Elisheva

The bones of this story could have held more more depth and emotional complexity than the scriptwriter(s) chose to give this version. It's good, it moves, but aside from the violence much of it was too easy a watch for the subject matter.

From a comment on the 1998 original: "New version is nice, but the characters here [1998] are more complex." That fits with my impressions of the remake - that key characters were simplified in the retelling, like the scriptwriter was following a pattern. It's good, but it could have been richer. Instead it's a fairly straightforward young love that cannot be romance set amongst a twisty crime lakorn.

Late twists were great though, with changing alliances (how much of that was copied from the original?), surprises and in the last episode some scenes with more of the emotional depth the premise held. The very end though didn't work for me.

I'm of two minds about posting this because it's probably better if you don't think about it that much. I enjoyed it, I just wanted something which lived up to the premise's promise.