The Killing Vote (2023)

Justice ou vengeance ?!? Le dilemme de "The Killing Vote"...

"The Killing Vote"… rien que le spitch de départ m’a vendu du rêve... un mystérieux “Gaetal” qui envoie un SMS à tout le pays pour décider de la mort de criminels qui ont échappé à la justice ⚖️📱. Franchement, c’est digne d’un thriller qui te colle à l'écran et te fait te poser mille questions sur la morale et la société. Et franchement au début, j’y ai cru 😳🔥. L’ambiance sombre, les premiers épisodes étaient intrigants, le trio de flics et suspects qui s’installe… j’étais à fond 👌🏻

Mais voilà, plus les épisodes avançaient, plus j’ai senti un essoufflement 😮‍💨. Le concept est génial, mais l’exécution ?!?… pas à la hauteur. Je trouve que les dialogues sont parfois trop explicatifs, il y a des twists qui manquent de punch, et l'enquête qui se répète... au point de finir par devenir prévisible 😩

Les personnages, eux, avaient de quoi marquer. Park Hae Jin est solide dans son rôle de profiler taciturne, Lim Ji Yeon est charismatique en flic badass (même si son perso manque parfois de cohérence 😶‍🌫️), et Kwon Seok Joo, le prisonnier brillant et dérangeant. C'est clairement celui qui m’a le plus captivée 🫰🏻. Mais honnêtement, je n’ai jamais réussi à m’attacher complètement à eux... 🤷🏼‍♀️

Et puis cette fin… 😵. Clairement, j’ai eu l’impression qu’on m’arrachait la télécommande des mains... Pouf !rideau, sans véritable décharge émotionnelle... Pas de claque, juste de la frustration...

Alors oui, "The Killing Vote" reste un drama intéressant à découvrir pour son concept fort et ses questionnements sur la justice populaire 👍🏻. Mais à mes yeux, il restera surtout un drama qui avait tout pour être inoubliable… et qui n’a pas su aller au bout de son potentiel 🥲✌🏻

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A Mess

I really had to push myself to finish this one and with them delaying the *final* single episode by a couple of weeks just added more pain to the injury. Finished it today, nothing that would change my mind happened.

I went into this one not really knowing quite what to expect other than the premise sounded interesting - someone called Gaetal organises a vote for whether to execute a criminal that the justice system has failed to handle, and they'll happen regularly. Sounds super interesting.

First couple of episodes go by and i'm starting to build up a picture of where I think it's going - and i'm *really* getting hyped for it to go there. This is a bad thing to do, and leads to disappointment. Don't do that. In my view, they were setting the foundations for a really good discussion about vigilantism, why the system exists, that they'd move on to say that "Gaetal" was a concept rather than an individual and there isn't just one "bad guy" here and so forth. It really looked like it was kinda heading that way. Debate about "if you click yes, are you an accessory to murder" etc. What happens if they get it wrong etc. Lost of really interesting things to discuss here.

Then reality dawns and their goals are far less aspiring and much more plain. I mean it's not bad, it's watchable, but I just feel so let down by it and the potential it had. This had "squid game" level capability written all over it, I could see those dog masks becoming as iconic in modern culture as the masks of the guards on SG.

The ending... it's finished, it's a conclusion, but it leaves you with implications for what would happen next and... i'm sorry, it didn't earn enough credits with me to justify that. Had it been more bold it would have been absolutely ripe for it, and even a potential sequel or even series of series! :)

I guess i'm mostly grumpy that it just feels like so much potential lost, a real opportunity to have a challenging discussion.

Is it watchable and entertaining? Yes. If you like your crime dramas then you will probably get into this. But don't get swept up in the incredible hype set out in the first two or three episodes and you will probably enjoy it more :)

Cast are fantastic - some really great crew here no complaints there at all. Music I don't recall at all (so, not good not bad :) ).

Bah humbug. Etc. :)

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