About your first point, i don't think is bad writting that Suk Min is crying at his son's funeral. What that wanted…
Yeah, I see your point. To me, the tears seem out of place in the first place. I just didn‘t get to see enough of his character to accept his reaction either as genuine or a big fake display of fatherly love in order to fool everyone around him. He wasn‘t portrayed as a good two-faced manipulator who fools everyone around him into believing his created persona. Until that point, we only got to see bits and pieces of a man who wanted to inherit his mother‘s business empire, who has a cold relationship with his wife, an unusual relationship with his son, and who has killed a person before. He is shown as a cold, cruel, intimidating, and uncharismatic person, not as a good liar, or two-faced manipulator/actor. I don‘t believe a man like that would cry during his son‘s funeral, it would be more believable, to me, if he was stone-faced the whole time. He doesn‘t have enough screen time/other types of characterization to make a good vision of his character. Given the information from the first 6-8 episodes (wants to take over the company, has a cold relationship with his wife, has an unusually controlling relationship with his son, has killed a person before) we can speculate a lot. Maybe he‘s a traumatized man because he has killed somebody trying to help his mother. Maybe his wife has something to do with the murder and he is covering for her. I‘m just saying whatever now, but it still is a problem that I can be so far away from his actual characterization because there was lots of empty space around his character. Then comes episode 9 and hits us in the face with ‘Hey, do you want this villain reveal? Enjoy, it‘s on the house‘. Of course, now we know what is going on and who he is. I just wanted more because I know these writers can do it. The perfect example of a psychopathic man trying to take over his parent‘s business empire and eliminate his rival was the CEO of Taekang group Park Tae-Woo from ‘Death‘s Game‘ (also the charismatic and two-faced villain from Vincenzo portrayed by Taec-Yeon). Tae-Woo‘s characterization was perfect, we were shown how he interacts with other people, how he manipulates and plays them, and how he views ordinary people unrelated to his business. We don‘t get to see any of that with Noh Seok-Min. He ordered a hit on Do-Hee, murdered his accomplice, forced his son to kill Do-Hee to prove himself to him, he physically abused his wife and son. But most of these actions were done behind the scenes, or we were shown those actions through flashbacks as dramatic reveals/explanations. Didn‘t these scenes deserve dedicated spaces within the episodes? Also, I know that his son was his victim, I was just being vague due to spoilers and this review being out here in the open before the series ended. But yeah, I should pop in and edit that bit. It‘s nice to discuss though.
It's my first time discussing an ongoing drama, I'm always too late by a few months-years to jump in and enjoy with the early folks, it's fun :D
He doesn‘t have enough screen time/other types of characterization to make a good vision of his character. Given the information from the first 6-8 episodes (wants to take over the company, has a cold relationship with his wife, has an unusually controlling relationship with his son, has killed a person before) we can speculate a lot. Maybe he‘s a traumatized man because he has killed somebody trying to help his mother. Maybe his wife has something to do with the murder and he is covering for her. I‘m just saying whatever now, but it still is a problem that I can be so far away from his actual characterization because there was lots of empty space around his character. Then comes episode 9 and hits us in the face with ‘Hey, do you want this villain reveal? Enjoy, it‘s on the house‘. Of course, now we know what is going on and who he is. I just wanted more because I know these writers can do it.
The perfect example of a psychopathic man trying to take over his parent‘s business empire and eliminate his rival was the CEO of Taekang group Park Tae-Woo from ‘Death‘s Game‘ (also the charismatic and two-faced villain from Vincenzo portrayed by Taec-Yeon). Tae-Woo‘s characterization was perfect, we were shown how he interacts with other people, how he manipulates and plays them, and how he views ordinary people unrelated to his business. We don‘t get to see any of that with Noh Seok-Min. He ordered a hit on Do-Hee, murdered his accomplice, forced his son to kill Do-Hee to prove himself to him, he physically abused his wife and son. But most of these actions were done behind the scenes, or we were shown those actions through flashbacks as dramatic reveals/explanations. Didn‘t these scenes deserve dedicated spaces within the episodes?
Also, I know that his son was his victim, I was just being vague due to spoilers and this review being out here in the open before the series ended. But yeah, I should pop in and edit that bit. It‘s nice to discuss though.