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What did anyone ever see in this?
R is the show that severed my commitment to finish all of a feature before I write a review. I made myself sit through the whole thing, but I can't figure out why. It was /painful/ and I gained nothing from the effort. In fact, I think I emerged from the experience partially split, as if the show is some kind of mind experiment.
Choi Jin Hyuk (Tunnel-8, The Heirs-7.3) portrays our lead, Kang Ki Beom. I like Choi Jin Hyuk, just not in this show. He's an unappreciated cop. There's a home invasion. His wife is killed in a brutal gang slaying and his eyes are gouged out. Hospitalized, he's ready to die, but instead, he's recruited to be in a special-bionic-biometric-super-cool-force team, thing. From there, it's transhuman experiments (he gets bionic eyes), some of the experiments are brutal, there's gangs, cops who are worse than gang members, inner fighting, personal struggles, grief, and wheels within wheels within more wheels. Take those wheels and roll away. Watch anything else. Rugal is ruinous.
Kang Cheol Woo is the director who brought us Mouse, So I Married an Anti-Fan-6.8, and My Secret Romance-7 (which I actually love, despite its shortcomings). Screenwriter Do Hyun has no other credits. Mina (Jung Hye In) is tiny; Teeny-tiny. Yet she takes down 2 or 3 thugs at a time with no modifications, whatsoever. She's in an elite fighting unit comprised of modified humans, but she's an 80lb powerhouse - no enhancements needed🙄. They wasted her looks in R too: They have her in a mullet. She's drop-dead gorgeous in Sisyphus-8.
R has everything it needs to be good - great cast, a winning concept, an adequate budget - it has everything except directing and writing. That's like saying a person has everything s/he needs to live - except air. I consider it unwatchable. That's because I couldn't watch it, even when I was determined to do so. The conflict within me spilled out into ADHD riddled notes that make no sense, though some are funny. Here's a sample of my notes as evidence of the toll this show took on me:
So bad.
Worse.
Cartoonishly simple.
Progressively nosediving.
Now painful.
Cheap deaths that fail to evoke a sense of tragedy, and thus, degrade humanity.
Failure to make an emotional connection with the audience.
Failure to humanize the characters because they created them as hollowed out shells with nothing in the inside.
Where, oh WHERE is the humanity??? Did empty flubobs make Rugal? That could be cool....
Oh! Right. Focus.
Some of the music is fun. Cheesy fun, but not bad.
Failure to create a bond within the team.
It's cold.
It's corny!
Eyes rolling.
It's on, but I'm not watching. I keep forgetting to.... It's pain avoidance! Now I feel anxious about the pain....
Is everybody gonna die? Eh, I don't care what happens to any of them at this point.
His eyes are cool! But why him? Choi Jin-hyuk- I've always liked him. He was good in Tunnel.... Ya know, Tunnel is really GOOD. I wanted to show it to my son when he visited, but it disappeared from Netflix! How dare they?! I can't believe the number of features listed on IMDB with ratings over 8 that aren't available for streaming. Should I get Roku?
Oh, wait, that stupid show's still on. What's happening? They're all shot again? I don't care. I CAN'T care! I refuse to CARE that I don't care.
It hurts us, my precious! Ya know,,,, it's been awhile since I've watched The Lord of the Rings. Maybe I should put that on… Rugal?? It's awful.
blehkkk ehh... is this a love triangle? Seriously?
Grrr..ahh... Hmmm... Should I rewind? Go back and see some of the stuff I missed? Perhaps I should, in good conscience. Great. Now I'm in a conflict of conscience. Rugal evokes deep thoughts: Thoughts of pain and escape.
Did they actually use the same fight scene twice? Huh?
Is all of this merely a prelude to the killer robots? The GREAT cleanse? Tapping might help with the anxiety...there's some great videos about it on youtube….
Oh, just die. You die too. Die in a way that's interesting. Do anything to help me.
Die! DIE! You die too!
Get outta here!
/What!/ They're still 41 minutes to go!? I won't make it. I'm not going to make it.
There's no meaning! There's no point to any of it! How utterly bleak.
Welcome to my nausea. (breathe, try.. 2.breathe)
Self-preservation mode. Shut down.
QUOTE🗣
Koreans can put up with anything but slow internet.
〰🖍 IMHO
🎬2 📝2 🎭6 💓2 🦋0 🌞3 🎨6⚡ 6 🤢8.7 🤔2 💤9 🔚? Couldn't do it. It wouldn't be prudent.
Age - don't even think about it
Re-📺? I'll opt for Barney reruns. 😑
Recommendations:
Watch /anything else/. Signal-8.6. Tunnel-8.1. Sisyphus-8, Stranger Things-8, Frequency, DP-8.4. Inspector Koo-8.4 is fun the whole way through. Peaky blinders. Ozark. Watch a YouTube on how to make homemade body lotion. The Expanse is one of the best sci-fi features I've ever seen. Bosch is a great cop drama. It's like those 70s cop shows. Skip the last season though. Oh My Ghost-10 is a masterpiece though it doesn't get the credit for it because it's a rom-com. Everybody knows Crash Landing On You-9.1 is great fun. Oh My Venus-7.4, and A Witch's Love-7.8 are worth the time. The Romance of Tiger and Rose-9.8 couldn't be any cuter. Love and Redemption is a 10 among the tens. I had to go to pop a Xanax but I couldn't stop watching. You like edgy cop stuff? I rewatched Se7en-9 not long ago. It gets better every single time. It's magnificently horrific. Parasite-9. If you thought you'd like Rugal then you would love Parasite. The Umbrella Academy-9.5 is shocking and brutal in a superbly snarky way, but not gory and the acting, directing, & script are just raining down excellence. It could hardly be better. My Mister-9.5 will wreck you. Black-9 is a complete mind-r@pe and I'll watch it every year - except it doesn'tseem to be available anywhere right now😡. Start anime. Trollhunters is one of the most adorable things I've ever seen. The Dragon Prince-8.7 is great. It's made by the same people who gave us Avatar the Last Airbender-10. Demon Slayer-9.3 for sure. Fill up on Fullmetal Alchemist-10, or Jujutsu Kaisen-9. Anime has some top tier romances. Maid Sama-10 could not be improved upon. Yo! Mare of Easttown-8.5 is an excellent small town crime story. It's official: Kate Winslet is an Artisan Among The Artisans. Squid Game-8.4. Of course, Kingdom-8.3. It's Okay to Not Be Okay-9, Rocket Boys-8.3, Mind Hunter, EX Machina-8.2, Archive 81-7.8 if you can bear it. It would take years to list all the features that are better than Rugal. The short list is the ones that are worse: Greenland-1. I'll watch Reefer Madness 16× in a row before watching this again.
R is the show that severed my commitment to finish all of a feature before I write a review. I made myself sit through the whole thing, but I can't figure out why. It was /painful/ and I gained nothing from the effort. In fact, I think I emerged from the experience partially split, as if the show is some kind of mind experiment.
Choi Jin Hyuk (Tunnel-8, The Heirs-7.3) portrays our lead, Kang Ki Beom. I like Choi Jin Hyuk, just not in this show. He's an unappreciated cop. There's a home invasion. His wife is killed in a brutal gang slaying and his eyes are gouged out. Hospitalized, he's ready to die, but instead, he's recruited to be in a special-bionic-biometric-super-cool-force team, thing. From there, it's transhuman experiments (he gets bionic eyes), some of the experiments are brutal, there's gangs, cops who are worse than gang members, inner fighting, personal struggles, grief, and wheels within wheels within more wheels. Take those wheels and roll away. Watch anything else. Rugal is ruinous.
Kang Cheol Woo is the director who brought us Mouse, So I Married an Anti-Fan-6.8, and My Secret Romance-7 (which I actually love, despite its shortcomings). Screenwriter Do Hyun has no other credits. Mina (Jung Hye In) is tiny; Teeny-tiny. Yet she takes down 2 or 3 thugs at a time with no modifications, whatsoever. She's in an elite fighting unit comprised of modified humans, but she's an 80lb powerhouse - no enhancements needed🙄. They wasted her looks in R too: They have her in a mullet. She's drop-dead gorgeous in Sisyphus-8.
R has everything it needs to be good - great cast, a winning concept, an adequate budget - it has everything except directing and writing. That's like saying a person has everything s/he needs to live - except air. I consider it unwatchable. That's because I couldn't watch it, even when I was determined to do so. The conflict within me spilled out into ADHD riddled notes that make no sense, though some are funny. Here's a sample of my notes as evidence of the toll this show took on me:
So bad.
Worse.
Cartoonishly simple.
Progressively nosediving.
Now painful.
Cheap deaths that fail to evoke a sense of tragedy, and thus, degrade humanity.
Failure to make an emotional connection with the audience.
Failure to humanize the characters because they created them as hollowed out shells with nothing in the inside.
Where, oh WHERE is the humanity??? Did empty flubobs make Rugal? That could be cool....
Oh! Right. Focus.
Some of the music is fun. Cheesy fun, but not bad.
Failure to create a bond within the team.
It's cold.
It's corny!
Eyes rolling.
It's on, but I'm not watching. I keep forgetting to.... It's pain avoidance! Now I feel anxious about the pain....
Is everybody gonna die? Eh, I don't care what happens to any of them at this point.
His eyes are cool! But why him? Choi Jin-hyuk- I've always liked him. He was good in Tunnel.... Ya know, Tunnel is really GOOD. I wanted to show it to my son when he visited, but it disappeared from Netflix! How dare they?! I can't believe the number of features listed on IMDB with ratings over 8 that aren't available for streaming. Should I get Roku?
Oh, wait, that stupid show's still on. What's happening? They're all shot again? I don't care. I CAN'T care! I refuse to CARE that I don't care.
It hurts us, my precious! Ya know,,,, it's been awhile since I've watched The Lord of the Rings. Maybe I should put that on… Rugal?? It's awful.
blehkkk ehh... is this a love triangle? Seriously?
Grrr..ahh... Hmmm... Should I rewind? Go back and see some of the stuff I missed? Perhaps I should, in good conscience. Great. Now I'm in a conflict of conscience. Rugal evokes deep thoughts: Thoughts of pain and escape.
Did they actually use the same fight scene twice? Huh?
Is all of this merely a prelude to the killer robots? The GREAT cleanse? Tapping might help with the anxiety...there's some great videos about it on youtube….
Oh, just die. You die too. Die in a way that's interesting. Do anything to help me.
Die! DIE! You die too!
Get outta here!
/What!/ They're still 41 minutes to go!? I won't make it. I'm not going to make it.
There's no meaning! There's no point to any of it! How utterly bleak.
Welcome to my nausea. (breathe, try.. 2.breathe)
Self-preservation mode. Shut down.
QUOTE🗣
Koreans can put up with anything but slow internet.
〰🖍 IMHO
🎬2 📝2 🎭6 💓2 🦋0 🌞3 🎨6⚡ 6 🤢8.7 🤔2 💤9 🔚? Couldn't do it. It wouldn't be prudent.
Age - don't even think about it
Re-📺? I'll opt for Barney reruns. 😑
Recommendations:
Watch /anything else/. Signal-8.6. Tunnel-8.1. Sisyphus-8, Stranger Things-8, Frequency, DP-8.4. Inspector Koo-8.4 is fun the whole way through. Peaky blinders. Ozark. Watch a YouTube on how to make homemade body lotion. The Expanse is one of the best sci-fi features I've ever seen. Bosch is a great cop drama. It's like those 70s cop shows. Skip the last season though. Oh My Ghost-10 is a masterpiece though it doesn't get the credit for it because it's a rom-com. Everybody knows Crash Landing On You-9.1 is great fun. Oh My Venus-7.4, and A Witch's Love-7.8 are worth the time. The Romance of Tiger and Rose-9.8 couldn't be any cuter. Love and Redemption is a 10 among the tens. I had to go to pop a Xanax but I couldn't stop watching. You like edgy cop stuff? I rewatched Se7en-9 not long ago. It gets better every single time. It's magnificently horrific. Parasite-9. If you thought you'd like Rugal then you would love Parasite. The Umbrella Academy-9.5 is shocking and brutal in a superbly snarky way, but not gory and the acting, directing, & script are just raining down excellence. It could hardly be better. My Mister-9.5 will wreck you. Black-9 is a complete mind-r@pe and I'll watch it every year - except it doesn'tseem to be available anywhere right now😡. Start anime. Trollhunters is one of the most adorable things I've ever seen. The Dragon Prince-8.7 is great. It's made by the same people who gave us Avatar the Last Airbender-10. Demon Slayer-9.3 for sure. Fill up on Fullmetal Alchemist-10, or Jujutsu Kaisen-9. Anime has some top tier romances. Maid Sama-10 could not be improved upon. Yo! Mare of Easttown-8.5 is an excellent small town crime story. It's official: Kate Winslet is an Artisan Among The Artisans. Squid Game-8.4. Of course, Kingdom-8.3. It's Okay to Not Be Okay-9, Rocket Boys-8.3, Mind Hunter, EX Machina-8.2, Archive 81-7.8 if you can bear it. It would take years to list all the features that are better than Rugal. The short list is the ones that are worse: Greenland-1. I'll watch Reefer Madness 16× in a row before watching this again.
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