Duncan

I also feel this way. You know it also like the dream twist where the characters woke up and found out all were in their heads :/ It is really a shame because the characters had gone through a lot and had a good characters's development but they decide to just erase it... I was hoping he was just faking it ( because he was wearing the ring) to not make things too much complicated and to not involve his family during the trial.

" The ending wasn't him processing and healing from his old scars and moving into a new, happier chapter of his life, it was him having the things that had shaped him up to that point completely erased. "

Exactly :/

I must agree for the binge watching comment, I regret it but I could not stop myself from seeing the next episode... I must also agree the fact they were speaking about their problems was really refreshing to see ! I really thought when Cha Ji Won would know her husband's identity they would just show us the " cat and mouse " game until the end but it was not the case !

" there was no "No I don't want to listen to you anymore" and running of leaving the misunderstanding being resolved in the next 10 eps " so true I am really grateful it was the case + how Hyun So was so sweet toward her ( okay at firt it was just fake) and did not grab her by her wrist or whatever to stop her if she was suddently upset.

Frankly the drama was good until the 3/4 where I feel like they made the characters cried too much but it is a melodrama sooooooo I guess it is how it should be ? I felt like the drama lost his balance at some points and it was really messy but overall it was really good ! Be aware if you are not fond of heavy topics such as human trafic. It is really the kind of drama I find interesting but at the same time too dark to be seen, like it really mark your memory and I do not know if it is a good thing or a bad thing...

It is because Hyun Soo saw him as a person who is possessed so they make the white = black. It is because the villagers said his father and him were possessed by demons

Her husband probably kept her in captivity in the cage, that is where Do Hyun received her voice recording and then she was killed by her husband. I think the kid actually saw his mom being killed and that is how he had antisocial disorders and memories issues ( when he was wandering in the wood and his father found him). His father was truly a monster but the drama really keeps give me hope he was perhaps not a serial killer with how they displayed the flashbacks.

I wonder if the father was already a serial killer and his wife found out or if he started killing after her death ? I really does not believe the possibility she abandonned her 2 kids. I was also wondering if the older sister had also antisocial disorders, I even thought she was hiding it at first and I was prepared for a twist that she was the accomplice... Seem the father only tried to make his son like him...

The only thing who was not really explained was for Do Hyun So's mom but I guess it is a choice because it is more horrible to think about what happened to her than to actually see it...

I recommend you to watch "Flower of Evil" if you did not watch it yet. I rarely love TVN's drama but this one really feel like an OCN one and he is really really great. It pretty well resume " Don't judge by the cover " and all the characters, actors, musics, stories are great. You can definitively see the darkest parts of humans but also the brightest ones. I will stop here or else I will spoil you but the twists are great !

Yes only Kim Wook and Pan Seok, I will try to be hit by a car to see it !

I won't list everything and it is on my own interpretation (and I warn you I will spoil some major twists):

1 - The families's potray appear a lot in this drama ( the rich family's potray wih their real son and with Do Hyun So + the one with Do Hyun So's wife and daughter). And somehow I can not stop thinking how smart it was. What I think about it :

At first when I saw the rich family's portray with their real son I was thinking " They were so happy and now they are miserable, I really want the son to wake up ! " but after the major twist about him being the serial killer it took another sense to me : Like the family portray of Hyun So's family it was a fake environment created by the son who was a psychopath and his family is trapped in this illusion of hapiness that is why they were all smilling. The funny thing is, when they made the family portray with Do Hyun So, they had grumpy faces but between them they showed their true colors and somehow they were " genuine " between them.

2 - The irony is just so great. Do Hyun So was not the accomplice at all but ends up taking the accomplice's identity without knowing it. Frankly I did not even put the rich's family son in the list of suspect until the moment he woke up and started to act oddly.

3. The main character is not a psychopath. Like Hyun So's sister said, finally only Hyun So was the only "human" back then and that is true. He just started to believe he was like his father because he had a traumatic past and everyone were harassing him/brutal with him in the past ( except his sister) so he started to believe he was the bad one. But it was pretty obvious from the start he was not a killer (I already knew when he set free the journalist insteed of killing him) and he had a lot of opportunities to kill people but always don't. That kind of remind me Psychopath diary but without the comedy aspect.
I feel like Hyun So had in fact emotions all along but just could not explained them/recognized them because nobody really taught him how to express them excepting his sister, his wife and his daughter. And because he was the scapegoat at that time it was even more hard for him to understand them and he ends up to believe he was emotionless and started to see illusions.

4 The way they made the real Baek Hee Sung "sick" was also a great idea because I felt pity for him at first and then when I started to notice how he was creepy I was hoping he would stay forever in his weelchair. It was so stressful to see him get better, talking with more ease, begining to move his legs and all :/ And in my opinion it was really great to build up the tension. When he ran after the maid he seemed it was even more creepy because he way of speaking was still slow and he could not run yet but he was walked VERY FAST and that gave him really a robot/doll aspect.

The only thing I did not like so far is how the journalist use gender discrimination toward Hyun So. Like he is still treating him like a monster now that he knows it was Hyun So's sister who killed the foreman ? Why ? When it is a girl it is nothing to kill someone but when it is a guy it is wrong ? He still did not apologize properly toward Hyun So about how he was maltraiting him in the past + he also rejected the sister harsly and now he is so obsess with her it made me sick sometimes because I thought they were more urgent matters. I felt like his intentions were always selfish from the start and it is a shame because I was expecting something better from him. I am still wondering if I hate his character because he is so a jerk sometimes or if I like him because sometimes he can be really funny...

I am so glad I stopped myself to watch it when it started, I already bing watched more than half of the episodes this is so so good ! I am the kind of viewer who love to analyse every details and this drama has a lot of details !! (spoiler below)

Yes, I wonder if Wook will find Thomas's body even so because this is Kdrama but I also find that there are very low chances his body will be found...

I really love most of OCN's dramas because they succeed to portray their characters with all the bright side and dark side an human can have. Of course it is "exaggerated" because it is a drama but they really find the good balance

And the story are often with detectives, surnaturals things, comedy and serious moments : and I like all of that

I AGREE

It is really more clear to me thanks to you ! I still think it is a shame is was just in their head : of course I do not want an end with Shima's death and Ibuki killing someone and be killed but I mean I would have appreciated a scene where Shima would have protect Ibuki from a bullet but not actually dying from it... I was really devasted when I saw this end at first because I really thought it was going to end like that and after that I did not understand the trigger. So thanks now I understand it much better.

" buki and Shima didn't attack Kusumi and his minion because their guns were probably taken away. One can't defeat two armed people while weaponless. "

I am still not alright with this moment though :/ It felt really rushed all of sudden they escaped and cut next scene

Yes please ! I thought it was also Ibuki nightmare ? I think they had the same somehow and I would have preferred if it was only Ibuki's nightmares that seemed more suitable with his personality to make a bad dream where he sees Shima dying :/ The end was really confusing

Thanks a lot, I will read your spoiler comment right now !

I feel the same ! Just posted this some minutes ago when someone said the drama was lacking something at the end :

" To me it was the case of Oh Ji Hyuk's father that bothered me, I was waiting something more...Finally Oh Jii Hyuk still did not remembered the face he saw and the guy did not really took responsability for it, he just said "I made a mistake "and that is all :/ ? Wtf "

Before the last episodes, I thought his father case would be the last arc and would connect the last dots but finally it was just a side story HOW ? The way they showed Ji Hyuk panick attacks and nightmares I really thought everthing was going to be linked at some point. It is perhaps because I saw a lot of kdramas but I was awaiting a moments where Do Chang and Seo Kyung were going to see Hi Jyuk during one of his panick attack and that they would help him to find the culprits ?

Kdramas are great but I alway have this feeling they often do not know how to ends the exciting things they are throwing at us. I have a lot of examples but I do not want to spoil a lot of drama; I will just take one example about the kdrama Confession for exemple (Warning spoilers): in confession, the main character at some point remembers memories who aren't his memories (because he got a new heart and he was seeing the memories of the person who was possessing that heart) and I found that really exciting because it was linked to the main case and I thought he was going to use this to find the fatal proof but somehow at the end it was not really used/or talking about so I was quite dissapointed...

I have a lot of others examples and I am rarely satisfied with an end : I saw a lot of dramas great 15/16 episodes and then the last episode give something totally different from the previous episodes :/

To me it was the case of Oh Ji Hyuk's father that bothered me, I was waiting something more...Finally Oh Jii Hyuk still did not remembered the face he saw and the guy did not really took responsability for it, he just said "I made a mistake "and that is all :/ ? Wtf

However this drama is really a feel-good drama in my opinion and I was quite surprise to see how deep the characters were I was not expecting it. Even the younger cop was so wise !

Can we watch it somewhere on internet ? The end was really strange in my opinion...

Yes I did not undestood the fake ending too... I think it would have been more meaningful if Shima actually protected Ibuki and took a bullet for him : this time he would have been here on time to save his partner and it would showed to Ibuki that Shima actually considers him like an important person. At least even if the end was stupid I was for the cliché ending but it did not really happen like I thought.

If I understood corretly the two of them had that nightmares where Shima died ? Would have make more sense it was only Ibuki who had that nightmare.

And throughout the drama they were talking about the " triggers " and how even a good person can ends up to do a bad thing and deviate from their path; I really like this concept because I believe in something similar where every actions are connected and some actions can trigger some good or bad things so I was excited to see what was the " trigger " when they " go back in time " in the last episode but we just end up on a moment were they are just tied up on the boat ? I was a bit dissapointed; I thought it was going to go back where Ibuki was spying on Shima and you know when he heard Shima said bad things about him and did not listen whad he said after (of course when Shima reverse his words and talked good about him lol) except this time Ibuki would have listened the full consersation and decided to work with Shima to confrond the drug dealer but it did not happened :/

+The fact they jump in the water wtf they could have totally handled two guys and it was dumb because in the water you put yourself in a defenseless position (I know it is a drama and I should not look into logical things but this moment really pissed me off ) + the numerous cuts between the scenes at the end because it was at first 14 épisodes but cut it at 11 ? :/

I thought the same and remembered it was a drama xD And you know it is the kind of relationship where they hated each other from day one but will soft themselves and regrets their words when they will know the truth. Well Wook knows her identity but his mom does not and she was still cold toward him until she gets some hints in episode 6 when she learnt his name and how they love the same type of dishes... The way she looked at him changed and when she said "Ramen are the best" seemed like "an attempt to break the ice" but did not work lol

I have the gut she is just his adoptive mother and the rich woman who was killed at the same time as Hyun Mi and the detective from the ghost village is his real birth mother. However still awaiting their mother-son relationship and sad his real mother's body was found so he can not even meet her at least as a ghost...