100 Days of Lies Hits a Series-High 10.7% in Episode 10

tvN’s sixteen-episode weekend drama 100 Days of Lies aired episode 10 on 8 November at 9:10 pm KST. Nielsen Korea put it at 10.7% nationwide among paid-platform households, with a peak of 12.0%. The Seoul metro area averaged 11.7%, peaking at 13.1%. The previous series high was 9.8% in episode 8, so the rise is 0.9 points.

Source: Nielsen Korea, as reported by Frameless, Joynews24 and Top Star News.

Top Star News called it the first double-digit rating this year among weekend dramas. Joynews24 reported first place in the 20-to-49 demographic across all channels, including terrestrial ones.

What happened in episode 10

The series follows Lee Ga-gyeong (Kim Yoo-jung), a pickpocket turned spy, and Kim Tae-woong (Park Jin-young), an interpreter at the Japanese colonial government. It is directed by Yoo In-sik and Kim Yoon-jin and written by Ryu Bo-ri.

A bomb went off at an opening banquet at the governor-general’s office. Sato Shinichi (Jin Seon-kyu) fought Song Jeon (Jeon Yung-beop), who had slipped in as kitchen help. Yoo So-ran (Kim Hyun-joo) followed the gunshot and saw Kim holding a gun beside the fallen Song, and took him for the killer.

Police pressed Yoo and Yoo Pil-ip (Lee Moo-saeng) over a single pearl earring found at the scene. Lee Ga-gyeong produced an earring and fooled the officers, and Kim let it pass.

Kim recalled how Lee had pulled his hand just before the blast and became convinced she was with the independence fighters. At the end he asked, “You’re a spy, aren’t you?”

What we can and cannot say

We give only Nielsen Korea’s household figures. Household and peak-minute figures are different measures, so we do not compare them. The series has not answered Kim’s question, and we do not answer it either.

The drama airs Saturdays and Sundays at 9:10 pm on tvN, with six episodes left. By that schedule episode 11 falls on 14 November; we did not check for any change.