Felipe

One is a series hard to describe, and just as hard to summarize whether I loved it or not. Some things I can easily say that I loved: Lee Jung Ha as Kim Eui Gyeom and Kim Do Wan as Kang Yoongi. That’s a pairing I’d never think could work so well together—but they are amazing.

But other aspects annoyed me a bit, especially since we had Study Group just a few months ago. Maybe it’s because One takes time to reveal a few key elements that are crucial to the story, and since this series was not released all at once, things moved weirdly.

You NEED to understand why Yoongi is hyping Eui Gyeom, you need to understand his reason, you need to understand why he wants to take revenge. At the same time, you need to understand the backstory with the brother to better understand Eui Gyeom. I feel like the series takes too long to drop both reasons.

So we see Yoongi in the hospital, we see Eui Gyeom suffocating himself, we see the visions and the walkman... but overall, it’s a lot of just Eui Gyeom suffering at home and beating people up, and the pieces take too long to fall into place.

Also, no one in their school being part of the main revenge group kinda makes us spend too much time with characters that don’t matter to the plot. But Im Sung Kyun, as bully-turned-voice-of-reason Seungjun, was great.

Terrible to say, but I was happy to see Eui Gyeom punching his dad in the hallucinations during the last fight. Curious to see how long it will take Wavve to make and release Season 2.