars simply because while the ending plot twist absolutely surprised me, I felt that they could have wrapped it up in a more comforting way, at least knowing who’s dead and who’s alive.