Lately Netflix has found success in adapting several acclaimed animated series, manga, and anime in live action, with One Piece, Alice in Borderland, and Avatar: The Last Airbender being some of the finest examples. Despite that being the case, the streaming channel still hasn’t learned from its mistakes, as becomes evident from its recently released ten-episode TV series, Bet, an adaptation of Homura Kawamoto and Toru Naomura’s manga series, Kakegurui. This westernized adaptation of the hit anime/manga series is shallow, lacks nuance, and emphasizes the narrative’s superficial aspects so much that it replaces the story’s sharp satire on class disparity and gambling with 90s teen school drama parody. Viewers who are not familiar with the source material will get confused by the narrative treatment, whereas those who have read the manga or watched the anime are going to detest this ludicrous adaptation.

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