The Worst of Evil

A DARK CLASSIC IN THE MAKING

It is a drama that takes hold from the very first episode and never loses its momentum. The lead actor, Ji Chang Wook delivers a performance that defines the series. He embodies both menace and vulnerability, making the character unpredictable and unforgettable.

The writing is equally strong, carefully balancing crime, loyalty, and emotion. The love triangle adds another dimension, creating tension that isn’t just about romance but about trust, betrayal, and survival. It pushes the story into even more powerful territory, making every decision matter.

What makes this drama stand out is how carefully it balances its noir edge with human emotion. It has the grit, the suspense, the atmosphere of noir masterpiece, but it never loses sight of the character at its core.

This is the best Kdrama I’ve watched so far, and honestly, the type of drama I’d recommend to my film club friends. It’s not just worth watching, it’s worth rewatching again and again.

Plot 10/10
Acting and Characters 10/10
Cinematography 9.5/10
Writing 9.5/10
Pacing 10/10
OST/Score 9.5/10

Overall 10/10

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Emotional Rollercoaster

Tldr; 12 eps was perfect for this plotline. I think the ending was a perfect ending to the situation and the acting from everyone was phenomenal. OST.. can't even remember the music lol

The drama starts off with JM, an underdog cop who can't get higher than his desk cop rank. He married into a renowned cop family where everyone is basically a high ranking cop - even his wife. You can see that the marriage is already stained from ep 1 because his in-laws constantly shits on him about his rank in the police world and no matter how many sweet words his wife can whisper into his ears, the wound is too deep. (You know what they say about men who feel inferior).

JM gets proposed by one of his cop sunbae and friend to go undercover and infiltrate KC's gang so they can take down the drug trafficking triad. He only accepts with the condition of getting promoted (see how deep his wound is? and how desperately he wants to prove that he's worthy to his wife & in-laws?)

He joins under a alias and this is the beginning of JM's downfall. At the beginning, he tries his best to stick to his morals and his duty as a copy, but if everyone in the gang keeps suspecting you... it's kind of hard to be all bark and no bite ESP in a gang where they kill. His wife, EJ finds out that he went undercover and ofc.. his wife is KC's first love. Obviously with this known, even if she didn't want to participate in the investigation, she HAS to be part of it bc KC knows her.

I know this adds to the plot.. but let's talk about EJ. Her character was bland to me. I don't hate the actress but her character gave nothing but a headache to the plotline. I guess we can say that JM really turned into someone who didn't want to be in order to protect her but she really just put herself back into the situation of always being there even when it wasn't needed. Sure her first move was helpful to JM to get deeper into the gang and to gain KC's trust... but grass is always greener on the other side.

The love triangle begins and this was when I got annoyed of the drama. Here's an example of how the industry not knowing how to write strong FL. After the 3rd... 4th... 5th time EJ met up with KC for NO GOOD REASON, was when you can tell that she was masking her feelings by trying to convince herself that she was only doing this for her husband.

YES, both JM and EJ cheated and their marriage was doomed from the start. I will say... EJ really caught feelings and JM just felt bad for HR like he did for KC. He was able to relate to the both of them bc of his own fucked up past. If he really like HR is one thing, but I know (& the audience can see) that he was conflicted and confused with his actions towards HR. I want to say he's been undercover for so long and him and EJ weren't able to communicate, he was weak. But he still cheated.

The down fall of the gang was not bc KC got involved with EJ again. It was bc he got emotional about Taeho. His inner circle kept telling him how sus how everything was happening since JM joined the gang and he didn't listen. Sure he did a mere background check, but as someone who is the big boss of his gang.. he really done goofed in believing people when he should know that documents can be forged.

The brotherhood of the drama was strong until it wasn't. There's always a power struggle and jealousy and betrayal - this is why you can't get emotional about the past and just let people walk away after betraying you.

My take on the last 20 mins of ep 12. JM felt an emotional bond to KC no matter how much he wants to deny it. That's why he gave him the opportunity to escape and actually live the good life he wanted/dreamt of. But KC's (lk) obsession over EJ was his downfall. When the 3 of them were in the couple's house, you can already see the dynamic has shifted. EJ couldn't see JM the same anymore, JM couldn't forget everything that he has done and what has happened when he was undercover, and KC.... he was too wrapped up in trying to figure out if EJ really loved him to understand the great opportunity JM gave him.
I find the talk between a mafia boss and a cop about being sinners funny. After all he has done, he talks about being a sinner but blames EJ about being a sinner for mm.. essentially doing her job. & EJ talking about how she will repent for the rest of her life for... ONCE AGAIN, doing her duty as a cop. IDC if he was your first love, he's a mafia boss who kills and is importing drugs into your country. To think, someone who grew up in a cop family, she'd have a stronger mindset. But back to the point... I believe that JM shot KC when he was about to unalive himself was bc it was his last attempt to show his wife that he loves her. I know.. that sounds weird bc he just SHOT someone in front of her BUT my point is, he knew that if KC unalived himself in front of them, EJ will blame herself for the rest of her life. If JM shot him, she will have him to blame. Their marriage ending was a good choice.

The ending was great for the situation. I personally don't think there needs to be a season 2 (if there even is one) bc season 2 will have a new plotline and probably a new cast. They've exhausted every character they could in this season.

Oh and one last thing... considering how this is BIBI's first real role. She DELIVERED. I loved her character more than EJ. The chemistry between BIBI and JCW was 100000/10.

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✒ ⚠️ Act like your life is on the line °7.7° °excellent°

Testosterone is back!

It opens Hard Boiled 🥊🤾‍♂️🔩 ~ Chow Yung Fat would be proud. I recently watched Oldboy-9, and it seems like we're back in the same hallway fighting under that ghoulish green light. We only get a peek at the extreme violence. A man and woman look at e/o at opposite ends of the hall. He starts fighting his way over to her. Blood splatters. Then we jump back in time.

It's 1994. They're both getting into a car while discussing her next assignment. She's being transferred to the Security Division; she's law enforcement. Her whole family are cops. The photo on the living room wall showing everyone in the uniform, except for Mom-in-a-Hanbok, is proof of that.

It's obvious that the family doesn't think much of Mr. Park “Jun” Mo (Ji Chang Wook from the wonderful Lovestruck in the City-7.3, The K2-8 and the average Backstreet Rookie-6.4). This lowly detective is NOT worthy of their family member, his wife, Yoo “Ui” Jeong (Im Se Mi from Wonderful World-7.8 & My Dearest Nemesis). She doesn't agree. She says her brothers are jerks. Her mother's been in the hospital, long-term, and that keeps the family in more regular contact then usual, unfortunately for Jun.

Wi Ha Joon (Bad and Crazy, Midnight) is DJ Jung “Gi” Cheol. He's not living disrespected. He's appreciated. Adored, even. He wishes the gangsters didn't like him so much, though. They're pushing him to take over a nightclub. ‘Why would you want to keep working as a DJ for a club when you can own one?’ It's tough to refuse the kinds of offers that they make. We pop over to 1995 and see that he settled into the role quite naturally. Fast forward to current day, and he's a mob boss running several businesses along with a large criminal network. He has maintained every bit of his natural charm, to boot.

Jung Man Shik (Vagabond-8, Iris-8) as Jang Gyeong Cheol was born to play a gangster. In one scene he's mostly naked and his body is covered in tattoos. It's impressive. When Gi suggests they sell drugs at the nightclub, he has a fit. But Gi and his boys need to make more money! Gi recruits a rival organization to take over Gangnam with him. He's settled on pushing out his overlords. Soon, authorities from Japan and Korea are discussing the influx of drugs from Korean gangs to the streets of Japan. They're going to need an insider to root out the problem. One of them has an idea for the best candidate. Some might think he's a lowly detective, but he's actually got a wild side. Jun doesn't want to do it ~ at all. But this might be his only chance for a promotion.

Undercover it is.

TWoE is a 2023 release that is rated 93 on AWiki. It is 1 season consisting of 12 53-minute episodes. Gi is now a top-tier gangster. He's ruthless, and he's a brilliant strategist. This assignment will take everything Jun has. Jun poses as the cousin of Tae Ho, Gi's lifetime BFF whom he lost to a turf dispute. The way Jun gets inside the gang is written well.

It doesn't take long for Jun to learn that Gi grew up with his wife. They were in the same church youth group. Things are tangled. After Gi sees his childhood sweetheart hanging out with Jun, he wants to talk to Jun about her. ‘Why did she marry some small town bumpkin cop?’ He was able to get a photo of her husband pulled from the police department! (Fortunately, they had already substituted Jun's photo with someone else's. Moves and counter-moves splatter the show). “Who's more handsome, me or him?” “You are, boss,” Jun mumbles.

Nobody likes the new guy being in tight with the boss so quickly. It creates friction in the organization. Soon, Jun is asked to murder someone to maintain his credibility. No matter what he does, suspicions abound. He's constantly on the move to maintain his cover.

Gi has success in (all kinds of) business, so now he's ready for success in love. Seeing Ui again causes him to remember how much he cares about her. The department learns how he feels about Ui and starts using her to distract him while other things are going on. Jun is losing his mind over that.

Cha Rae Hyoung (The Good Detective,12.12: The Day) & Im Sung Jae (Newtopia, Extraordinary Attorney Woo) make fantastic thugs. One is cold, thin, and ruthless, while the other is emotional and rotund. BIBI (Hopeless, Gangnam B-Side) is impeccable as Lee Hae Ryeon, a beautiful, stylish, and very dangerous woman. She's actually the best thing in the show. I love her look, her manner, her voice… I want to see her in everything. (Girl crush?) Yoon Kyung Ho (Team Bulldog: Off-duty Investigation, A Birth) is slimy and gross as Det. Hwang Min Gu.

Ye Soo Jung (An Old Lady) gets to play a Korean female Walter White! She usually portrays a good person. My first look at her was as a nun in the show, Mine-8, and she's fabulous in it. Link: Eat, Love, Kill-6.7 should be much better, but one thing that makes the show worth watching is her performance. She's having a blast and it's quite obvious. Here, she's the "Professor", and she cooks meth. Seo Yi Ra (Connection, Moving-8.5) portrays Wendy, a junkie. She does a really nice job. The screenwriter is Jang Min Seok (Secret Reunion, Maundy Thursday) and the directors are Han Dong Wook (New World, Man in Love) and Park Geun Beom (Adulthood, Girl on the Edge). None of them has done very much in the last 10 years. Looks like there's a story there.

Ever see a date where both parties check to make sure their guns are operational first? Jun and wife, Ui, are on mirroring journeys. She has to play nice with the mobster (Gi's also a man she sincerely cares about) and he ends up having to play nice with a Chinese drug supplier who's taken a fancy to him. Both of the extramarital relationships are on the fast track, and the 2 couples must socialize, at times. This is a world where trust is the rarest commodity. As these people fall in love, they still acknowledge they might have to shoot their beloved.

It would be rare for a feature like this to not have its foibles. There's more intricacy - more moving parts. One shooting I heartily disapprove of - I don't like what they did with about 10 minutes to go. It's bitter. One could make the argument that TWOE is just a touch hokey, but the same applies to most Hollywood features, and most of them are much dumber than this.

There are more quality touches than shortcomings. When Gi's friend is stabbed in ep1, the blood stain on his shirt looks almost black. It augments the horror and the darkness. Like any undercover cop drama, this can get tense. Jun is under constant pressure. His immediate superior wants to pull the plug on the investigation, but the chief smells a big win and decides to gamble with Jun's life. There are heartbreaking repercussions. One of the gangsters actually makes reference to Chow Yung Fat, Hong Kong 80's action star. I saw a couple of his films, back in the day, and recognized the early call-outs immediately.

This show is much more violent than any other Kdrama I've seen, except Moving-8.5 and The Man From Nowhere-8.9. (Oh, let's not forget Oldboy-9. That film is in its own category). Gi brings Ui to the office. Another gang shows up, and it's war. Jun is hacking attackers apart. He's covered in blood. His suit had been white. Now it's red, brown and black. Ui can't unsee that.

“Do you think that we can go back to who we were?” Ui wants to know. In this line of work, particularly undercover, there's no way to do the right thing at every moment. It's all a balancing act and a series of choices. Jun does the best he can to make the best choice in every situation. He does better than his bosses, who are willing to trade their underlings for their own ambition. In the end, one could argue that the police brass are the worst. Maybe on paper, their acts aren't the worst, but the way they abuse their privilege and position is. Many criminals have limited choices. I think that we should punish white collar crime with stiffer penalties than we do regular street crime. People who have been given the most by our society, and yet still abuse it, are more depraved, yet we give them a pass. “I may be a sinner, but you used my trust against me. Isn't that a sin too?” Gi poses a valid question.

Choices. Gi always maintains a moral superiority over his fellow criminals. We learn his mother was devout and he was raised in the church, which is where he met Ui. Gi is likable. Truly. But, Gi made bad choices. Jun faced difficult choices and nearly slipped into the abyss. The police brass made selfish choices and it led to tragedy. In the end, Gi was offered a chance for a renewed life. Changing course will lead to freedom and disperse regrets. Not changing course will lead to regrets so heavy, only death will provide sufficient relief. What choice will he make? TWoE tells us that it's never too late to switch course and do the right thing. TWoE encourages viewers to make the right choice. Consequently, watching this show is the right choice for most.


QUOTES🗣

Whether it's meat or people you have to weigh them yourself.

Not knowing your place is also a disease.

If the law fears the underworld then our children will have to live in barbaric times.


IMHO〰🖍


📣8 📝7.5 🎭8.2 💓5 🦋4.5 🎨7 🎵/🔊7 🔚🤗4.5 ▪ 🌞3.4 ⚡7.3 😅2 😭5.3 😱4 😯5 🤢7.3 🤔4 💤0

Age 18+ Language: R-rated F💣s. Machetes, baseball bats, clubs- /substantial/ violence. Rated: 18+


Re-📺? I probably won't because it makes me sad


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"The Worst of Evil" it's a drama about a cop named Joon Mo that goes undercover in a gangster organization, to find the drug rings and buyers. There he gets closer to their leader Gi Cheul and do basically everything to wins his trust. The problem is how deeper Joon Mo is willing to go and how much he's willing to lose to achieve his goal.

Joon Mo and Gi Cheul's relationship is the drama's strong point. Seeing their friendship grow and how Gi Cheul trusted Joon Mo, like a brother, his betrayal hits him harder when the learns the truth.

There is a single mistake in the drama for me and it consists of a woman. There was no need for the Eui Jeong's character or at least her involvement in the case, because besides not helping anything, all the problems happened because of her, her decisions. I would much prefer it to focus only on the relationship between Gi Cheul and Joon Mo, showing the bond they created, depending on each other. Eui Jeong only served to cause confusion, using Gi Cheul's feelings. Yes, Joon Mo used Hae Ryun's feelings too, but he never said he loved her, it didn't come to that, he wasn't that cruel. But in the end the plan backfired, as Gi Cheul actually took appropriate revenge, because when he died, it was clear that Eui Jeong liked him and this destroyed any chance of reconciliation between her and Joon Mo.

The story is very good, I love investigations involving gangsters, because there are always great action scenes that are intense, fast and bloody. Highlighting the bloodbath in episode 9, Joon Mo totally freaked out and I loved it. The way he moved, it was as if he was completely out of control, acting on instinct... incredible.

It couldn't be bad with Ji Chang Wook and Wi Ha Jun as the main characters <3

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Subpar at Plot, Amazing Acting

I had high expectations of this drama because of the cast, but I’m afraid it was disappointing with respect to the writing. I thought that acting was amazing throughout, but I simply couldn’t get into the story. It wasn’t engaging enough and relied on making one side weaker without substantial reasons for the other side to win. If you’re looking for an intense crime thriller with an interesting plot, you’ll feel the latter doesn’t quite catch up. It’s intense nonetheless. It’s also quite brutal with all the action scenes, but most of them feel like it’s for the ‘vibes’.

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briliant my ass

yet, i got to kind of movie based on review. at the top rev, briliant., good, what a movie and so on.
and geot confidence this series is good. ist it? nope.. big NO.
how people see this briliant?
the stupid idea that the police who try to solve the problem with recruit a low rank officer and involved his wife? do you think with thoose idea that low rank piceman allow it? in real life i think those two chief ccops will murdered with cold bold qnd leave the police to join the gang. the story is awfull. briliant? yet another korean movie that show their cops dint have good competensi to solve problem. yet a korean movie show using stupidty to gain viewer attention. briliant? briliant my ASS. done at 5

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Shocking and fascinating reality

I have watched three episodes and I can say that I already like it. This drama has a good storyline that is unexpected or even has the effect of surprise, even though many Korean detective dramas are already recognized, this story is fresh and has unexpected twists and turns in every episode - it's exciting and keeps me in suspense like it.
The acting is first-class in all GG. Especially Ji Chang Wook - his transformation as an actor is impressive. The battle scenes are so real that you start to worry on a physical level about the condition of the actors. The fight scenes in the drama were perfectly staged without equipment, everything was real and raw.
I also like the interaction between Jang Wook and Ha Joon. I think that this will be revealed to a greater extent later in the plot.
I also liked the OSTs. All without exception.
Looking forward to further episodes.

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Drama portrays every thing was easy then or the people were fooled easily

JCW is one of my favourite guys. I read some of the 10star reviews of this drama, here on MDL. But had to force myself to watch till episode 3. Didn't like anything - how easy it was to take over the gangnam by killing the old boss, how easily JCW fooled the boss, passed off as dead friend's cousin and became the must trusted guy and how easily they killed off the Busan gang leader. Just too easy and I find it hard to believe.
I liked JCW actions, he's does best of the best actions. The fight scenes are well acted.
P.S. does using cuss words in every f***ing line make it a good 90s crime drama. Felt more like teens acting off as grown-ups by using big cuss words.

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100% Recommended!! Incredible cast, storyline and brilliant plot execution ( An early stage review)

I WANTED TO BE THE FIRST TO REVIEW THIS SO BAD xD( tho i 100% sound so immature)

This has undoubtedly been the most awaited series this year and I was so excited for it that I watched all three episodes right at release time and I have to say, it certainly DID NOT disappoint. I think that the show's lineup of actors Ji Chang Wook and Wi Ha Jun is pretty interesting because the plotline of this drama seems like its mixing together Ji Chang Wook's ambitious, tenacious character and Wi Ha Joon's somewhat sweet but a psycho character from their previous works really perfectly. And ofcourse their acting in this show is just AMAZINGG and so coooooooooooool.

It gives me the vibes that I got from flower of evil and little women- that whole "Turned bad to survive in a cruel and unfair world" feeling if ya'll get what I mean.

Don't want to spoil anything much for anyone but I'll just say that this seems like a very promising drama at its current stage and if you liked tv shows like Flower of evil and Little women this is a must recommend as this tv show also shows a lot about how the real world is and how it changes people in a very raw and realistic manner.

It's a representation of how some "bad" people just ended up in that place trying to protect what's dear to them whether its their friend, family or even their dignity.

I hope my rating for this show stays 10/10 till the end ;)

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Wow

This show is so underrated, ji Chang wook is soo good and this drama is a 10 out of 10, not just the main character but the supporting characters are also great. Kudos to the director he did a good job with the emotional, actions and many other things
If you aren’t watching this yet do so right now
This show is so underrated, ji Chang wook is soo good and this drama is a 10 out of 10, not just the main character but the supporting characters are also great. Kudos to the director he did a good job with the emotional, actions and many other things
If you aren’t watching this yet do so right now

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