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The Silent Sea (2021)

Series · 45m episodes · Rated TV-MA · In Korean

Drama, Fantasy, Foreign (non-English), Mystery, Sci-Fi

Moon explorers race against time, retrieving samples from a desolate facility holding classified, cerebral secrets.

Suspenseful. A late-night trip at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.

Streaming on Netflix.

The Silent Sea parents guide

Of what we could confirm, nothing runs past a TV-MA: some violence and mild language.

Scare
Mildly scary
A few tense or eerie moments.
Jump scares
Several
More than a couple of sudden jolts.
Gore
Light gore
Some blood or injury, briefly.
Violence
Some violence
Some fighting or peril.
Sex and nudity
None flagged
It is rated TV-MA, so treat our zero as unconfirmed.
Language
Mild
Mild words like damn, hell or crap.

How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.

Three questions

Is The Silent Sea scary?
Only a little. The Silent Sea has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.
How gory is The Silent Sea?
Light gore and some violence.
What is The Silent Sea rated, and is it OK for kids?
No. It is rated TV-MA, with several jump scares.

What is The Silent Sea about?

During a perilous 24-hour mission on the moon, space explorers try to retrieve samples from an abandoned research facility steeped in classified secrets.

Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)

It leaves the ending open to interpretation.

Cast and crew

Created byPark Eun-kyo, Choi Hang-yong
StarringBae Doona, Gong Yoo, Lee Joon, Kim Sun-young, Lee Mu-saeng, Lee Sung-wook

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