AddictLampman

I love Joongdunk and normally tbh my love for them as people probably clouds my judgement a little on their shows. I'm sure realistically the Heart Killers wasn't a 10/10 but to me it was. So when a drama trailer dropped with Joongdunk that fit right up my alley I was so excited waiting for it to come out and was even more excited and proud for them when I noticed it was on Netflix but once I started watching, it took me months to finish because I was just having such a hard time getting past the plot holes and writing and just strange whip lash of emotions. I held on hope that maybe the final would be better but after now having watched fully it just made me more mad. Joongdunk played their characters very well in my opinion and the cinematography in some shots was gorgeous but the script and seemingly thrown together plot just did not highlight them how it should've and I wish a better series of theirs ended up on Netflix (opening them to a more widespread audience) instead of a show that makes the company seem incompetent at writing.

Spoilers ahead for anyone still planning to watch because this is no longer a review and rather a long winded rant about the final episode.

When making a mystery thriller like this it is quite important to actually properly plan the plot twists and how everything is going to play out because its supposed to make sense or else the impact from any emotional scene is completely drained away. In this show it seems like they wrote the script in one take and didn't review it a single time. In the last episode when Jay was knocked out by the doctor after Kamin woke him up his immediate reaction was to tell him they're upstairs. How did Jay know that they would be upstairs when its implied he was passed out before they moved the hostages up stairs? Idk psychic I guess but whatever. Later Jade comes out from hiding from the doctor and somehow Jay is now inside and tied up despite the doctor never having enough time to have gone outside. brought Jay inside, tie him up, cover him with a sheet and then gone back to what he was doing because Jade was actively surveying him. Then the doctor proceeds to threaten Jade with a "oh choose him or Kamin" while Kamin was nowhere near him, armed and frankly perfectly safe at the current moment. You cannot have a "choose" moment when you are not actively threatening both parties or Jade could have just chose Jay, moved him away from the threat and followed the doctor up to Kamin to help Kamin so there was no weight to this scene it just seemed stupid. Now lets move back upstairs to Kamin and the hostages and evil girl (I forgot her name mb). I know Champ was a bad person the whole time but is it not irrational that he continued to kill Chareen even when Kamin was there to save them both and had a gun to the evil girls head? He was no longer fighting to survive, he just killed her cuz why not I guess even though killing her in front of a cop made it certain he'd just go to jail after this?? They then walked through the completely engulfed in flames house with no issues or burns despite fire being visibly everywhere while carrying Champ but go off I guess.

NOW this is the worst part about it all to me, somehow even though Kamin just witnessed multiple young adults kill/try to kill each other, already failed to save several others and been in great danger himself, he has no sense of guilt, shame, grief, not an ounce of any mental pain. SAME WITH JADE, his brother was almost killed right in front of him, he failed to save several young adults lives, and he almost died, yet light work no reaction. THEN EVEN WORSE JAY, Jay essentially had the blame of all of his friends deaths placed on him because he was a bystander in their crimes which was said to him by the girl that they harmed the most who he also seemed to be the closest with (and he also almost died and had been mentally tormented for awhile) AND WHEN HE WAKES UP FROM THE HOSPITAL HIS ONLY REACTION IS A SMILE TOWARDS KAMIN AND JADE BEING FLIRTY! You can't have a thriller where nobody feels ANY weight from ANY of the horrible horrible things that happened. It was already bad whiplash when they'd go on a romcom esc date while these kids including his younger brother are being actively hunted by a murderer (with no sort of police protection btw) but the absolute slap on the face that was a 20 minute vacation scene after the most climactic and traumatizing events of the show happened was absolutely CRAZY. The scene in The Heart Killers of Fadel breaking down and crying to Style because he could no longer withhold his pain from the person he loved was so impactful it almost made ME cry but then I watch this and nothing means anything and nobody cares about anything and it was just sooo disappointing knowing what JoongDunk can and has done. The potential was there but the impact was non existent, its hard to even care about their relationship when it often felt just so out of place. Anyways ill leave it at that because frankly I doubt anyone is reading this far in to my rambling.