So so good
Not only was this a great thriller but it was a wonderful touching love story.The acting, characters, casting (the young HyunSo and his father looked so like Lee Joon Gi), music, plot - all brilliant. All the ‘goodies’ were likeable and the villains were perfectly villainous.
The only niggle was that I’d like to have seen the whole ‘family’ eating together like HaeSo wanted.
Watch it if you haven’t. The only reason my rewatch value isn’t 10 is because I have so much other stuff to watch and won’t have time to watch again😆
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Way too short
I never thought I say a kdrama was too short. They do have a tendency to needlessly drag but this was pulled at a sprint that got confusing, and really really needed fleshing out.The idea was great, the cast was enticing, the action and fight scenes in the first episode were good.
Up to episode 5 the back story was hopeful and the present time seemed like it would develop nicely. However, I had to look up who half the characters represented, I didn’t understand why they had the powers they had, and the back story was patchy.
Episode 5 then really confused me, after the credits the girls are camping, we’re told that the boys are in another country. Mirr has a vision of them all injured, the title page comes on and suddenly they’re all mid fight!!!! Some at their headquarters, some in the market. And from then on it was rushed and anticlimactic.
They went on about the awesome dragon power of Mirr, the antagonist wanted her power to be all powerful, yet she did nothing. She was like a simping, feeble lead in a bad melodrama. Her supposed power was never ever apparent.
The other angels were not utilised enough and Ogwi was an almost entirely pointless character.
It had so much potential; an episode dedicated to each angel would have been amazing, a closer look at their relationships with each other, including the dead ones, having it be a procedural ‘catch the baddies’ type show for the first half and then - characters cemented, relationships established, back stories explained - the demons return and they get their powers back to fight them again. But no…
And the dead ones coming back to them would have been more poignant had these things been shown and developed. But it was just meh…no peril because I didn’t really care. And the others coming back didn’t make sense nor was it moving.
The whole thing was quite disjointed - especially episode 5.
Just could have been so much better.
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It was nice
There is so much wrong with this show.But the good: Moon GaYoung was brilliant - she did emotional well, she did silly well and her comedic timing had me laughing out loud at times. She was wonderful. I loved all the friends even SooJin, especially SooJin in fact until she did what she did, but even then…it’s understandable. The music was good. I loved the sister’s storyline and how straightforward she was and JuGyeong’s dad was adorable.
But all in all 3 words, or 3 syllables, made it for me -
Hwang InYeop❤️
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Went in for the cast came out in awe
I love Red Velvet. I love Pentagon (particularly Hongseok) so this was a must.Honestly, I wasn’t expecting much. But my goodness what an amazing drama.
One of the best I’ve watched, western or eastern.
The acting was brilliant, the story was so well thought out - convoluted? - a little bit, but that’s kdramas for you, it was just so good.
Because the episodes were short I watched it in one ‘first day off in a long time’ sitting; and what a fantastic use of my day.
Absolutely brilliant.
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