Bet is a 2025 English-language Canadian murder mystery teen drama psychological thriller television series for Netflix. The series is a loose adaptation of the Japanese manga Kakegurui – Compulsive Gambler by Homura Kawamoto and Tōru Naomura. It premiered on May 15, 2025, with all ten episodes of the first season released simultaneously. Developed by Simon Barry, the show stars Miku Martineau as Yumeko, a transfer student at an elite boarding school governed by high-stakes gambling. In June 2025, the series was renewed for a second season.
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The series follows Yumeko, a skilled gambler who challenges the established hierarchy and the school's power structure at St. Dominic's Prep, an exclusive private boarding school where underground gambling dictates the social order. The students with the Top 10 gains from gambling are a part of the Student Council, and those who remain in the spots at the end of term get to go to a retreat with the board of school governors, who are mostly the parents of those consistently in the Council. The bottom of the ranking and those in debt become 'House Pets,' and are forced to do menial or humiliating tasks for students to whom they are indebted. Yumeko, with the help of students Mary, Ryan and Michael, is motivated to get into this ranking to figure out which of the governors killed her parents, after discovering that all were in the 'Kakegurui Club.'
