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The infected of Happiness

TVInfected, still aliveA virus2010 to today

Happiness is a Korean series about residents sealed inside a new apartment building during an outbreak. Its infected are intermittently lucid, which keeps open the question of whether they are still people. The series uses the quarantine to look at class discrimination.1

Battle it
First appeared
2021
Released 2021
Source work
Happiness (2021)
Han Sang-woon (writer), Ahn Gil-ho (director), tvN
Made in
South Korea
What causes it
A virus
The Lytta virus, known as mad person disease and linked to a failed drug called Next.
How you become one
Scratches and bites; it is not airborne.
Intelligence
Some intelligence
field notes

What the sources say

1

Symptoms progress from unquenchable thirst to white pupils to a craving for human blood1

2

The infected swing between attacks of bloodlust and periods as their normal selves1

3

One character's blood carries antibodies that may lead to a cure1

4

Set in a quarantined apartment block divided between renters and owners1

5

A sleeper hit on Netflix after its international release in 20221

Sources

  1. Happiness (South Korean TV series) - Wikipedia

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