the most realistic child rape scenes i've seen in a movie
yeah really. Like, how did these child actors cope with this. Also it's not necessary to see this to imagine how terrible it was. I'm also worried that paedophiles would LOVE this movie and the scenes are included for titillation rather than horror.
Ok watched the first episode and it was a huge disappointment. A drama about terminal illness should be about…
haha! Ji Soo is pretty good, but it's not worth sifting through a bad drama just for one actor - and Ji Soo is in everything that opens and shuts these days so there are plenty of other options. :)
Ok watched the first episode and it was a huge disappointment. A drama about terminal illness should be about…
I feel the same way. I was thinking of adding this to my PTW list but then read your comment, particularly "As if cancer is not bad enough , they wanna add bad family bad in laws bad career bad day" and "I want a strong female lead that doesn't take shit from anyone" so I think I'll skip this one. thanks for the heads up.
Strong female leads always make for a better story for example, Healer, Faith, Signal, the "Reply" series, Coffee Prince, Six Flying Dragons. I think there's enough evidence that people actually prefer this dynamic.
Also, dramas where there are 801 tragedies all happening one after another become tiresome and I stop caring at all about anyone when this happens - trauma fatigue.
Great article. Really funny and so true. So many of these tropes are enjoyable to watch in a K-drama but if they happened IRL you'd totally call the police. You captured them all so well.
So there's no character tropes for women, or are there just no women characters, or did you just not look at women…
yes i understand these are character types. How about "hardworking girl" "scary mother in law" "Kind younger sister" "Fiercely Independent older woman" "Undermining psychopathic man chaser" there's just a few.
So we're to believed that she never dated anyone all those years until they met again?That was the most unrealistic…
You're so right about this. the whole thing broke my heart. the fact that her husband didn't even try to understand her, her motivations or her hurts, just ended things. I was so angry of the way everyone treated poor Joon. not one person (well maybe min gi) is nice to him, ever. he's always an afterthought.
I liked this drama but I did get tired of LJH facial expression. He looked so much like Kang Ji Hwan.
he's pretty much the only reason I rated this 8.5 instead of 9.5, I might have given my first 10 if they'd cast a different actor in the role.. I wished he'd wipe that face off his head. you know, that same expression he had the whole way through. so bland.
"with the exception of 1 actor (Jeong Dong-Hwan) who really was taking the drama down. He practically has 2 face expression, and both are too over the top to suit any of his scenes." I completely agree. I wish they'd stop casting him.
I just finished watching this and I completely agree with you (although I've given it a 7 not a 10 - I rate quite harshly) How good was Yook Sung Jae!?!?! Officer Park Woo Jae is now up there in my favourite characters, also the Young Lady - what a fabulous part. It must have been great to play him. I also agree with you about Moon Geun Young, I thought she played the part perfectly, she's so calm, there's no histrionics at all, which is quite common with Korean actresses in dramatic parts. And like you I had heaps of different suspects at different times. I thought this show was really great at keeping you in suspense.
It's funny isn't it? It's kinda like JKS has to do 2-4 episodes of goofy overacting before he settles down and then once he does settle down, he's really, really, excellent. they should just lie to him and fake film 4 fake episodes of everything. Also the last episode...meh. it was really frustrating. it really annoys me when shows just suddenly stop and then try to give each character a 2 minute wrap up - from out of nowhere, it just feels like lazy storytelling.
Strong female leads always make for a better story for example, Healer, Faith, Signal, the "Reply" series, Coffee Prince, Six Flying Dragons. I think there's enough evidence that people actually prefer this dynamic.
Also, dramas where there are 801 tragedies all happening one after another become tiresome and I stop caring at all about anyone when this happens - trauma fatigue.