Big Mouth

BEST DRAMA...

I love this drama as I like this kind of drama...
you should watch this drama...
Cast was good, I liked what they had to offer, character Park Chang Ho played by Lee Jong-Suk could have been written better. I really liked the character of Choi Do Ha played by Kim Joo-hun, you would really start hating his guts. Overall setting was good. This series is good...
Lim Yoona plays the dedicated wife, Miho, whose unwavering support, along with her lawyer father and his partner, help Chang-ho reveal the truth...
Big Mouth is the perfect example of a classic thriller. The increasingly high ratings for all the episodes indicate just how riveting the show is...
Thank god this is not like any other married couple drama with a weak female lead and Yoona had done an amazing acting...

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Big Mouse, Big Mouth...

well the majority of the drama revolves around revealing truths, and bringing justice
I don't think the drama gives us justice entirely in the end, but that's still a bit satisfying. However, it contains many plotholes and loose ends, which are extremely disappointing.

The drama could be sectioned into two parts: ep 1-13 and ep 14-16; and I thought episodes 1 to 13 were really great, and entertaining. It gives us badassery, corruption (in ingenious ways), characters in survival mode, scandals with big companies, and a portrayal of some of the evil elites.

It was however rushed and some parts didn't make sense. I expected more for a LJS comeback drama, especially regarding his character's personality (which I found had no depth)

I think you will enjoy this drama if you like action dramas that take place in prisons, with many important side characters.

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Deserves a second season tbh...

I literally JUST finished watching this after binging it for the last two days and honestly, I think it's one of the best dramas I've seen this year. But, I do agree with some of the other reviews that said the ending was rushed. The story was fantastic, but I felt like this is a show that should've has at least two more episodes. The last episode felt like it was missing something. It felt like it was just a summary of a last episode because of how quickly it rushed through the ending. Some other things that bugged me where how Doha's death felt too easy. Or how they mentioned the elder's son, but he literally never appeared. This is why I'm hoping that there is a season two. There's a lot of questions I still need answered. I'm not usually one to want a second season of a drama bc most of the time I like how there's just a happy ending and that's it. But the ending of this show is (kind of) a cliffhanger imo. I need to know what happens next.

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Good k-drama

This drama shows how people with power and money can manipulate others. I was excited to watch this drama from the day I found out that Lee Jong Suk was the main character in this drama so I had high expectations. I didn't want to be spoiled about anything but at the end of the day thank you TikTok for showing me edits about the ending. When I saw the edit I wanted to smash my phone across the room. When I want to talk about this drama more specifically I would say that It had a rushed ending. It was like 16 minutes until the end and we still didn't see progress. I don't fall asleep while watching something but I fell asleep during one of the episodes which was probably due to burning out from school since I have to be cheerful, if I do the opposite I could get told that I am one walking depression. But that only shows that I felt safe enough to sleep. Thank you for reading this <3

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It is not as bad

I loved the concept of a small, powerless figure becoming the head of a big organisation so much more than I anticipated. Park Changho, being an orphan, an unsuccessful lawyer with no money, tangles up in schemes out of his control, but with a bit of luck and his brain comes out on top, not because he wants to, but needs to.

I saw some people saying that he being the mastermind all along would have been amazing, and I just hate that take! The whole appeal of this series is that Changho is nobody who becomes the most influential person in the city. His survival instincts push him to become more calculating, ruthless, and a little bit evil in the end. He never wanted this life, but circumstances and the loss of Miho cornered him in the end. I feel like he became the person he despised at the beginning of the story.

I also want to say that losing Miho was not surprising and something that is almost a canon event for an anti-hero, and Changho is one! He is an anti-hero because he also does everything to survive; he bribes the head warden, beats up Dr. Han, and threatens to harm Kong Ji hun's wife. How is he different from all those prisoners? Not to mention the ending. Even if he tried to fight lawfully, he could not. There was one way for him - becoming an anti-hero. Even in the beginning, his motives were selfish in every way. He could have killed off Choi and dealt with it, but he did not.

The ending made sense to me, but not how they handled it. Yes, it was rushed and there were plot holes because of it and god, it did make me frustrated! The series deserved more.

I also loved one detail, and I honestly have no idea if it was intentional or not. The victims not being shown that much or not getting much screen time reminds you how insignificant they are in the whole storyline. No one did anything impactful until they were the ones affected.

Big Mouth is a reminder that the years of corruption cannot be brought down by one man in a short time, and there is no room to act according to rules (Laws) when no one cares about them. It is like playing chess with seagulls.

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☘ Big Mouse >VS< Big Brother ☠ Rolling With It °7.4° °VG°

When I woke up I was a different person: The most despicable louse in the world” He was already an attorney, how much worse could he be😜? Anyway, thus ep1 closes. B👄 opens, however, the night before. It was a dark & stormy night…

We get a brief look at our leading couple as they celebrate their anniversary. Just as the ML, Park Chang-Ho (Cho), is getting into a car accident we jump 7 days back to see how things have been unraveling. “He's got an exceptional mind, he just doesn't get alot of work.” He's the kind of guy who can never quite clear the bar. His pole will snap, or his laces will come untied. He has no connections. His win rate is less than 10%. He was scammed & lost their money.

A week ago, they lost their court case against scammers that had taken their savings, & Cho was representing the plaintiffs. Another loss. As the defense counsel & judge were changed at the last second, things look as kosher as marinated crab legs. The wife (Lim Yoon-A is Go Mi-Ho) is… displeased…

The “D” word comes up. “Divorce”. “I'd have to choose to live w/ Chang-Ho,” dad explains. “You're strong. You'll be fine. But he can't survive without me.” ”But you're MY father!” Mi-Ho really can't comprehend the reasoning.

We're lurched back to now; his car is flipping & by the end of ep2 Cho's life has flipped completely. He was set up to take the fall for the real Big Mouse. He's imprisoned. Everyone thinks he's B🐹. Some want to befriend him, more want revenge. He's been beaten several times & almost killed once. He wants to die. Living ain't easy & sometimes dying isn't either. The crazier he acts, the more the other inmates fear him & the safer he is. His fortune has always been to live a long & unlucky life. Very unlucky. He follows the crumbs & eventually decides the safest thing is to live in prison as B🐹.

“What!? The LAW!?! Flowers that look beautiful from afar. But when you get close, they are growing on the edge of a cliff. The moment you grab onto that flower, attempting to survive, you'll fall off the cliff to your death. A vicious flower planted by those in power. That's what the law is.” ~B🐹~ B👄’s charm is in the everyday couple getting yanked to the world of crime & somehow going Toe-to-Toe w/ these nefarious masterminds. They've got the everyday problems: Debt, bills, hard jobs, losing cases, tough bosses, & they can't afford to have a child. But when pushed into the corner, they manage to outwit criminal syndicates. B👄 shows us how people fundamentally want to follow a strong leader. They prefer a #good strong leader, but people gravitate toward any strength. Power abides where perception resides. Power is basically the result of a group of individuals agreeing (consciously or not) on where & what it is. It's usually 80% illusion.

This show is not issue free; we'll get into it later. Detail oriented left-brainers may get fed up & jump off the wheel. In the balance, B👄 works. The acting is fine. Some of the performances are right on the line but I could 🥐 w/ it. The actor who plays B🐹 did a particularly nice job. Our FL, Lim Yoon-A, is in K2-8.1 - among my 1st Kdramas. I 💘 the show & was blown away by Song Yoon-A's performance as the congressman‘s wife. In K2, Ms Lim's part is one of the weak points. I thought she was mad & remember being stunned that the male lead is attracted to her. To be fair, her character had been through alot. It just didn't play well. She's fine here. In the snake pit, DA Choi Do-Ha, is very Michael Corleone to his Sonny counterpart, Kong Ji-Hoon. Oh Eui-Sik is our ML's aid. I'm a fan. I first saw him in Oh My Ghost-10, a superb show. With 18 credited works on IMDB, he also plays the guitar & sings beautifully. He must be made of pixie dust b/c they are all good shows. Familiar Wife-8.5 was a particular surprise. If you see his name in the credits, it's going to be a good show, pretty much. Who else could play the CAT, I mean, the elder, but Jeon Gook Hwan? He plays the-menace-under-the-controlled-exterior like few others. Ok Ja-Yeon, as hospital director, Joo-Hee, exudes calmness to the point where I settle down alittle just by looking at her, yet she's also a tad scary. She was quite different in Mine-8, to her credit.

Kraft-cheese-wise, um, craft-wise, B👄 is solid. There's just a few holes. Director: Oh Choong-Hwan brings us nothing but hits, like Hotel Del Luna-8.4. There's excellent filming of a person driving while drugged, & a nice shot reflecting off of a black statue. The final shot of ep7, in the dreaded white hall, is perfection. The current trajectory had slowed significantly by then, & things take a hairpin turn just in time. Ep9 is a blast. It Looks like they used the same abandoned pool in ep14 as the one in The Flower of EVIL-8.9. If they did, I love the call out. Midway thru ep15 there's another little tasty twist. The music augments an air of excitement.

The show is a maze. The creatures that are trapped in it scramble & thrash dramatically. Every movement reverberates through the whole system. There's a nice scene where they're underground & disturb a nest of rats that go scurrying. (Finally, rodents appear). The title is a play on words. To the Asian ear, “mouth” & “mouse” sound nearly identical. Cho's nickname is “Big Mouth”, & the notorious crime syndicate ruler’s moniker is “Big Mouse”. Mouse? Who wants to be vermin? A quick goog of mice in Kculture lumps them in w/ rats. Adjectives used are: intelligent, agile, clever, hardworking, & w/ the abilities of foresight. 🔜 “They think they are predators as they run at me, but I'm going to chew them up & kill them.“ It is Cho's big mouth that enables him to pose as Big Mouse.

The backdrop for B👄 burrows into how Korea developed into a first world country. Though its terrain, independent spirit, & relationship w/ China has kept Korea mostly independent, Korea was colonized & generally pushed around in & around the 20th century, particularly by Japan (but the West has dirty hands also). Once the Republic of Korea was formally established (15 August 1948), it remained a military dictatorship from 1961 through 1987. During that time human rights were scarce, but prosperity prospered. Plenty of older voters in K long for the old days, because they were never victimized, while the younger voters, who didn't grow up in the abject poverty their elders did, don't fully appreciate the value of a good economy. (Thus is politics - a never ending cycle of imbalance. Both sides are right. Both sides are wrong). The elder made his money the old fashioned way - by trampling on the rights of the poor. By now, he's created a pile of toxic waste that's on the verge of poisoning not only his empire, but the entire country.

It doesn't work like a perfect mousetrap. The bad thing about B👄 is how it walks the line between taking itself seriously & not taking itself seriously. I can't accuse it of either one of those things. Therefore, I always felt slightly off balance while watching. Should I roll my eyes 🙄 or should I roll 🥐 w/ this? Do they realize they're being silly here, or are we called upon to take that seriously? Nibble. Nibble. Nibble. Thoughts like that kept nibbling at me. The gnawing continued through ep11. In ep12, the show started to be quite a bit of fun. Up until then it wasn't bad, but the nibbling was distracting.

The show does have a couple wandering moles leaving stinky droppings here & there, but it's all tame. For one example, there's a prison escape attempt that is too feeble (groan) (🥐◻🙄☑) The evil doctors are so evil it's cartoonish. People like that, just caught up to the point of being consumed w/ self-satisfaction & unhealthy appetites, exist. (🥐☑🙄◻)

In B🐹, they set up a human being who can't possibly exist, so I was waiting to be somewhere between amused & disgusted by the reveal, but they didn't do such a bad job. It's all implausible, ridiculously so, but for all that, I found it in the range of acceptability. (🥐☑🙄◻)

The granting-of-favors-thing is horrible. He made no attempt to do anything. He was toying w/ people's pain. (🥐◻🙄☑)

Prison politics run on contraband & outside influence (especially the ability to intimidate loved-ones on the outside) as much as muscle. This is not a small logical gap. (🥐◻🙄☑)

False choice. Are you/are you not B🐹? These highly intelligent characters never seem to consider other options, even when it's obvious that if he's not B🐹 they must be connected in some way, given what he knows. (🥐◻🙄☑

The shift mid ep12 is awesome!(🥐☑🙄◻)👍🏿👍🏻👍

Whom do you least suspect? One character came to mind & I dismissed the idea too soon w/ a laugh. In the balance... Another person actually did entirely escape my radar (I top out at average when it comes to figuring things out. I'm usually more focused on artistry. Still, good for them). (🥐☑🙄◻)

One person under B👄 has a perplexing life placement as it nets the organization 🅾. Plot-wise, his double life ties alot of bows, but that's a stale prison roll w/o enough beverage-of-explanation to get it down w/o choking. (🥐◻🙄☑)

If I make it to ep12 of 16, Ima finish it. Despite legitimate criticisms, B👄 closes strong & ep16 is great. It is not low IQ, & intelligent features don't hand-feed viewers. One must walk the maze for several eps to arrive at answers, & they do answer most ❔s (🥐☑🙄◻). B🐹 is cheesy but, in the balance, they are simply having fun. A review of the writer's & director's cache of credibility bolsters that assessment. The left & right brain fight for dominance B🐹 generates does lower its degree-of-difficulty, but if you can just (🥐☑🙄◻) w/ it, B👄 is a fun, albeit bumpy, trek through the Habitrail.


QUOTES📢

You gamble based on your instinct, not on human relations.

Do you know where the perfect place to hide lies is? The truth.

Wait until we see the torso. Don't get worked up about seeing the tail.


〰🖍 IMHO

📣8 📝7.3 🎭7.5 🎨7 🎵/🔊7 🔚8.5 ♦ 🌞5 ⚡6.5 😅3 😭6 😱5 😯4.5 😖4.5 🤔4.5 💤0

Age 14+ violence, other very dark themes

Rated TV-15

Re-📺? It's worth watching once but for me that's probably it.

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İt’s complicated

I have mixed feelings about this drama
Story is too dense it will make you think a lot
Oh, but that ending though…
Really? Dont get this the wrong way but the moment he lost her he barely shed a tear. And after he learnt her illness he did … what for her? I know this is definitely not a romance drama yet I just wanted to see some emotions from his end. This was supoosed to be important cause from the very beginning the male lead claimed that his aim was to protect his family & be with them. And among all that mess this was the one thing he almost seemed to forget.

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I would have given it a 9 or 10 if it wasn't for the sloppy ending. I was pissed for days thinking about it. This drama turned into a Swiss Cheese with the amount of plot holes it left. What was the point of building up the tension for 15 1/2 episodes, when the culmination of the WHOLE drama was done in less than 15 minutes? The ending brough 0 satisfaction. I am a girl but watching the ending gave me an idea what having blue balls must feel like. I wanted revenge not only for the FL but also for the prisoner who was convicted wrongly. What was the point of adding a chaebol serial killer son, when it gave zero contribution to anything?? So many questions were left. When I was watching the last episode I was sure there would be a 2nd season with the amount of unanswered questions but NOPE. I guess the writers forgot the drama was 16 episodes and had to rush everything in the last minute. It was really such a shame.
Otherwise, I liked the drama a lot. The story, while not realistic, was rather fun and fresh. I enjoyed the dynamic of the characters and the perspective it gave about life in prison based on your social standing. Lee Jong Suk's acting was also great. I was constantly wondering if he is really Big Mouth or not. Yoona also played very well, I loved the character they gave her. I will look forward to her future drammas as well.
Overall, this is a nice drama. Just don't watch the last 15 minutes of episode 16 and you will be fine.

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Best epic justice detective 2022 !

Magnificent series! I really like how justice is shown here in all its glory and this idea drives the actions of some of the main characters, which at first glance may seem negative. I would say that this series is all saturated with justice! but at the end it's a bit tragic and sad (I thought it would still be happy end for the heroes, but (... happyend was but in a different way. Damn it captured from the first seconds)) I looked at n.y. and did not regret it! The whole series up to episode 16 keeps u in suspense! It’s not really clear who the main leader of the Big Mouse really is (and it also turned out to be an organization of people that u begin to guess after several events ..) (even after they seemed to make it clear in the face of one character) because every series new faces appear that could her behavior… at the same time.. I think that the main leader of the big mouse didn’t really die, but was a friend of the lawyer Park Chang Ho, -Kim Soon Tae… because the facial expressions look very similar to that.. maybe Jerry , I think, that he is a leader (who immediately gave himself away to avert suspicion from himself and work quietly), but it seems to me that this is actually Pak's lawyer who, like a gray eminence, revealed his identity right at the end .. I really advise u to look, there are intrigues from the first series and each time more and more interesting and do not make it clear who actually framed Pak at the beginning (they also throw up a couple of people from whom the viewer can choose the one who, in his opinion, is the initiator of everything) and who this Big Mouse .. it’s also not clear who was the son of Mr. Kahn .. or they showed him, but I didn’t see his personality in the faces of the characters (because the series is so unclearly and twisted filmed that when events happen, both good and bad, the culprit can be several of them at the same time people, maybe many people look like facial expressions and behavior at once, and it’s really difficult to guess who really is who .. I think this is the coolness of the series and probably the director made a bet on it so that the viewer himself would think " all how and what " , although of course it is strongly twisted. could bring a little clarity on who actually founded the organization of the big mouse and who is this son of Mr. Kahn .. idk .. I looked very carefully, but either missed the answers to my questions or didn’t understand something .. but I still liked it and I I think this series is definitely worth revisiting! the main thing is not to get lost, as everything is very twisted so u need to carefully follow the dialogues and facial expressions in order to understand the actions of the characters.

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