Wow, what an AMAZING show! Unlike many Kdramas, there were no ”filler episodes” trying to drag and stretch the story so it’ll fill the ”required” 16 episodes. Please future screenwriters and directors, make notes. This is how a story is written and directed. I didn’t want to skip a minute, unlike in many other dramas where you have your unnecessary evil competitor/ family memeber/ ex partner or what ever, with equally unnecessary lackluster secondary plot. I will inevitalby skip, skip, SKIP those and in the end have no idea what it was about and couldn’t care less.
The cast was INCREDIBLE! A strong female lead, who is loving, badass and complex human being. I am so sick of female leads whos only ”personality” traits are that they are kind, innocent and must be protected at all cost. So thank you Moon Chae Won, you are my favorite female lead in kdramas so far.
But the best performance is in my opinion was done spectacularly by Lee Joon Gi. For the first few episodes you might think, what’s all the hoopla that people are talking about, when it comes to this performance, but as further the story develops, his performance is so incredible that it made me want to cry my heart out, scream at the screen to make him stop draining my soul. He was the reason the series still lingers in my mind and I’m suffering from a major series-end hungover. I can’t watch anything else, as any other series of film will suffer in comparison.
This is the brilliance of Kdramas. They are a limited run, so the writer knows how the story will end (unfortunately not in all cases). This way they won't suffer from the same issue that plagues the American series, when a great premise and first season leads to lesser returns and the plots are watered down, untill a once great series will taper in to oblivion.
I’m conflicted. At the same time I am happy that Flower of Evil was a story that had a great beginning and a wonderful ending, but still... what am I supposed to do now, that it’s all over ?.
The cast was INCREDIBLE! A strong female lead, who is loving, badass and complex human being. I am so sick of female leads whos only ”personality” traits are that they are kind, innocent and must be protected at all cost. So thank you Moon Chae Won, you are my favorite female lead in kdramas so far.
But the best performance is in my opinion was done spectacularly by Lee Joon Gi. For the first few episodes you might think, what’s all the hoopla that people are talking about, when it comes to this performance, but as further the story develops, his performance is so incredible that it made me want to cry my heart out, scream at the screen to make him stop draining my soul. He was the reason the series still lingers in my mind and I’m suffering from a major series-end hungover. I can’t watch anything else, as any other series of film will suffer in comparison.
This is the brilliance of Kdramas. They are a limited run, so the writer knows how the story will end (unfortunately not in all cases). This way they won't suffer from the same issue that plagues the American series, when a great premise and first season leads to lesser returns and the plots are watered down, untill a once great series will taper in to oblivion.
I’m conflicted. At the same time I am happy that Flower of Evil was a story that had a great beginning and a wonderful ending, but still... what am I supposed to do now, that it’s all over ?.