✋️The Hoods in the Hood °7.4° °VG°
BE flies in the face of the concept that time heals all wounds. Sometimes time merely allows wounds to fester into a gangrened mess. A 2021 release that is rated 91 on AWiki, it is1 season consisting of 16 60-minute episodes.
Back in time we see Lee Dong “Shik”, who is the older twin by a minute, but only half as accomplished as his younger sister. The priggish church lady readily points that out. Two decades forward he's a cop. Known for his temper, as we first see him 20 years hence, he's busting up an illegal gambling ring - of old ladies at the beauty shop! Shin Ha Kyun (Evilive) is perfect as Shik. He's crazy, alright… but does that make him guilty? His sister died 20 years ago. She wasn't the only one. Now, people are dying again.
It's good to see Yeo Jin Goo in a highly rated production. He's marvelous in Hotel del Luna-8.4, but My Absolute Boyfriend-6.5 has some problems, as does Link: Eat, Love, Kill-6.7. Both of them are (arguably) good enough for a one-time watch. He's the primary reason why. I haven't gotten to the popular Circle nor The Crowned Clown yet. Here, he's born-to-privilege Han “Joo” Won, son of the next police commissioner. His dad's making him do the rounds of small town police stations to get the feel of the force. That lands him next to Shik. The chief notices their distaste for eachother and pairs them up. Mr. Yeo always plays someone slightly fussy or high maintenance. In BE he's a germaphobe.
Shik and Joo are a good iteration of The Odd Couple. Manyang is a small town, and the small town feel weighs heavily on the production. Shik is from Manyang, but Joo is from Seoul. Shik is from a humble family while Joo's family is the furthest thing from that. Shik's no germaphobe! We'll see him touch things that'll make the average person squeamish. Joo is a rule follower. That ain't Skik! As the body count mounts, almost everyone is suspect. Shik, having suffered his own share of loss and trauma, might just be the most suspicious.
The acting really is superb. It seems like many of the side characters get their Oscar worthy moment. Choi Dae Hoon (Flower of Evil-8.9, Extraordinary Attorney Woo) plays Park Jung Je. Kim Shin Rok plays violent crimes officer Oh Ji Hwa. Her resume isn't long, but wow. She's excellent. She has a small but pivotal part in The Cursed-8.3, and she slays it. Choi Sung Eun (The Sound of Magic) is Yoo Jae Yi. Choi Jin Ho (The Heirs-7.3, Oh My Venus-7.4) plays Han Ki Hwan, Joo's father and Deputy chief of the National Police Agency. Kil Hae Yeon is Do Hae Won, Congresswoman of Munju City. She gets alot of work. She portrays the mom in both Something in the Rain-8.6 & One Spring Night-7.8, shows that echo eachother like two volumes of the same book. . Nam Yoon-Soo plays the youngest cop we see. He was fabulous in The King's Affection-8.3. Yoo Jae Yi is played by Choi Sung Eun from The Sound of Magic. She is amazing, particularly in ep7. Jang Sung-Bum (Call It Love-8.4, Stranger) plays Shik's former partner. He gets a brief but excellently acted out death scene in flashback. He can sing beautifully, btw. He shines in Call It Love-8.4.
Let's not overlook Lee Gyu-Hoe as Kang Jin-Mook, the painfully shy and stuttering father of one of the victims. After I looked up his bio I noticed that I've already seen him in Crash Landing on You-9.1, Link: Eat, Love Kill-6.7, Daily Dose of Sunshine-7, and DP-8.4. I didn't recognize him at all! It's a testimony to his superb skills, as he is most definitely superb in BE. Screenwriter Kim Soo Jin gave us Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Jook & the excellent comedy, My Only Love Song-8.7, and Shim Na Yeon also directed The Good Bad Mother.
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The most painful death is Kang Min-Jung's. Her demise seems to break Shik's heart. They have various suspects locked up that are, at the time, believed to be the last person to see Min-Jung alive (she's marvelously played by Kang Min-Ah from True Beauty). They managed to surprise me when the culprit is finallyrevealed.
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Do most of Shik's moves make sense? I'm not sure… I can't adjust to the 💅 finger thing. They do explain it, but I can't fully board that car and ride along. Do they reach alittle far? Go to the border of nonsense? Sure, a couple times they get dangerously close and it isn't always a smooth ride. But they get away with it. Overall, BE is very good. Not everything that happens helps the plot along, and it was slightly dragged out at the end, but it is still a quality crime caper that is worth watching. Ep7 is magnificent.
Overall, the cadence and filming are good. The palette is dark and most scenes have a grimy feel. That takes skill. In one scene, they are searching in a cornfield at night. Aerial shots show black trails between the stalks where other wanderers have trod. I don't know Korean or Mandarin, but I have to wonder if, from an aerial view, the trails make any kind of character? It looks possible.
Manyang's past and present will collide before the end. Long standing corruption is at the seat of many of the issues, but not all of them. Not only are there crimes to solve, but the biggest mystery is if Skik & Joo will be able to work together without killing eachother before the end. One can't figure that out early on. It remains a question to be answered until nearly the last frame.
QUOTE📢
Can't you tell that nut-job is 100 times more rational than you?
〰🖍 IMHO
📣7.4 📝7.6 🎭8.3 🎨7.7 🔚7 ▪ 🌞4.5 ⚡5.5 😅2 😭7.7 😱5.4 😯3.8 🤢5 🤔4 💤2
🎵/🔊7.5 Shazams: The Road, by sunwoojunga & Empty by car, the garden
Age 16+ Murder, violence, gore. Rated TV-MA: Mature Audience Only.
Re-📺? Doubtful
In order of ~lite&trite~ to ~heavy&serious~ you may also like:
Modern Day -
Love to Hate You 8.9,
Oh My Ghost 10,
It's Okay Not To Be Okay 9,
My Mister 9.5,
The King's Affection 8.3,
Mr. Sunshine 9
Action/Crime/Sci-fi -
K2 8,
Private Lives 8.1,
Inspector Koo 8.4
When the Camellia Blooms-8,
Law School 8
Sisyphus 8,
Tunnel 8.5,
Signal 8.6,
D.P. 8.4,
The Cursed 8.3,
Flower of Evil 8.9,
The Man from Nowhere 8.9,
Parasite-9
Black 9,
Squid Game 8.4,
Kingdom 8.3,
Sweet Home 8.4
Back in time we see Lee Dong “Shik”, who is the older twin by a minute, but only half as accomplished as his younger sister. The priggish church lady readily points that out. Two decades forward he's a cop. Known for his temper, as we first see him 20 years hence, he's busting up an illegal gambling ring - of old ladies at the beauty shop! Shin Ha Kyun (Evilive) is perfect as Shik. He's crazy, alright… but does that make him guilty? His sister died 20 years ago. She wasn't the only one. Now, people are dying again.
It's good to see Yeo Jin Goo in a highly rated production. He's marvelous in Hotel del Luna-8.4, but My Absolute Boyfriend-6.5 has some problems, as does Link: Eat, Love, Kill-6.7. Both of them are (arguably) good enough for a one-time watch. He's the primary reason why. I haven't gotten to the popular Circle nor The Crowned Clown yet. Here, he's born-to-privilege Han “Joo” Won, son of the next police commissioner. His dad's making him do the rounds of small town police stations to get the feel of the force. That lands him next to Shik. The chief notices their distaste for eachother and pairs them up. Mr. Yeo always plays someone slightly fussy or high maintenance. In BE he's a germaphobe.
Shik and Joo are a good iteration of The Odd Couple. Manyang is a small town, and the small town feel weighs heavily on the production. Shik is from Manyang, but Joo is from Seoul. Shik is from a humble family while Joo's family is the furthest thing from that. Shik's no germaphobe! We'll see him touch things that'll make the average person squeamish. Joo is a rule follower. That ain't Skik! As the body count mounts, almost everyone is suspect. Shik, having suffered his own share of loss and trauma, might just be the most suspicious.
The acting really is superb. It seems like many of the side characters get their Oscar worthy moment. Choi Dae Hoon (Flower of Evil-8.9, Extraordinary Attorney Woo) plays Park Jung Je. Kim Shin Rok plays violent crimes officer Oh Ji Hwa. Her resume isn't long, but wow. She's excellent. She has a small but pivotal part in The Cursed-8.3, and she slays it. Choi Sung Eun (The Sound of Magic) is Yoo Jae Yi. Choi Jin Ho (The Heirs-7.3, Oh My Venus-7.4) plays Han Ki Hwan, Joo's father and Deputy chief of the National Police Agency. Kil Hae Yeon is Do Hae Won, Congresswoman of Munju City. She gets alot of work. She portrays the mom in both Something in the Rain-8.6 & One Spring Night-7.8, shows that echo eachother like two volumes of the same book. . Nam Yoon-Soo plays the youngest cop we see. He was fabulous in The King's Affection-8.3. Yoo Jae Yi is played by Choi Sung Eun from The Sound of Magic. She is amazing, particularly in ep7. Jang Sung-Bum (Call It Love-8.4, Stranger) plays Shik's former partner. He gets a brief but excellently acted out death scene in flashback. He can sing beautifully, btw. He shines in Call It Love-8.4.
Let's not overlook Lee Gyu-Hoe as Kang Jin-Mook, the painfully shy and stuttering father of one of the victims. After I looked up his bio I noticed that I've already seen him in Crash Landing on You-9.1, Link: Eat, Love Kill-6.7, Daily Dose of Sunshine-7, and DP-8.4. I didn't recognize him at all! It's a testimony to his superb skills, as he is most definitely superb in BE. Screenwriter Kim Soo Jin gave us Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Jook & the excellent comedy, My Only Love Song-8.7, and Shim Na Yeon also directed The Good Bad Mother.
⛔Mini spoiler⛔
⛔
The most painful death is Kang Min-Jung's. Her demise seems to break Shik's heart. They have various suspects locked up that are, at the time, believed to be the last person to see Min-Jung alive (she's marvelously played by Kang Min-Ah from True Beauty). They managed to surprise me when the culprit is finallyrevealed.
⛔
⛔
Do most of Shik's moves make sense? I'm not sure… I can't adjust to the 💅 finger thing. They do explain it, but I can't fully board that car and ride along. Do they reach alittle far? Go to the border of nonsense? Sure, a couple times they get dangerously close and it isn't always a smooth ride. But they get away with it. Overall, BE is very good. Not everything that happens helps the plot along, and it was slightly dragged out at the end, but it is still a quality crime caper that is worth watching. Ep7 is magnificent.
Overall, the cadence and filming are good. The palette is dark and most scenes have a grimy feel. That takes skill. In one scene, they are searching in a cornfield at night. Aerial shots show black trails between the stalks where other wanderers have trod. I don't know Korean or Mandarin, but I have to wonder if, from an aerial view, the trails make any kind of character? It looks possible.
Manyang's past and present will collide before the end. Long standing corruption is at the seat of many of the issues, but not all of them. Not only are there crimes to solve, but the biggest mystery is if Skik & Joo will be able to work together without killing eachother before the end. One can't figure that out early on. It remains a question to be answered until nearly the last frame.
QUOTE📢
Can't you tell that nut-job is 100 times more rational than you?
〰🖍 IMHO
📣7.4 📝7.6 🎭8.3 🎨7.7 🔚7 ▪ 🌞4.5 ⚡5.5 😅2 😭7.7 😱5.4 😯3.8 🤢5 🤔4 💤2
🎵/🔊7.5 Shazams: The Road, by sunwoojunga & Empty by car, the garden
Age 16+ Murder, violence, gore. Rated TV-MA: Mature Audience Only.
Re-📺? Doubtful
In order of ~lite&trite~ to ~heavy&serious~ you may also like:
Modern Day -
Love to Hate You 8.9,
Oh My Ghost 10,
It's Okay Not To Be Okay 9,
My Mister 9.5,
The King's Affection 8.3,
Mr. Sunshine 9
Action/Crime/Sci-fi -
K2 8,
Private Lives 8.1,
Inspector Koo 8.4
When the Camellia Blooms-8,
Law School 8
Sisyphus 8,
Tunnel 8.5,
Signal 8.6,
D.P. 8.4,
The Cursed 8.3,
Flower of Evil 8.9,
The Man from Nowhere 8.9,
Parasite-9
Black 9,
Squid Game 8.4,
Kingdom 8.3,
Sweet Home 8.4
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