To people who find the lack of explanation disappointing, it's totally understandable. We have been taught and…
I agree. I think the quick dismissal people have because there's no resolution is ironically being highlighted in the show: humanity's desperate need to have answers and certainty.
This is exactly why I'm hoping for an alternative, tragic ending rather than a cookie-cutter happy ending where things are neatly wrapped up. I'm a firm believer that not every story has a happy ending and I enjoy the creative liberties of artists who like to take the unconventional paths and show us something different. I'll tune in for S3.
This is a really good drama, the 2 main leads help each other develop, Kyung Sook, the attorney candidate has…
Same, I love Kyung-sook and Do-hee's friendship. Completely at odds with one another to potential lifelong best friends. I love a good friendship theme.
Loved the drama it deserves more attention maybe it's heavy economic centric part makes it little hard to understand…
I agree on the romance. I never saw this chemistry everyone speaks of, not for Eugene nor Yi-heon. I didn't need the romance plot so I'm fine if it goes nowhere. But I did enjoy watching Eugene the most on this front. I feel like his face conveyed so much with no words that he became intriguing to watch from the moment he was introduced to Hye-joon.
I'm half way through but Eugene nails that awestruck, "magnetically attracted to you for no explainable reason" look. Most actors either look blank but intense or give "deer caught in headlights." His was a perfect balance of "my interest is piqued and I'm soaking it in" and "I must remain subtle." I haven't seen a good facial read in a while. He'd do well in a romance drama. I should look him up.
The reviews online are quite accurate. The acting by the casts is great. It is thrilling enough to watch, but…
I think the fickleness of the general public is part of the point. Citizens are so easily swayed by optics and have short memory banks. You only need to say or do one wrong thing for people to turn against you because they lack critical thinking skills and never realize that politicians are battling each other, the corporate elite, conflicting constituencies, as well as their own goals and morals. I'm not saying this to paint them in a sympathetic light but rather acknowledge the reality. At best, you'll get a politician with good intentions but poor or inconsistent execution because they're battling too many foes and inconveniences. At worst, you get the same greedy, selfish bastards who are there to get theirs and tell everyone else to fuck off.
100% agree. I dislike dramas that end very cookie cutter. I don't need a happy ending, nor do I need a morally righteous one. I'm totally fine with unhappy endings, fine with grey morals, fine with there being losers and tragedies. Why? Because that's real life.
These are my favorite dramas because I find them thought-provoking with lessons that could and should be applied to our real lives. It is incredibly difficult to be a leader, especially the leader of an entire nation. You are never going to be perfect because somewhere along the line you will piss somebody off and become the "worst" to them.
It is unrealistic to expect that dirty players can only be handled by clean tactics, just like you said. You have to be a mad dog to stop another mad dog sometimes. But it is more satisfying to ACKNOWLEDGE that fact, than ignore it or come up with some convoluted plot twist to make the anti-hero look infallible in the end. I hate that because a true moral character would also judge themselves against those same morals! Not find justifications for why they get to suspend them. That just makes them no different than the villains. If anything it makes the villains look better because they're honest about being the bad guys.
They didnt have to put the ml as such a horrible person..got turned off at that point...
Him being a bad guy was one of the central points of the series: everyone pretends they'll defend victims until the perp is someone you refuse to believe.
The nicest, kindest, sweetest looking man can still have the capacity to do major harm. And he, like every other rapist in the series, was a coward who thought they could run away from punishment. JD is only "different" in that he thought he deserved to decide his own "atonement" making him arrogant asshole (like he himself admitted) who could side step his punishment.
Making him the ultimate villain is exactly the point because it is the only way for your disbelief to hit as hard as it did and make you question: why does everyone default to protecting the perp and dismissing/smearing the victim? It wouldn't be the same for any other character.
SA has rarely ever been just a stranger in the bushes. It is most often someone we know, someone we least expect to violate us. They target familiars because they are easy to confuse and easy to discredit.
what's the motive for living for 5 years with your rapist
I don't think you paid enough attention. YJ was already friends with HJ and living with her and JD. She had multiple scenes where she explained her actions/decisions post-rape. It isn't that hard to understand. You don't have to agree with her reasoning but it isn't hard to understand nor was it ignored by the writers.
OP; ETA: One of the major twists is the source for a lot of negative reviews and I'm certain many either dropped it or didn't really process what was happening. You MUST suspend your disbelief and take it at face value because a) story-wise, everything gets addressed by the end and b) it is applicable to real life and your disbelief IS EXACTLY THE POINT! Your reaction is needed to finally shatter the resistance to acknowledging the depths and complexity of human depravity in order for the world to change for the better. This writing choice is actually very purposeful. And it would never hit the same if it played out differently.
This is exactly why I'm hoping for an alternative, tragic ending rather than a cookie-cutter happy ending where things are neatly wrapped up. I'm a firm believer that not every story has a happy ending and I enjoy the creative liberties of artists who like to take the unconventional paths and show us something different. I'll tune in for S3.
These are my favorite dramas because I find them thought-provoking with lessons that could and should be applied to our real lives. It is incredibly difficult to be a leader, especially the leader of an entire nation. You are never going to be perfect because somewhere along the line you will piss somebody off and become the "worst" to them.
It is unrealistic to expect that dirty players can only be handled by clean tactics, just like you said. You have to be a mad dog to stop another mad dog sometimes. But it is more satisfying to ACKNOWLEDGE that fact, than ignore it or come up with some convoluted plot twist to make the anti-hero look infallible in the end. I hate that because a true moral character would also judge themselves against those same morals! Not find justifications for why they get to suspend them. That just makes them no different than the villains. If anything it makes the villains look better because they're honest about being the bad guys.
The nicest, kindest, sweetest looking man can still have the capacity to do major harm. And he, like every other rapist in the series, was a coward who thought they could run away from punishment. JD is only "different" in that he thought he deserved to decide his own "atonement" making him arrogant asshole (like he himself admitted) who could side step his punishment.
Making him the ultimate villain is exactly the point because it is the only way for your disbelief to hit as hard as it did and make you question: why does everyone default to protecting the perp and dismissing/smearing the victim? It wouldn't be the same for any other character.
SA has rarely ever been just a stranger in the bushes. It is most often someone we know, someone we least expect to violate us. They target familiars because they are easy to confuse and easy to discredit.