Truth And Consequences
The trolley dilemma, where truth is elusive and contingent on perspective. Trolley is a slow burner which peels backs the many layers of truth and alters our own perception of it in the process. Chung Su-Bin gives an absolutely mesmerizing, magical performance as a young woman caught in the eye of a storm. A thoughtful, intelligent drama where nothing is quite what it appears to be on the surface . An unflinching and often devastating look at the consequences of the choices we make for the "greater good" .Was this review helpful to you?
Not Good Enough
Korean Drama " Trolley " is a political- family melodrama. It centers around a woman who appears to be the perfect wife and mother, but she hides secrets that are about to come out.The drama starts out quite intensely, and keeps things that way for some episodes. However, it starts deteriorating soon after, with the rest of the drama being boring and full of tropes. The twists were predictable and the plot kept dragging for no reason. In the end, everything was too messy to be set right smoothly.
At least the performances were enjoyable, especially by the leading lady.
So, overall, three out of ten.
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A Sketchy Tramway
They had a solid idea for a drama but they were totally clueless for how to fit it into a 16 episodes mold. The trolley dilemma was a poor idea to implement in the drama. They were afraid that the viewers may not notice so they went ahead to explain the trolley dilemma multiple times. The FL's kid was learning about it with visuals in school. Kinda insulting. Its finale execution of this analogy turned out to be disappointing and bland, especially after shoving it in our faces endlessly and having the drama named after it. Anyway, the drama was plagued by narrative and writing problems, especially with its horrible and dysfunctional characterization.Was this review helpful to you?
Awful plot twists
Really i have never been so disappointed with a tv show, ever. This k drama starts with a serious and powerful argument, promising greatness becauae of very good casting and again, arguments. But NO... at episode 12 or so, everything started to crumble in a very confusing way. All the arguments at the beginning seemed to fade away for no reason, main characters started to be unrecognizable and actually i dont even know what was the final objective. Just awful. If you watch it prepare for very lazy writing...Was this review helpful to you?
Trainwreck
The solution to trolley problem, according to this drama, is a trainwreck.Don't chose between few and many, just pile them up on top of each other and sabotage the wheels too so the trolley falls over too after running over everyone else.
And true to that notion, the final episodes are absolute trash.
Not that the first 3/4 or so were so great, either. It was an extremely slow melodrama, with awfully dumb and naive FL who was not at all sympathetic even tho the story did everything to paint her as such. Truly the slowest story progression I've ever seen. And if only the plot reveals were worth it! But no, it jumped from one lackluster reveal to another, in between constant flashbacks to shit we've already seen and prolonged scenes like FL taking a whole minute to decide to answer a phone call or not EACH AND EVERY TIME.
But the absolute garbage the story turned in the end is second to none.
The morals are very sus too ,"sympathize with rapist if he committed suicide" and "tell on your own family if they broke the law" aren't things I can agree with.
Not even superb acting from almost everyone involved, especially Park Hee Soon and Kim Mu Yeol, could save this one. The camera work, scenery and soundtrack were wasted too (not that the ost is that strong anyway, it had like one memorable melody it kept overusing). Don't let anyone fool you by saying this is a mature drama for mature people, it's trash. It's also not makjang, it's not a thriller, nor is it similar to some other titles MDL recommends below, it's no Misty.
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