- Great acting
- Back with even crazier, darker & more chaotic
- Like a rollercoaster full of revenge, betrayal & shocking twists -- stressed but addicted
- Intense pacing
- Some parts are unbelievable
- Few moments felt messy or too dramatic
- Still enjoyed and want to keep watching until the end
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Still as exaggerating as ever given this scriptwriter
LIKEWas it necessary to show do many different angles on Da Mi's death? - lol
When K asked how was Do Min Hyuk still alive? How was it possible? - everything is possible with this scriptwriter
Ha Na and Ji Suk - they were so good I totally bawled
When Do Min Hyuk pressed the emergency button and K had to rush all the way to rescue him - hilarous!
Jin Mo and Myung Ji's love for each other - touching
The moment when Ki Tak realised the truth from Ra Hee - wow wow
DISLKE
Disgusting Ra Hee - her character was just annoying and I don't even pity her situation
MUSIC
Not to my liking
REWATCH VALUE
Five for now
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Makjang to the highest level
I knew going in that this drama would be extreme in every way possible. But since I watched the first part, had to finish it with this second part.This second season has introduced 2 new characters and of these 2, I'm not liking the aunt. Does she really talk that way??? Acting wise...thumbs down for me. The show has put in so much twist and turns that it feels like it has now become dragging. I just watched ep 12 and franky, fast forwarded several scenes. I'm getting tired just thinking about those 4 last episodes coming.. (Tired but still watching till the end).
As expected, the story has veered far.... far... far.... far off course to the point that you might have forgotten how it started out in the first place. Ah, Bang Da Mi, the series of events your demise triggered....... totally unrecognizable.. LOL
Anyway, they should have stopped this series at ep 10 because it has honestly been going on for too long.....
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The Escape of the Seven: A review that sees beyond the surface
I finally finished this show and I pushed it because of the reviews I saw which were mostly negative. But I didn’t have anything to watch and I finally watched it, and here is what I took from it; (still asking myself why I didn’t watch it sooner)When I first started, I noticed something strange. Everyone around me — reviewers, casual viewers, even some fans — kept talking about Dami.
"It's a revenge drama for Dami."
"Dami deserved better."
"The show lost its way because Dami didn't get justice."
“Why didn’t Dami come back.”
And I couldn't help but think: Did we watch the same show?
Because from the very first episode, it was clear to me that The Escape of the Seven was never about Dami. She was important, yes — her death was the spark that lit the fire. But she was never the fire itself.
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What the Show Is Actually About
At its core, The Escape of the Seven is a story about evil, consequences, and the slow unraveling of people who thought they could escape their sins.
· It's about K — the insecure, manipulative puppet master who uses everyone around him to destroy everything and the one person who threatens his identity: Do Hyuk.
· It's about the seven villains — cruel, selfish, broken people who stumble into each other's lives and slowly, painfully, begin to realize the weight of what they've done.
· It's about Do Hyuk — the reckless thug with a good heart, who becomes the target of K's obsession and finds himself caught between revenge, love, and forgiveness.
Dami? She's the sacrifice. The tragedy that sets everything in motion. The innocent life that reminds us why these villains need to fall.
But she was never the main character.
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The Love Story Everyone Misunderstood
One of the most misunderstood parts of the show is the relationship between Do Hyuk and Mo Ne.
Most viewers saw Mo Ne as a villain — cold, selfish, irredeemable. They saw Do Hyuk as a fool for loving her and forgiving her, especially after she left him to die in Season 1. (I am even angry that they didn’t really let them end together visibly at the finale)
But here's what they missed:
Mo Ne was never just a villain. She was a survivor.
She built walls to protect herself from a world that had always been cruel. Her selfishness was armor. Her ambition was survival ( remember when they showed us how her brothers treated her and her mother and why she started what she started. Not agreeing with her but bullying and whatever she did started there, if we really watched her character from the first episode). And Do Hyuk? He was the first person who saw through those walls — and stayed.
Their love story is not about grand confessions or perfect romance. It's about cracks — the small, almost invisible fissures in Mo Ne's walls that Do Hyuk gently, patiently widened until she finally learned to let him in.
And yes, she betrayed him. But that betrayal wasn't proof that she didn't love him. It was proof that she wasn't ready. Yes, she began to like him but she was still that person, the ambitious, selfish person we knew.
Do Hyuk understood that. He forgave her — not because she deserved it, but because he loved her. Because he saw the little light in her, even when she couldn't see it herself.
And by the end, Mo Ne did change. Not overnight — not in a cheap, unearned redemption arc — but slowly, painfully, authentically.
She went from a woman who cared only about money and fame to someone who would give herself up to protect Do Hyuk. (She protected him by the end afterall and redeemed herself). She went from a bully, selfish, ambitious person who would do anything to put herself first to someone who asked for forgiveness and wanted to live justly.
Why he forgave her easily but not the others when she is done arguably worse than others even to him?
when he says he won't forgive Rahee or the others, it's not because they don't deserve it. It's because he doesn't care about them the way he cares about Mo Ne. He doesn't have the emotional investment to want to see their redemption.
But Mo Ne? He wanted to forgive her. He was looking for a reason to. And when he saw even a flicker of a reason in her, he grabbed onto it — because forgiving her meant keeping her in his life.
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The Reviewers Got It Wrong
Most reviewers failed to see any of this. They got stuck on Dami. They got stuck on "justice." They got stuck on surface-level morality — "Mo Ne is bad, so why does Do Hyuk forgive her?"
But they missed the chessboard — the game K was playing, the pieces he was moving, the real story beneath the chaos.
They missed that the seven villains were never just villains. They were people — broken, cruel, worst people but ultimately human. And their growth wasn't instant or easy. It was earned. Their growth started as they feared K, but ultimately they began to know the weight of what they did
They missed that Do Hyuk's love for Mo Ne was the most human part of the show — irrational, inconsistent, and completely blind to logic. Do Hyuk didn’t ask anything of Mone, I mean it may have started as a crush but ultimately it grew into something more from his side. He was angry when he was betrayed, He was hurt, yes. But she really didn’t promise him anything, and from what I’ve seen he loved her more than he loved being right,
And they missed that Dami was never the protagonist — she was the catalyst.
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Final Verdict
The Escape of the Seven is not a perfect drama. It's messy, chaotic, and sometimes overwhelming. But it's not confusing — it's misunderstood. Anyone who went to see it knowing what they were getting into didn’t get confused because the drama told us what it was about from even the title (I am still angry that I let the reviews judge it and I let it get to me before)
It's a show about evil and its consequences. About people who thought they could escape their sins — and the slow, painful unraveling that follows.
It's a show about love that doesn't make sense, forgiveness that isn't logical, and redemption that isn't earned easily.
And if you watch it with open eyes — if you look beyond Dami, beyond the chaos, beyond the surface — you'll see something truly special.
You'll see a story about cracks and walls, about games and pawns, about broken people trying — and often failing — to become something more.
people got fixated on Dami, and that fixation blinded them to what the show was actually about.
And the actors did a great job of making us feel mixed emotions, be it the negative ones or the positive ones.
And I really don’t like people who, in order to feel that they are right, started applying the logic to real life. Because this is a drama, a fiction, if one likes Mone and Do Hyuk, that’s not how they are in real life
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Don't Easily Trust People
The story is the continuation of the first season where they continue to fight "K" who is disguised as "Lee Swi Hoo" and take LUCA along with TIKITAKA. But in this season, there are a lot of plot twists and new strong enemy that can stood with "K". The battle become intense to show truth about all that have been happened to "Bang Da Mi". Not only that, lot of people are involved with the case and "K" scheme. Overall, it's very enjoyable to watch.*Lot of blood and physical attack so make sure you're not afraid against blood or violance.
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Shit show they try to saved it, but couldn't
Season 2 continued with our cliff hanger from Season 1. The sinners are back, but are on different side Shim Joon Seok aka K side. Min Do Hyeok is the protagonist and is fighting against the evil Matthew Lee aka K. They should have stick to one name, but it wouldn't be a drama if it wasn't so confusing right? The real and the fake the battle. And they included the technology aspect and then the women beater you think we couldn't get anymore confusing we did. Dami story finally somewhat ended. It lost it momentum, but I am glad it is over. Check it out if you are interested in the craziness. Good job to the teamWas this review helpful to you?
