Another Underwhelming Zombie Drama
Like many people, I watched this drama for Jisoo as her return kdramas. Whilst I didn't have many high expectations for the drama, it didn't exactly blow me away either.
The story did seem like a new and interesting take to the zombie plots which are often overused in kdramas; the comedy elements mixed with the quirky "escape" routes from zombies were interesting. But the comedy wasn't anything fresh and was more just the childish "poo and pee" jokes that didn't exactly fit with the *extremely* gory scenes later on. The characters reactions to the zombies, whilst being quite realistic, made it seem as though they were in a world that had never seen/heard of a zombie movie before and it was frustrating to see the characters making such illogical decisions (particularly at the rather long and boring military base scenes).
Whilst the flashback scenes were cute, I would have loved to see more chemistry and screentime between the two leads who spent literally 99% of the drama apart.
That being said, the side characters where likable enough and, whilst I think their previous works are much better, the leads were great too. The open-ended finale was a little disappointing as it didn't feel like the powerful ending we'd been expecting for the last 7 episodes but the drama was certainly enjoyable to casually tune into every friday. We love to see a strong female lead 💪
The story did seem like a new and interesting take to the zombie plots which are often overused in kdramas; the comedy elements mixed with the quirky "escape" routes from zombies were interesting. But the comedy wasn't anything fresh and was more just the childish "poo and pee" jokes that didn't exactly fit with the *extremely* gory scenes later on. The characters reactions to the zombies, whilst being quite realistic, made it seem as though they were in a world that had never seen/heard of a zombie movie before and it was frustrating to see the characters making such illogical decisions (particularly at the rather long and boring military base scenes).
Whilst the flashback scenes were cute, I would have loved to see more chemistry and screentime between the two leads who spent literally 99% of the drama apart.
That being said, the side characters where likable enough and, whilst I think their previous works are much better, the leads were great too. The open-ended finale was a little disappointing as it didn't feel like the powerful ending we'd been expecting for the last 7 episodes but the drama was certainly enjoyable to casually tune into every friday. We love to see a strong female lead 💪
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