DarkEyes

Look at the comments and reviews. This show has inspired everyone to try to write like pompous film critics, like when viewers of cooking shows started to drop words like 'umami'. That tells you its different to most of what we see from Korea, there's a serious artistic and narrative attempt which you may or may not like but it's certainly got you thinking. Others wish there was more nudity and sex. More? These people are literally represented in the show (by the reporter in the theatre).

Personally, I enjoyed it. I have never seen this calbre or tone of work from Korea. Its visually beautiful (that's sometimes a criticism I'll get to in a minute) but what stood out is the writing, acting and unusually, the sound design. People rarely rate sound design but here its so good it stands out.

I'm not going to pick out an actors performance. They were all exceptional. Even the vile antagonist manages to be truly loathsome but understandable at the same time. The young actress has impressive depth, and Honey Lee, well I'll make an exception and call out Honey Lee because she owns the screen here. It's a tour de force and she's becoming one of my favourite actors. The criticism is the visual texture. Graded to look like its Golden Hour all the time, over saturation and low contrast, the PD or DoP seemed to be unsure if they were going for something surreal and artistic or gritty and historic. They tried to blend Wes Anderson with Tarantino and I'm not sure that's the right direction to have taken.

I recommend the show. Its only 6 episodes and its worth your time.