Shapur II

It did take me some time before writing this review, hope it has any value to someone. :)

I felt bad for his wife, there was nothing wrong with her. And she was the only real friend the female lead had, even behind her back the wife always defended her.

20 episodes + 2 special spin-off episodes that you should watch after episode 15. "Mouse: the last" also contains an alternative ending, the rest of that episode are interviews. Its not necessary to watch "Mouse: restart". I'm not sure what you mean with SHIB. :/

Yes I surely recommend it. :)
Just keep in mind that there is something in it that is still considered science fiction, this didn't matter to me, but I saw a lot of people complain about it at first, but it's less problematic than it looks at first and it actually makes the story quite unique. :)

Its just safer to do :)

Please place this under spoilers for the people that haven't yet completed the series, thank you.

No worries about it, its very minor. And the little romance thats in it is quite well done, so not cringey at all.

Same for me, just love this drama too much :)

Completely agree, the story is not so much about who exactly is the serial killer.

I think it also has a lot to do with the violence and gore, 19+ rating of some episodes. I saw a lot of Lee Seung Gi fans on social media who only started to watch for him and were kind of put off by the first episode with the headhunter. I can't say for the Korean audience, but in case of the foreign audience you have to keep in mind that the majority are still women who are put off by the violence and sexual stuff in American tv shows, so they are more attracted to the romantic drama's and more cliche ones.

Its largely also Daniel Lee's fault, his research can be very useful, but things went wrong with the idea they had that someone with the predator gene necessarily turns into a serial killer and that the only way to prevent that is murdering them. As we have seen with Bareum this isn't the case, if he wasn't triggered by OZ he likely wouldn't have started killing people. Instead they should have worked to prevent that from happening.

It's not that much about who is exactly the serial killer, the earlier episodes do give you that idea a bit, but it isn't the main focus of the drama.

Don't worry it will all be explained, but yeah you have to wait a bit for the answers.

You're welcome :), and yeah thats my guess also, they've the filmed footage of the operation that Han Seo joon did on Bareum and probably also notes of him, so yeah thats a likely assumption. For a season 2 I'm not sure, but they had some more things in the alternative ending pointing towards this, so maybe. (Not sure if you've already seen it, so won't spoil it here :))

The actor seems to be Kim Yo-han, from the kpop group WEi. When people mentioned Yohan I was first confused with Yohan from Mouse itself, but yeah its the singer Yohan. :)

The youtube channel 뇌피소설가 입소문tv talked about an interesting analyse that some people made in the comments, it's in his most recent video (It's with English subtitles). So it seems possible that the date from Bareum's death (11/23) and his prisoner number (1124) refer to a Bible verse from the gospel of John, which says at "11:23" : "Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.” and at "11:24" : "Martha answered, “I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.” Which should be refering to the resurrection of Jesus. So yeah if this is the real intention of the writer then this is another clue.

Viki, but you need a subscription for it. You can find it largely also on instagram and probably also twitter, but they don't have English subtitles.

I watched it on instagram, "official.kuniverse" page is posting clips of it with a description in Indonesian.

The daughter of Shin Sang seems to be a psychopath, so possibly she could be the new predator, but depending on what age they would go for this means Moochi and Choi Hongju will be quite old, and Bong-Yi in her mid or late 30s. Its of course possible they just showed this to explain why Shin Sang father ordered to assassinate Choi Young-Shin, but still that teddy bear... . And then there is also the mouse that was still alive... .

I'm really questioning now if they're really going for a season 2, the alternative ending contains even more things that point to this. (second comment contains spoilers for the alternative ending, so don't read if you haven't watched it)