I mainly watch kdramas, I've checked my list and looks like it was a rather weak year compared to 2022, with best dramas coming in last few months. Here's hoping 2024 will be a blast!
Agree with everything, but also wanted to add that the message of the show also ignores that there are a lot of…
☝️This. They keep on blaming those who got broken trying to fit into the broken system, instead of fixing it. Not everyone is capable of meeting ridiculous standards that are being promoted as the only way of proper living. No wonder people who are left overboard feel useless to society, to themselves and to their relatives and fall into a vicious cycle of self loathing and into a silent killer that is depression. And that's not considering having other mental health issues. Shaming them for not conforming to religious and societal dogmas, and calling them selfish for not seeing other way out, instead of trying to understand and help them is so hypocritical it really pisses me off.
This was the question I wanted to ask. I've seen comments that the setting may be 80s-modern. Actually, the 80s…
Yea, colored TV en masse appeared in SK in 1980. Some people say they saw a modern notebook for a split second. I dunno about that, but windows were modern, plastic ones.
It's the best show i've watched with an amazing message actually especially in korea where the suicidal rate is…
"death isn't the end to their problems"...only if you believe in hell. Also, this drama actually does a very poor job at exploring the state of mental health of suicidal people and snapping out of it just by watching a drama is not going to help. It's just a guilt shaming cheap shot sponsored by SK government which doesn't have any real solutions to this country wide problem.
He did it for the thrill. Ji-Su's death is undone by the end anyways when hes given a second chance.
Yea, the cast was stellar. Even usually overacting actors, like the one who's playing evil chaebol here, did good. I gave this drama +2 points just for the cast and production quality.
Yea, after episode 5 it went downhill rapidly. That episode 6 was like those countless crime dramas about corruption…
Yea, in this drama they're basically shaming a person who broke trying to simply fit into the broken system. No understanding, compassion or real solutions. It's like that cartoon meme: Nope, stop talking, go to hell. A very narrow and shallow view on the problem. And to those people who say suicidal people should watch this drama to snap out of it - it doesn't work like that, go read at least something about the subject.
This is an absolutely masterful way of showing what the Japanese did to the Koreans. The millions they murdered,…
Just to be historically accurate, this drama used Unit 731 as inspiration and they mostly operated in China. But absolutely monstrous crimes (sans the Monster) they've committed are very much true, as well as Japan lying and trying to erase them from history books until very recently. But Korea suffered greatly from Japanese occupation as well so they've every right to make dramas such as this, if somebody doesn't like it it's their problem. And the Monster here I think is like a metaphorical amalgamation of all those terrible human experiments and anguish made flesh.
He did it for the thrill. Ji-Su's death is undone by the end anyways when hes given a second chance.
Is it though? Everything was undone with his second chance and all the villains will still be walking scott free. Also, Death implied that that was just his gf's time to die. I don't think him preventing her from walking along that wall at that date in his second life will save her, if it's her time Death will still find a way to kill her. I wish this had a season 2 with ML trying to take down all those bad guys down for good and lead a more successful life, but I'm not sure whether he'd want to involve himself with them again. Anyway, that's neither here nor there...
The way he dealt with the killer was too over the top for me, kinda ridiculous if you think about it, but still…
Yea, after episode 5 it went downhill rapidly. That episode 6 was like those countless crime dramas about corruption and chaebols with over the top acting and resolutions. Very meh. The last two episodes were drilling on the same message but it was all wrong. The only insightful part was about that suicidal salary man - it showed ML the dream he so desperately wanted to have, the one the government and society kept on brainwashing him with. But they never delved anywhere further with that. Instead of guilt shaming ML with his mother they should have explored what ML really wanted in life, how can he be true to himself. Is being a cog in an uncaring corporate machine what people really should strive for in life? Just such a waste of potential here. But as it is, this drama resolves none of the problems SK's society has, it just tries to guilt shame through religion and societal dogmas. As for the characters in this drama the ending invalidated everything ML did in other people’s bodies and all those who were supposed to die will die and all the bad guys will still be walking scott free.
They didn't explain the baby doll and the whole part 2 is pointless since he went back in time (all of his accomplishment…
Yea, what was up with that baby doll? It looked like a dropped plot point. It also happened at the same time when Death implied ML caused someone else's death with his suicide and those two bodies were shown. It even made me think he fell on people below or something.
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Though lately its performance has been spotty - too many survivors.
A very narrow and shallow view on the problem. And to those people who say suicidal people should watch this drama to snap out of it - it doesn't work like that, go read at least something about the subject.
But Korea suffered greatly from Japanese occupation as well so they've every right to make dramas such as this, if somebody doesn't like it it's their problem. And the Monster here I think is like a metaphorical amalgamation of all those terrible human experiments and anguish made flesh.
I wish this had a season 2 with ML trying to take down all those bad guys down for good and lead a more successful life, but I'm not sure whether he'd want to involve himself with them again. Anyway, that's neither here nor there...
The last two episodes were drilling on the same message but it was all wrong. The only insightful part was about that suicidal salary man - it showed ML the dream he so desperately wanted to have, the one the government and society kept on brainwashing him with. But they never delved anywhere further with that. Instead of guilt shaming ML with his mother they should have explored what ML really wanted in life, how can he be true to himself. Is being a cog in an uncaring corporate machine what people really should strive for in life? Just such a waste of potential here.
But as it is, this drama resolves none of the problems SK's society has, it just tries to guilt shame through religion and societal dogmas.
As for the characters in this drama the ending invalidated everything ML did in other people’s bodies and all those who were supposed to die will die and all the bad guys will still be walking scott free.