Netflix’s ‘Dead-End Job’ Release Date, Trailer, Plot and Cast Revealed

‘Dead-End Job’ now has a confirmed premiere date of October 30, giving Netflix another genre series timed for the Halloween window. The streamer calls it a mystery-horror-fantasy series and announced the date alongside a teaser trailer and poster.

With the Netflix ‘Dead-End Job’ release date, trailer, plot and cast all taking shape, the picture is clearer than it was for much of the year. This is what has been confirmed so far about a workplace story where the paycheck comes with a body count.

Dead-End Job Release Date and Netflix Premiere Plans

Netflix confirmed that the series will premiere globally and stream exclusively on its platform. The show was earlier eyed for an early October slot, but that spot went to ‘Take Charge of My Heart’, so Netflix moved it to the Halloween-adjacent date.

One French outlet reports that the series goes live at 9:01 on Netflix. That outlet does not specify a time zone, so viewers should confirm the exact time in their own region.

The series was previously titled ‘Perfect Job’. Netflix has confirmed a total of 8 episodes, and production began in April 2025 before wrapping in November 2025.

Trailer Details and First Look at the Series

In the teaser, the head of the staffing agency, played by Lee Hee-jun, talks a hesitant Hyeok-jun into taking the job and insists that no better gig exists. It is a short pitch, but it sets the tone for a story built on a too-good-to-be-true offer.

The main trailer opens on a despondent Hyeok-jun who feels helpless and trapped by his mountain of debt. A montage of strange, life-threatening phenomena follows, while the boss dismisses the whole ordeal in voice-over as a sweet part-time job.

The first poster shows Lee Jae-wook looking exhausted and bloodied, a sign that this will not be an ordinary convenience store shift. The trailer also keeps many details hidden, which leaves open questions about how the agency operates.

One outlet noted that the cast is known for emotional intensity rather than broad comedy, which raises the question of how horror-comedy plays out when it is grounded in realism. That tension may end up defining the tone of the series.

Plot and Premise Behind the Convenience Store Job

Netflix’s synopsis follows Hyeok-jun, a young man who takes a seemingly perfect part-time job that pays 50 times the usual hourly wage through a mysterious employment agency. The job quickly becomes a nightmare as he encounters strange and terrifying phenomena.

Hyeok-jun is sent to what looks like an ordinary convenience store, where he soon discovers that every shift could cost him his life. The familiar retail setting gives the horror a grounded starting point.

The workers also operate under one firm rule, which is that they must never reveal what happens during their shifts. That secrecy gives the agency a sinister edge before the story has even shown its hand.

Descriptions of the genre vary. Netflix frames the series as mystery-horror-fantasy, while other coverage lists it as a fantasy comedy-horror.

Cast and Characters Leading the Series

Lee Jae-wook leads the series as Byeon Hyeok-jun, and he has previous Netflix lead roles in ‘Alchemy of Souls’ and ‘Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol’. His casting anchors the story around a character defined by financial desperation.

Go Min-si plays Yeon-ju, an investigator determined to uncover the truth behind the unsettling events at the agency, and she previously starred in Netflix projects such as ‘Sweet Home’ and ‘The Frog’. Kim Min-ha plays Byeon Ji-yun, Hyeok-jun’s spirited younger sister, who lives by the belief that poverty is scarier than ghosts. Kim has yet to star in a Netflix project and is known for roles in ‘Pachinko’ and ‘Not Alright But It’s Alright’.

Lee Hee-jun plays Kang Jun, known as Mr. S, the boss of the agency, and he has appeared in Netflix’s ‘Karma’ and ‘A Killer Paradox’. Behind the camera, the series is directed by Kim Da-min and created by Han Jun-hee, with Kim having previously written ‘A Killer Paradox’.

If Mr. S offered you a part-time job paying 50 times the usual hourly wage, would the debt pressure Hyeok-jun faces be enough to make you say yes, and does the trailer convince you that the convenience store is worth the risk?