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A importância do amanhã
Sou muito fã do Ro Woon então resolvi assistir por ele ser um dos protagonistas e acabei me surpreendendo com o drama .Ele aborda temas pesados e vidas tristes que deixam você com aquele sentimento apertado porém depois que a equipe de prevenção resolve tudo vem uma alegria e a vontade de assistir o próximo episódio pra ver mais do universo de jummadung .
Achei muito legal a história de cada um dos membros da equipe e adorei que colocaram os personagens na dinastia joseon que tem uma temática super diferente do que a série propõe e não te deixa enjoar fácil do seriado .
Só achei as músicas fracas , podia ter alguma do SF9 né rsrs . Também achei o episódio do cãozinho meio sem sentido e devem ter feito para dar 16 episódios , é o mais chatinho .
Recomendo muito pra quem curte ação e dramas com plot twist !!
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Shoet stories within the plot
(First of all, I would like to apologize for my english as I'm not a native speaker). If you are doubting whether watching this series or not, do it. The first chapters may be a little slow as they are kind of an introduction to the overall of the series but, as they pass, the better they are. This is my first review as I'm usually lazy to write one but this series really deserves it. It'strue that the general plot / story is a bit slow, but as every chapter tells a new story is very nice. The acting and stories are so emotional i cried easily in more than two chapters but not only because of sadnes but also because of happiness and relief.Was this review helpful to you?
Going up there with my favorites
Look, I don't catch feelings very often. In fact, it takes a lot to get me to tear up. But this show? Yeah, I actually had to pause it a few times to compose myself. To me that says everything about a series, from the writing to the actors. Honestly, if the ending hadn't felt a tad bit rushed it likely would have earned a 10!At first I watched it because I'm a sucker for Grim Reaper stories. Why? I couldn't say, but I love them when they're done well. Granted the initial disclaimer gave me a moment's pause, so I proceeded with caution. I'm so glad I did. For anyone who has felt hopeless, helpless, and clinging to tiny threads of happiness, this show is so satisfying. It validates one's feelings while skillfully challenging them at the same time. Also, for those who love someone dealing with this, it's an eye-opening look at those struggles.
The cast was perfectly chosen, and the character storylines nicely woven together. Nothing in the soundtrack jumped out at me, but that's probably the point. While I might not recommend this to a first-time K-Drama watcher, to the experienced fan it's certainly well worth a look!
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Great Acting, A Bit Of A Downer
This drama has fantastic acting from both the main cast as well as one off side characters. The stories are compelling and well written. If you want a drama that moves you, this one has that in spades. However, I must warn that it is a bit of a tear jerker, and the heavy topics can be a little bit of an emotional tole if you are perhaps in a rough space, or watch too many back to back so keep that in mind. Lastly, it doesn’t have much in the ways of romance if that’s what you’re here for. All in all a great show, although I doubt it’s one I’d rewatch often.Was this review helpful to you?
This is the definition of a beautifully done show.
The fantasy story is emotional and unique, daring to touch some very sensitive problems when portraying the life story of different unfortunate souls. It’s amazing how the heartbreaking situations can have heartwarming outcomes thanks to the effort of our lovely grim reapers. And the revenge that comes afterwards are so just and satisfying!The actings are phenomenal. Just from the look they give each other we could tell thousands of love, pain, hatred but also longings. The chemistry from the main couple is so good and the interactions between the CM team members are so cute!
The characters are very beautifully presented with wide range of emotions and development. And it’s a fashion show every time our boss Goo appears. The visuals from our characters are top-notch!
The atmosphere is mostly serious but sometimes also funny. Dealing with difficult issues regarding life and death, the natural humor that we occasionally get is very appreciated.
The effects are good too. The OST are soo beautifully sad and seeing the different aspect of filming by drones are also cool. Love how iconic the teleportation looks and sounds here.
Overall, it’s definitely a must see if you’re looking for something unlike your typical Kdrama. But brace yourself for the onions cutting ninja!
P/s: can we please get a season 2 please I miss them so much!
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sooo good
I never but never cry because of kdramas but this series made me bawl my eyes out especially the episode with the dog omg.Great cast, I also loved how they showed everyone’s background.
Loved the way they showed sensitive topics such as eating disorders, depression, rape.
the cast is soooo good, their acting was immaculate and I got so attached to the characters.
it has a bit of everything and is definitely one of my favorite kdramas at the moment.
i mainly watch romance kdramas so I did think I’d actually complete it but I couldn’t stop watching.
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Leaving a bad taste, in a less poetic sense
When I firsted started watching this drama I didn't really have any high hopes of what to come, and I wasn't wrong. This kdrama instead of telling a refreshing story about the victims of suicide, it felt more as if I was watching those highschool stop suicide PSAs. The main three reasons that got me to this thought was from the overall storytelling, character motives, and actions that these characters partake in.STORYLINE:
The main gist of the story is our main character Choi joon-woong after encountering two grim reapers koo Ryeon and Lim Ryung Gu, joon-woong trying to stop a suicide, he ends up in a coma, which causes him to become half human and half spirit, which leads our main character joon-woong to join the grim reapers in their work of helping individuals with suicide and the prevention of those suicides. The storyline itself is mostly feels repetitive, the same things happen just in different situations, first our main characters will go out to help a suffering individual, second they will be stuck on how to help them, third they will only have a few minutes let till the person goes through with their suicide, last the main characters will somehow find a way to talk them out of it and cure their depression completely; and the last sequence is what I have with this kdrama, it diminishes the real feelings of these depressed characters and the storylines creates that after one talk with someone who suffered for so long can just "get over their depression with a few minutes of words of encouragement, which doesn't bring any actual satisfaction to the storylines that just have been created, they build up these storylines of these characters just to complete it in one or two episodes from not even major actions in the character life but a motivational speech given by the main characters that hold no substance to the suffering individuals life outside from that one scene. The plot of the show doesn't draw actual realistic conclusions but idealized version of a conclusion that doesn't give the characters any way out of the miserable situation that they are in. An example that comes to mind is the first and second episode, this episode is meant to build the story and how it will progress through out the season. We see the first victim and the build up to how she got where she is. but instead of seeing a story about how she was properly helped our main character just give her a speech and tells her she really doesn't want to die; and it works somehow, all the years of psychological torture that was brought upon this victim from her bully just goes away. the PTSD and the depression just vanished. seen by the decreasing of the percentage of her likelyness to commit suicide, the only Good thing that is given to the victim is that her bully is found out to be a bad person. It doesn't satisfy the actual story that was just built up and the bullying shown to have caused the victim her issues felt less important and more of something that could just be cured from a simple laugh and a wanting to live.
CHARACTER MOTIVES:
The second issue that arise is the motives of the characters not only in the suicidal individuals but our main character himself. We are first introduced to our main character as a guy looking for a job and struggling to fit into the job market, and when he ends up in the coma, his motive are shown from him wanting to wake up and be with his family once more, but after those few scenes, we barely get a glimpse of these motives that where once introduced, our main character feels more like a side character in his own story. Koo Ryoan our female lead feels more intriguing then our actual main character. Joon-woong is supposed to be in his late 20s but acts like a child most of the time, never expressing his motives, but rather whining and complaining about situations rather then trying to figure them out. The only character motive that is fully brought to the front are Koo Ryeon and park jung gil(escort grim reaper) while the writers of this story fleshed these two out, I geuse they forgot to flesh other characters out as well in the process. Back to the suicidal individuals, as soon as a new character is brought into the for-front of the story to be saved they are given these back stories that serve a purpose to their motives on why they don't want to live, and those back stories work but after those back stories we don't actually see the perspectives of these individuals, nor rather how these motives have affected their relationships throughout the story, the kdrama mentions often how the suicides of other affects the living to but we don't see these suicide characters lives, their wanting, nor motive from a deeper sense, ever is very surface level, nothing is deeper then it seems, episode 3 prove that point when looking at the best friend of joon-woong who is planning on killing himself, rather from see a his perspective from a deeper lense or why his motive for killing himself have gotten this deep we see a back in time episode focusing on one event of the characters live rather then the affects that the coma has done to the best friend nor why this is his last straw at life. The main struggle the best friend faced when wanting to get into school and dealing with his sudden loss of his best friend is cleared from eating fried chicken, and that wouldn't be a problem if the story didn't add the decreasing of the likelyness to dies because that fried chicken didn't solve his problems nor did it should a conclusion in the motives on why the Best friend wanted to kill himself. That episode didn't even draw back to joon-woong own character development nor showed a growth in the main characters motives to wake up.
CHARACTER ACTIONS:
lastly one of the major issues I had with this kdrama was the development of character rather the lack there of. Joon-woong at the end of each job never grew as a person nor had any change in his ideas, he felt constant, he would learn something one episode but the next episode do something the contradicted what growth he had. One major that comes to mind when looking at development, and not only development but all three ideas mentioned in the story, is Sin Ye Na, who was the suicidal individuals suffering with an eating disorder in episodes 7-8 when where first introduced to her she seems happy and content untill the story starts to focus on her and what she truly is going through, her motives and actions come to the for-front of the story but when it comes time to actually deal with it...we see scenes of her feelings and those scenes escalates to her attempt which ends with our main character she barely knows doing the exact thing she hated which was judge her on her appearance, and then he does another speech he's been doing through out the entire story that convinces this victim that she should love her self. Even saying this annoys me . The fact stands that the story tries to run with this and shows how the character is struggling but from on person telling her she's just good the way she is it stops her eating disorder immediately. No progress is made. Nothing was actually addressed we learn about her having an eating disorder and it's fixed right after. The story builds it up to be this extremely prevalent thing in the suicidal individuals life that she can't stop and it has been engraved in her since highschool but as soon as we are learned about it, the author wrap the story up. It frustrating to see this because this story is supposed to be this inspiring story about mental health and the trials and tribulations that someone has to get to take their lives and how that can be prevented, but it doesn't do that is uses these mental illness rather the the main focus, a backdrop on a dramatize story to get the audience entertained. As this drama tries to spread a message about the mental health, it bring old stereotypes into pace , such as mental health could be stoped if people really tried hard enough, this drama felt like a cop out. It didn't bring in thing into conversation , it sometimes made these characters look like they didn't want out of their situations rather then people who where stuck in their situations. This drama could have worked but it didn't they add these big ideas but never went anywhere with them nor did they try to address to actually issues that mental health had.
This drama on its own is the kind of drama you have to close your brain and watch, the acting wasn't the best, I don't know if it wasn't from directing but the actors themselves but it just didn't feel like anything in the story was actually being taken seriously....well at the end of the day the kdramas out and these are just my opinions.
(Sorry for grammar mistake and run on sentences, I just be writing stuff as soon as they come to mind )
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THIS KDRAMA IS SO GOOD ISTG
EVERYTHING IN THIS SHOW IS PERFECTION. THE CASTS, EACH EP IS SO GOOD, THE STORYLINE. OVERALL IS JUST A CHEF KISS. NO WORDS CAN DEFINE HOW GOOD THIS KDRAMA IS. I LOVE IT WITH ALL MY HEART. KIM HEESUN AND LEE SOO HYUK PLEASE DROP YOUR SELCA EVERYONE IS DYING TO SEE IT. THIS IS SO GOOD I SWEAR.500 WORDS, 500 WORDS, 500 WORDS In order to activate your account we need to verify your email. Please check your inbox and verify your email address. Re-send verification email.EVERYTHING IN THIS SHOW IS PERFECTION. THE CASTS, EACH EP IS SO GOOD, THE STORYLINE. OVERALL IS JUST A CHEF KISS. NO WORDS CAN DEFINE HOW GOOD THIS KDRAMA IS. I LOVE IT WITH ALL MY HEART. KIM HEESUN AND LEE SOO HYUK PLEASE DROP YOUR SELCA EVERYONE IS DYING TO SEE IT. THIS IS SO GOOD I SWEAR
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Just perfect drama to watch
Personaly i don't like kdramas with drama involved between lovers. Since there was nothing like that i enjoyed it alot. This drama is perfect when you need a break from crime dramas or romances because the main gender is neather of these. I did not get spoiled about this drama so i knew nothing about it. I started watching it because of cast and because of how popular it is. I am surprised how i enjoyed the fantasy gender in this because i lived in that mindset that i will not like it. If you liked this drama you should watch Doom at Your Service as well. Have a nice day<3Was this review helpful to you?
Prepare your tissues for the best grim reaper kdrama ever. I want season 2 . HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS!
I fell in love with this drama. I wasn’t expecting to love it so much. I just started it because I was browsing but let me tell you. I binge watched it. Like literally 7 hours of 7 episodes and I cried or sobbed 10 times in those 7 episodes. I am not lying. This cleansed my eyes more than anything else.I fell in love with the cast and not just the main but everyone. The stories covered were amazing, I loved the characters that Koo Ryun, Park Joong Gil, Im Ryun goo, Choi Joon Woong, and Jade Emperor played!
I can’t explain how sad I am writing thing right now because it’s over.
Please please pretty please I want season 2 with the same cast.
It was emotional but it made me feel better. It was funny too and I just fell for all the actors.
Thank you for making this amazing and wonderful show. Please create a season 2 for this. I highly request you. A loooot of people are anticipating it.
Thank you again to the on screen and off screen staff for this spectacular show and concept. I loved it. HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT! <3
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A decent attempt at addressing suicide
It was a difficult show to get into. The lead actor hamming it up in the early episodes almost made me drop it, since it came off as bad acting rather than just being goofy. But it got better.The emotional moments are well handled with tearjerking scenes each episode.
The pacing is brilliant. It largely benefits from the case of the week formula, so there isn't a feeling that things are dragging.
Perhaps the most important thing is that it gets better towards the end which is often enough for me to rate a drama highly.
Despite how well the show handles suicide attempt, I feel it did a terrible job at addressing depression. It treats suicide like an on and off switch, all solved once the characters are taken off the ledge, which we know isn't how it works in reality. Now I know it's not supposed to be realistic but for a dark themed show, I think it could have afforded a deeper dive into depression for at least a few of the characters.
All in all, I would recommend this show to anyone who loves after-life fantasy dramas. It's a good one.
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I haven't been able to enjoy dramas quite the same after watching Tomorrow. The drama raises the bar in terms of characters, story depth, meaning and execution. Around ep5, I was totally hooked, and by the end, I was sad to say goodbye but at the same time, also happy to do so as well. If you watch it, this will make a lot of sense to you lol.
Each story involves people who are at a point in their life where they want to end their life. There is also the major story arc that gradually unravels itself. The stories do get a whole lot darker, heavier and more personal for the main characters. The ending to each is really special and precious. The pacing and order of the stories are well thought out.
"Someday, Because of You" made me bawl my eyes out, followed by "Spring" which was the saddest to me.
This is easily one of my top 5 dramas that's gonna stay with me for a really long time.
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