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Joo-won, your husband misses you.
For a show with a great potential like this, i was kinda dissapointed. It started out pretty good, the suspense, distrust between main characters, finding out who's the killer.
The middle half though, after identifying one of the killers....dragged out pretty badly.
If only they've given more screentime to Joo-won and Dong-sik, instead of trying to share it equally between other, secondary characters, it wouldn't been so bad. But instead, what i got was boring characters i didn't care about chewing the same sentences over and over again. Those politicians, wannabe puppeteer manipulators, felt as bland as a piece of paper compared to the main serial killer. Watching them waste precious air over and over again almost made me snooze in the middle of every episode starting from the eight one.
But regardless, the final two to three episodes were pretty good. The focus shifted onto the main characters once again, as if they tried to fit all of the plot holes and the rest of the plot into the last three hours. Honestly, i wish there were less episodes, maybe then plot wouldn't feel so draggy. The chemistry between main characters and their charismatic allies is the only thing that saved this show.
And really, there's a lot of negative things that i can say about....pretty much everything, but there's two phenomenal points that i can't criticise: 1) Music 2) Acting
Even when i didn't care about the characters, or found them boring, i could tell that every actress and actor put their whole souls into their roles. The slow build between Shin Ha-kyun and Yeo Jin-goo's characters is mwah, chef's kiss. THE slow burn that ever slow burned, as my loml would put it. You can feel the loving touch of a woman in this show.
Music is just....no notes. You can feel the atmosphere without anyone saying a word, and it WILL touch your soul.
Did i enjoy watching it? Even with all the negatives, yeah, i did. Is it rewatchable? If you can put yourself through the torture of repeatable situations and scenes, then yes, but i can't. Maybe later. Maybe in a year or so, two, even. Maybe i will watch the first eight episodes and the two last ones, then.
The middle half though, after identifying one of the killers....dragged out pretty badly.
If only they've given more screentime to Joo-won and Dong-sik, instead of trying to share it equally between other, secondary characters, it wouldn't been so bad. But instead, what i got was boring characters i didn't care about chewing the same sentences over and over again. Those politicians, wannabe puppeteer manipulators, felt as bland as a piece of paper compared to the main serial killer. Watching them waste precious air over and over again almost made me snooze in the middle of every episode starting from the eight one.
But regardless, the final two to three episodes were pretty good. The focus shifted onto the main characters once again, as if they tried to fit all of the plot holes and the rest of the plot into the last three hours. Honestly, i wish there were less episodes, maybe then plot wouldn't feel so draggy. The chemistry between main characters and their charismatic allies is the only thing that saved this show.
And really, there's a lot of negative things that i can say about....pretty much everything, but there's two phenomenal points that i can't criticise: 1) Music 2) Acting
Even when i didn't care about the characters, or found them boring, i could tell that every actress and actor put their whole souls into their roles. The slow build between Shin Ha-kyun and Yeo Jin-goo's characters is mwah, chef's kiss. THE slow burn that ever slow burned, as my loml would put it. You can feel the loving touch of a woman in this show.
Music is just....no notes. You can feel the atmosphere without anyone saying a word, and it WILL touch your soul.
Did i enjoy watching it? Even with all the negatives, yeah, i did. Is it rewatchable? If you can put yourself through the torture of repeatable situations and scenes, then yes, but i can't. Maybe later. Maybe in a year or so, two, even. Maybe i will watch the first eight episodes and the two last ones, then.
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