Revenant Episode 3 Recap and Review: Revenant (악귀) is a Korean supernatural mystery thriller about a student possessed by a demon, a teacher who can see the devil and an investigator who gets caught in the mess because of the two. Directed by Lee Jung-rim and Kim Jae-hong, the drama stars Kim Tae-ri, Oh Jung-se, Hong Kyung, Yang Hye-ji, Kim Shin-bi, and Jin Seon-kyu, alongside other cast members.

The drama brings the story of the poor student Ku San-young who gets possessed by a demon. She then meets teacher Yeom Hae-sang who possesses the ability to see demons since childhood. He recognises the demon possessing San-young as the one who killed his mother and is now wreaking havoc around her. There is also the investigator Lee Hong-sae who gets caught in the mess by the two.

The show will have 12 episodes and be broadcasted on SBS’ Friday-Saturday 22:00 PM KST time slot previously occupied by Dr Romantic season 3. Revenant episode 3 has a run time of 60 minutes.

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Revenant Episode 3 Recap

In the third episode, detectives Hong-sae and Mun-chun find an unusual connection between three suicide cases. Apparently, all the victims are students of the same university and also friends. Moreover, they find out from the students’ hostels that before they all died, the other residents heard heel clicks and loud knocking.

As they dig deeper into the case, the detectives get information about a missing girl, Ms Lee Tae-yong, who was friends with the deceased three. Ever since her friends died, she has been missing. On the other hand, Hae-sang and San-young visit the urbanised Jangjin-ri. After searching around, they finally find an old man who claims to know about the old town.

Hae-sang and San-young meet him and learn about the suicide tree. Additionally, San-young finds that the old man’s younger brother knows San-young’s late father Kang-mu. To get more information, she receives details about the old man’s late brother’s granddaughter, who is none other than Lee Tae-yong. Now that Hae-sang, San-young, and the detectives are in search of the same girl, both duos find different truths.

When the four meet at Tae-yong’s residence, Hae-sang and San-young see the shadow of the suicide tree over the building with three corpses hanging, this rules out that the fourth person to fall prey is Tae-yong. The detectives (who aren’t interested in ghost theories) learn that Tae-yong must have eloped due to some reason.

Later Hae-sang visits Tae-yong’s grandparents (the old man) and receives a picture of the suicide tree. San-young, on the other hand, visits the cafe where Tae-yong worked. Over there, she gets persuaded by the owner and staff to borrow money, but she rejects it and leaves. The detectives then watch CCTV footage from the residences, where they see a woman wearing a purple cardigan visiting the victims every week. The hostel owner claims that the woman is Tae-yong.

The detectives then meet up with Tae-yong’s grandparents and learn about her debt. Seems like Tae-yong has borrowed money from the cafe owner, who doubled up the interest rate and pressured her. Due to this, she is now seeking shelter from her grandparents. While this conversation is going on, San-young, who returns to the cafe, also learns about the fraudulent loan activity and is violently confronted by the owner.

She escapes from that place, calls Hae-sang and reports the scam and the danger that’s following Tae-yong. Hae-sang, at the right time, reaches Tae-yong’s grandparents’ place and saves Taeyong from the cafe’s staff. All this while, it was the staff who pretended to be a woman and assaulted the other students. Just when things get violent, Taeyong’s grandparents and the detectives arrive. They arrest the man and leave for the cafe.

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Revenant Episode 3 Ending

At the cafe, the police find the owner in a devastating state. Detective Mun-chun looks at the burnt wrist mark on the owner’s hands and watches the CCTV footage for evidence. There they find San-young smiling gruesomely at the cafe owner, who seems to be hurting himself for no reason. Meanwhile, Hae-sang learns about San-young’s interaction with the cafe owner and finds her at the bridge. Over there, he realises that it is no more San-young but the loose-hair devil that is talking to him.

Previously the owner gave San-young a fish bowl like the ones he gave to all his victims. As San-young is possessed by the evil spirit, it takes over her and punishes the owner for trying to scam her. The detectives are clueless about why San-young is present at every deadly place, but Hae-sang clearly understands the mission of the evil spirit, which is to cause harm to those who hurt San-young.

Revenant Episode 3 Review

While the story is interesting, I don’t know from which angle this series falls under the Horror category. Yes, there are ghost shadows and the actress Tae-ri smiling weirdly here and there, but apart from that, there is not a single jumpscare or fear factor. Hae-sang and San-young are in search of the evil spirit’s origin but on their way, they also save people from the hands of bad spirits. Meanwhile, the detectives also do the same, but they don’t believe in ghosts and such. Is the director trying to show the two sides of humankind?

The series is quite confusing because if the bad spirits are the ones causing damage, why are the detectives finding culprits? Indeed in the third episode, the students end their lives due to the pressure the cafe staff gave, so what was the purpose behind the suicide tree? Is this to show the contrast between the seen and the unseen? Maybe, but why? Aren’t we supposed to learn about the evil spirit that’s attached to San-young and the reason behind her father purposely leading her to get possessed? Then why are we shown about types of spirits? It isn’t educational in any way, to be honest.

Kim Tae-ri is a good actress, yes, but I kind of feel she’s overacting (no hate, please). In the scene when she hears the ghost’s voice, why did she run to the street from her house and pant on the road? Okay, girl, you could have calmed down literally right outside your house. What’s with all the exaggeration? Also, the way she smiles after getting possessed is funny. She should either glare or remain with a poker face because that smile on her petite cute face, uh-uh, it’s hilarious.

Till now, the series hasn’t offered any goosebumps moments at all. I feel like watching a series where a young girl is searching for the reason behind her father’s death and the evil spirit while also saving people. The creators should really start working on the Horror aspect and not add unnecessary extra storylines about other spirits and people because it’s boring.

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Revenant is available for streaming on Disney+.

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