Big Mouth

Worth every minute

This drama was honestly such a drive.
Everything in this drama was intense. Every second was such a thrill as it provides everything. I feel like this drama has every genre you can think of.
The question of who’s big mouse was shocking and how each character drastically change from being good to bad and vice versa.
This is my favourite kdrama this year.
I’m really impressed how the writers made such an amazing plot line. It was honestly impressive. I did not expect it at all and this is the kind of new genre of kdrama I love to watch. I’m more of a rom-com but sometimes this genre really hit the point.
It was definitely worth every second & I would definitely re watch this drama again. I’m praying for this team to win numerous awards as they deserve it!
9/24/22 @ sk 11:28pm

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came for lee jongsuk, stayed for yang kyungwon ?? (nah but forreal, just GO WATCH IT!!)

want a fast-paced, crime-centered drama focusing on a mysterious entity (with JUST the right amount of drama & light-heartedness sprinkled in to keep it fun)? big mouth's your show!

i'll start this off by saying: i have SO many thoughts about this drama but i'll keep this review short and sweet.

i believe that big mouth is a 10/10 drama. YES, the ending is rushed and there are too many questions to truly call it a perfect show, but for me- the sheer fucking excitement that coursed through my veins every week when i was about to watch a new episode is what truly represents how good the drama was- not the fumbled ending due to a classic case of 'too much plot too little time'.

in any case, if the drama described above seems to be your kinda thing, i DEFINITELY recommend watching it- although the execution might not have been the best towards the end, big mouth was SO damn near perfect that i bet it probably won't even matter to you when all's said and done: just as it doesn't matter to me!

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A good drama with an excellent start but a disappointment in the last episodes.

Big Mouth is a good drama but I got to say that the last episodes were a disappointment for me. I feel like they made BM so relevant and important to the story but when we found out who BM really was, it wasn’t that exciting anymore. 12 episodes to reveal him just to kill him in the next episode? What? I know Changho was already prentending to be BM but the whole climax was to find out who was the real BM. And when we finally found out, they just killed him. They should’ve made Changho be the real BM since the beginning then. Jerry was a character that it could have been more useful to the story too. They saved him for what? lol I thought he would have a more meaningful part in the drama. They created all this suspense about him for nothing. And it’s funny if we think about that because the writer decided to save him but kill Miho, who was doing much more relevant things in the drama.

Miho’s leukemia and death was so unecessary. I really don’t care if a character dies in the end but her death seemed so forced and with 0 purpose to the main lead story. She died for Changho become BM? But he could have become BM without her dying…she really didn’t need to die. Also I loved her character in the beginning but it seems like the writer really wanted to kill her because she became a dumb character out of nowhere. But I have to point out that the effort of the actors really pays off. Jongsuk is phenomenal in this drama, he was the best thing for me here. Really natural and good actor. Handsomeee as well. The other actors were good too. The whole mystery about who BM is it’s really thrilling and make us addicted to each episode. It was fun to make theories. The writer was smart with this Big Mouth/Big Mouse idea. The pronunciation is similar so it was a smart move. I absolutely loved the OST too, fits the drama and the scenes really well.

I think in general it’s a fun drama to watch. But it could have been better if the writer didn’t lose himself in the middle. If you liked Defendant or Flower of Evil I think you have chances to like Big Mouth as well, although Defendant and FOE are much more superior dramas.

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"Big Mouth" is a drama about a lawyer named Chang Ho. He is an intelligent man, but he has no luck with his cases, always losing, and one day he receives a job offer he can't refuse. The problem is that everything was set up and Chang Ho was framed for being a famous drug dealer and wanted, which led to him being arrested and having to spend time in prison with criminals. Chang Ho then has a brilliant plan to survive in this place: he assumes the identity of the criminal "Big Mouse", the same person who is framing him, and transforms the prison, taking control..

This was a great drama, it really surprised me! Although the romance is not the focus, Chang Ho and Mi Ho's relationship is a strong point of the story. Seeing how Mi Ho believed in Chang Ho until the end was beautiful to see, even with everything against him, and that's why the ending hurts so much, they couldn't have a happy ending. Mi Ho dies, but Chang Ho takes revenge in the end, making Do Ha die the same way he killed Mi Ho, a very fair retribution.

Lee Jong Suk is an incredible actor, I don't know how people don't recognize his impeccable work. The way Chang Ho's expressions changed in each situation was impressive, even scary.

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Was this really big?

I watched this finally since it received raves and awards for the leads and the drama from the MBC network....so it must have been a bad year for MBC if this was the mega winner. It does feature a different angle as to how the ML gets entangled in a power struggle but otherwise it is a standard overly dramatic Korean gangster/power abuse melodrama featuring lots of gang fighting and over the top cruelty against the powerless.. but the revenge against the abusers is not very effective or clever.
If you like the leads, he is as goodlooking as ever even when beaten up and when he weeps, and she is admirable but it was more pleasant to see her in King the Land.
Personally I thought that the ML as well as FL in The Forbidden Marriage that was in the 2022 line up with this show showed a far greater range of emotions and character depth in a well executed story in less than the standard 16 episodes in which this drama was drawn out to fill the space.

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Good ending but …

MORAL OF THE STORY: Do NOT enter a location when you see people wearing PPEs. (If you are a nurse, you should know this already.)

I applaud the screenwriter for not shying away from killing a major character. There are very few screenwriters who are brave enough to do it, often screenwriters choose the "they happily lived ever after" route.

However, as the intro to this post hinted, I do not approve the sudden stupidity of a major character just to get that character terminally ill. Go Mi Ho was a nurse. She is intelligent and full of wisdom. Where did her intelligence AND WISDOM go in the cave sinkhole episode? Then after that episode, Mi Ho became intelligent and full of wisdom again.

In that one episode, she suddenly acted a hero when it was never part of her character, and after that episode, she never acted a hero either. She is intelligent AND WISE. She took calculated risks. She was no hero, before or after. But in that one episode, she acted a dumb hero which led to her getting exposed to deadly radiation.

Sure. There are people who would have done the same as she did but that is a rare thing most especially when the people escaping a disaster are wearing PPEs, and you happen to know as well as corrupt and evil the operator of that cave. All for what? For that character she saved to only die WITHOUT contributing anything to the plot after he was saved.

That episode. Go Mi Ho suddenly throwing her intelligence and wisdom out the window was only meant to get her terminally ill. No more, no less. It was very weak. They could've have used a contaminated bottled water or fish planted by Choi Do Ha, or some other method other than letting her do something out of her character.

People rarely do something like what she did unless they have a very, very, very strong conviction which Go Mi Ho did not possess. She took calculated risks for her husband, that was the entire driving force behind her. Her saving people begins and ends with her working as a nurse, outside of it she didn't do anything.

Again, good job on not being afraid of killing a major character. But very bad job on how to get that character terminally ill.

From 10 stars, it's down to 8 stars.

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One thing is missing: Better writers!

This show started out so good, the main plot was interesting, and the cast is amazing. So, what's wrong with this Kdrama?

I think, it was too big for the writers to handle.

This series is like a fast car with a bad driver. You have everything from the start, but you don't know what to do with it. So many plot holes, and honestly, without the cast, I'm not sure if I would finish it. The whole Big Mouth plot started out well, but the minute Changho take on the role, it was madness. The guy was basically the worst lawyer ever, he couldn't handle his own life without his wife Miho, yet after he was almost killed in prison, he became this smart leader who can outdo anyone. The biggest plot armor ever!

Not only that, I could accept this, because why not? But so many frustrating things happened. For example, no one gets punished, even tho Changho proved on a freakin' LIVE SHOW that they're guilty, they killed many people, that one guy killed his own ex-wife as well, yet no one mentioned it since.

The WORST part of the show is probably what they did with Miho. She was basically the only smart character, a NURSE, yet she's just casually walk in a mine or whatever was that, where she can see people in hazmat suit, and the whole thing was collapsed, yet she still wants to go there, because she thinks she's invincible.

I loved her character, BUT I didn't feel a single thing when she died. Why? Because the writers did a shit job! The problem isn't the fact that she dies, the problem is how she died. I mean, if you want to kill her, just kill her, but don't make her look like a smart woman who's making the biggest mistake that a nurse can make!

The last 2 episode was just nonsense! What the hell was that finale? How on Earth Changho managed to poison the water, and why Doha died so fast? The same goes for Miho, btw, because every other patient who died, they lived for months, yet she died after a couple of days.

Even tho I liked the show, I just can't stand lazy writing. They wasted so much time on meaningless things, but ignored important parts of the story, and they finished off the whole thing in 5 minute, basically.

This show could've been the next a Flower of Evil, but the only one who deserve a flower is the cast, and everyone who finished the whole show.

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Enjoy the show but dont expect too much it's not as powerful as it seems

First of all I'm little bit emotional right now bc I just finished the last episode. And I'm really PISSED OFF. like seriously guys. Why did you put everthing in last five seconds and nothing happened in the last five episodes? and HOW COULD YOU KILL MIHO! She was my favorite character, I wouldnt be this sad and mad if chango died and believe me I love him too. I mean I always complain about absurd survival of the main characters in kdramas when they should die in the end but man! dont touch miho. "Getting FOUR STAGE cancer by exposure to toxic water for just five minutes" is this even a thing. The worst thing about her death was the Chango's lack of reaction like after all those dramatic acting in prison, did actor's acting capacity is over?
The disease process was also very insensitive and drone. They were like okey we're wrapping this up she has cancer, no one do anything for her treatment, just give her one piece of pill and let her die, next.
Other than that I like the ending scene where mayor's death but they shouldve done that before. If you're gonna play dirty why wait. Anyways it's really dissapointing that they left a lot of things in the air. At the beginning this show gave me a lot of preason break vibe (its my all time fav) but lets be honest they didnt/couldnt pull that of. There some other stuff about story and twist but too lazy to write them. I'm here bc I just wanted to get on my nerves anyways.
Over all I enjoyed watching this even though... Would I rewatch it sometime no bc I know all the secrets now and that doesnt make me wonder anymore and It would just make me mad bc of the lazy ending.

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Excellent show, heartbreaking ending that didn't make much sense

PROS: Great plot, excellent acting, kept me hooked on the scenario and the characters. Park Changho had a very interesting character development, half of my hypotheses about Big Mouse and his team ended up being correct, other half were wrong, which only made the show even more enjoyable for me. Choi Doha is a decent (I guess?) enough villain for me to dislike him, Changho and Miho have a beautiful relationship, Big Mouse's grey morality passes by in a way that eventually makes you side with the team and genuinely get upset over Noh Park's death. I thoroughly enjoyed the series, despite its negative parts and I would recommend it to crime enjoyers.

CONS: Small plot holes here and there that made me side eye the writer for a bit. Gong Jihoon is the comic relief character but was too annoying for me to laugh at him. Not enough details on what was going on at the Lab section of Gucheon Hospital and what the "model inmates" were forced to work on. Doha's motive is simply not convincing enough, and both his and Miho's too fast death don't make much sense, medically speaking, but I'm not a doctor so I can't be certain for all the related mistakes of the scenario. We never see Chairman Kang' infamous serial killer son and his addition to the plot seemed like an easy way to explain Tak Kwangyeon's significance. Took me way too long to figure out Big Mouse and Big Mouth are written the same in Korean and that's where the wordplay was coming from. What was Choi Jungrak even doing?

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Almost a masterpiece if it weren’t for that sloppy rushed ending

Sep 17, 2022

Another KDRAMA that I would have given a solid 10/10 if it weren’t for the disappointing ending. Big mouth had the greatest potential of being the kdrama of this year. Like episodes 1-12 were so fantastic and solid. I feel like I was so hooked into it and looking forward for the twist and turns of the plot. But episodes 13-14 became a little underwhelming then ep 15 was above average then ep 16 was just literal wtf. I feel like my whole reaction to ep 16 was just frustration with the writers and directors. They could have written and wrapped the story more decently. I feel like everything became so out of place. The pacing of the timelines were so jagged and jumpy. Honestly, I will just go in the bad first cause I haven't been this frustrated in a while. I think it is because I really loved this drama. Such a good series, but the ending really just didn’t serve at all.

As for the good, this is Lee Jong Suk we talking about so of course his acting is fantastic. I love the cast from his wife to the psychopath prisoners. They were all lovely, even the villains. They delivered well in their acting cause I really hated all of them.

Yea, honesty ep 1-12 solid 10/10
ep 13-14 solid 9/10
ep 15 7.5/10
ep 16 I am not even gonna bother rating it

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worth a watch

Expections before starting this drama was high because of the stunning cast. Overall it started really well but in the middle there had some up's and downs and dragging and ended really well.

Who is the real big mouth..? That question is the main curiosity factor of this drama at first. It's keep rotating from one person to another. Coming to plot, The whole life of our hero Lawyer park chang ho becomes upside down when he accept a murder case. The drama slowly shift it's gear and move to very interesting from there. From E01 to E08 it's brilliantly narrated but after that there was some slow in the narration and also felt some unwanted dragging in screenplay. But still there were some scenes which keep you there.

From E11, it started to get more exciting again. Even though there were some drag in the story telling but still it's never get bored. For the last 2 episodes it completely regained it's strength with a very good ending... Satisfied with everything.

Lee Jung suk was nailed it as Park Chang ho. Also Yoo Na did a great job as his loving wife and played a very matured character. Also some other notable superb performances from the cast.

Big mouth is definitely a worth watch drama. Don't know how you feel when you watch all epi at once. But it never disappoint you that easily. Some dramas you can never judge before it end. I also labelled this as boring drama after E10. But i was wrong. Lee jung suk and Kim Yoo Na was really good with their chemistry ❤️ try it

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Hooking Drama but disappointing ending

The Drama was overall good, the story had me hooked. Who is Big Mouse really? The intrigues during the drama and even the backstory of the important caractars. Every aspect was perfect. The cast was an absolute perfect choice. There wasn't a lot of OST, which could have ruined the mood. So id should deserve a higher rating, but the ending.
The last episode, espacially the last 10 to 15 minutes were rushed.
I'm not shure how big of a time skip there was and how Changho executed everythig (don't wanna spoil). So there is a gap, which I think should have been filled.
But still an overall good drama.

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