Anybody else having a great time feeling vicarious satisfaction of sweet revenge through FL? 😈 They're doing it great here, PMY finally landed a good role after a while, even though it's yet another office drama. But this time no weird, exaggerated plots, silly gimmicks or childish behavior (except for the evil bish, but that's ok, another reason to hate her).
I'm not feeling ML though, besides the goofy looks and very weird connection to FL (I know the spoilers from the manga), he's just kinda meh for now? I really hope they're gonna do more with him in the drama.
Decided to check it out, but man, this is just cheap s*it 🤣Cheese and overacting everywhere. And I cannot unsee same decorations from Alchemy of Souls.
White Truck Of Doom to the rescue, what else?Though lately its performance has been spotty - too many survivors.
It's a plot device often used in kdramas, manga and anime. If you need a character dead or hospitalized but don't have any good ideas - just send a truck to run over that character or crash into that character's car. It's usually fatal. The trucks used most of the time are white for some reason. So these trucks became their own meme character - Truck of Doom/The White Truck of Doom.
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...
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They're doing it great here, PMY finally landed a good role after a while, even though it's yet another office drama. But this time no weird, exaggerated plots, silly gimmicks or childish behavior (except for the evil bish, but that's ok, another reason to hate her).
I'm not feeling ML though, besides the goofy looks and very weird connection to FL (I know the spoilers from the manga), he's just kinda meh for now? I really hope they're gonna do more with him in the drama.
And I cannot unsee same decorations from Alchemy of Souls.
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...